A Night Bird Sings
...When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose of a somnambulist
I walked up and...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Sylvia Stays Sedentary
...Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority
Sometimes summarizing situations so subtilely*,
Suddenly somnambulistic, she slips silently
Sensing some sarcastic silliness, soon se...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, fun, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Our Burden
...Humanities burden
Something nihilistic is churning on my mind what if strife is embedded in our psyche
normality is war punctuated by peace; the peace is prosperous but wallowing in
the softne...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, abuse, angel, animal,
Form: Blank verse
Not So Friendly Discussions
...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio b...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
To My Anonymous Lover
... Somewhere in a strange land
An unknown heart throbs for me
Etching an amorous graffiti
On the blank walls of my mind
Where ever I am, I feel a pair of eyes
Fondly surveying and sca...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, devotion, friend, romance, valentines
Form: Free verse
Marat and Charlotte
...(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)
Actors:
Jean-Paul Marat;
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.
Act 1. A tavern. Two philo...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, death, life, love,
Form: Blank verse
An Half-Buried Corncob
...Calling and hooting
to the wind tiptoeing
along the terrified face
of the wriggling curtain
looking through the window
at the trees and their dark ghosts
casted upon the blood of
the moon o'er...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Summer
...Such summer days as these are merry bright,
and altogether they portend good times.
Sol shortens nights, again extends the light,
the time is right for jesters bold and mimes.
Relax and take your...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Daytime Somnambulism
...Daytime Somnambulism
How haunting the loss
When one squanders consciousness
Soul to surface
Dreams of dances unrealized
Oh how tempting
This somnambulistic space we possess
Where unlived experience...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Doll House
...Behind the scaled-down images there lurk
the scaled down dreams of future lives-- perhaps
of incarnations silently recalled
by little girls with vision far less blind
than little boys, who would fors...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, fantasy, me,
Form: Free verse
Pain and Somnambulism
...Pain is a solitary shaft of sunlight
piercing the fathomless depths of a wishing well,
reflected off the tin-can shards in dark prismatic waters,
refracted spears of realisation and the blinding t...
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Categories:
somnambulistic, introspection, life, loss, teen,
Form: Blank verse