Long Drive from Yesterday
...The hours have been driving me,
miles upon miles have sunk the sky,
Florida now hangs from distant cypress trees.
I almost miss the exit ramp,
This kind of waking and sleeping
is controlled by...
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Categories:
somnambulant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before
...I did not sleep that night,
the hotel room was already taking on
the chill ambience, smell, and sounds
of an intensive care unit.
Occasional distant laughter
in a corridor where people are car...
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Categories:
somnambulant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
sleep paralysis
...
one half’s an arc the other a strobe ~ light becomes your coagulant
signals and synapses firing off sparks ~ try open eyes but you can’t
all bound together forming a dream ~ welded to the s...
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Categories:
somnambulant, deep, dream, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Coco Tabletop and Grill
...walk the urban sprawl,
where skyscrapers pierce the sky
cities bleeding_assoc.
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee,
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter,
within the tumul...
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Categories:
somnambulant, environment, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Free verse
I stand proud with pride
...I stand proud with pride...
exuding suave debonair air
plus head and shoulders taller
(than the empire state building -
hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?)
since September eleventh
two thous...
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Categories:
somnambulant, adventure, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Free verse
there are always a few
...There are always a few
Troublesome “tickl-ings “
Daringly darting
In somnambulant slumber
Shape shifting shadows
Mocking the moonlight
Creeping through the crevasses
Of literary limitation
We...
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Categories:
somnambulant, fun, word play, words,
Form: Alliteration
Awkwardly Realistic
...The arboretum is quiet today.
It is early,
yet too late
to spot a somnambulant space alien
emerging from the thorny bushes.
Do you believe?
I have seen the odd-looking sparrows,
with their r...
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Categories:
somnambulant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Formidable flourishing fiends
...Formidable flourishing fiends...
harangue since landing
yours truly immersed
in a dream-like
fiercesome state of war,
not quite a dream
can be described
as a "hypnagogic state"
whil...
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Categories:
somnambulant, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
An Elderly Man Reclines
...His wife dies.
You have seen it all before,
you can tell what will happen next.
He will recline in the home
that she has woven around him.
He will let the ivy
of their long years together
...
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Categories:
somnambulant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I am February
...Fierce am I, and fearless
Challenging the shades of winter
Taunting its dreaded demise
Mocking the shadow's prognostication
Tickling the timid hearts
Of somnambulant lovers
Arising to a chillin...
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Categories:
somnambulant, february,
Form: Free verse
Nauseating Buzz Feeding Frenzy At Local Atm
...Nauseating buzz feeding frenzy at local ATM
Fraught traumatized wordsmith
telephonic grand slam rent psyche asunder
witnessing helpless cannibalization,
hospitalization, victimization
concerni...
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Categories:
somnambulant, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
...Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of ...
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Categories:
somnambulant, absence, adventure, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Night Music
...Long nights
transcribe me into a clacking music.
Harpsichord bones and broken keys,
nailed to an out of time tune.
A somnambulant self-winding
pipe-organ, whistles
as it pushes moments arou...
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Categories:
somnambulant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Zomboid Creatures
...This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love.
— Patrick McGarth*
ZOMBOID CREATURES
no way out of the...
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Categories:
somnambulant, death,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
...Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly li...
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Categories:
somnambulant, angel, december, dream, good
Form: Rhyme
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