Why Am I?
...In the stillness of dawn, a primal question awakens,
A whisper that dances, a quest that never dampens.
On the blank parchment with lines, I lay my thoughts bare,
Each stroke of the pen, a t...
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Categories:
spacing, i am, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
In The Waiting Womb Thereof
...In The Waiting Womb Thereof
(Apropos Of Poetic Onement)
Thanks for being here with me
in the waiting time of the birthing
flow from the poetic womb thereof:
We mind-pregnant poets have all ...
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Categories:
spacing, allegory, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
...Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially ...
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Categories:
spacing, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion,
Form: Free verse
point of view
...
it is all about perspective I believe
not that my faith is big enough yet
but a short while ago which
seems like an eternity right now
my problems seemed as large
as I could have ever imagined...
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Categories:
spacing, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
ORGANIC verbal - sketch
...
words
emerge organically
as blossom
from
inspiration
&
embrace
a
natural
placement
to
visually
evolve
into
verse
in
a harmonious
dance
twixt content
& form
unfurling
as...
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Categories:
spacing, art, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
Wraith, Geist, or Wrath of the Failure
...Seems my handwriting will never improve,
Yearlong efforts, letters still oblong.
Not quite right, but we pretend it’s not all bad,
I fixate on each line, a prerequisite approach.
So next and then...
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Categories:
spacing, anger, change, conflict, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Glue
...Before there was light
before there was sound
Gravity wandered
the universe round
Plotting the orbits
of things still to come
Spacing the essence
of all zero-sum
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024) ...
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Categories:
spacing, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A Flock of Startled Birds
...A Flock of Startled Birds
He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His leather shoes burnished to a mirror-li...
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Categories:
spacing, depression, memorial, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
As we depart for the realm of dreams, embraced by the night
...As we depart for the realm of dreams, embraced by the night,
We find ourselves in that world where the unknown is written on every card.
A vast world, without borders, where our souls dance in flig...
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Categories:
spacing, dream,
Form: Free verse
Spacing Out To Music
...Finally music
Magically settles nerves.
Sounds all the slower.
Feelings slowly overtake
My innermost mind's own core....
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Categories:
spacing, music, psychological,
Form: Tanka
My Poems Write Themselves
...words give a lively dance
not staying on the lines of the paper
or in left to right order
or even down the page order
letters are flinging onto the page in every direction
I just saw a crazed T ...
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Categories:
spacing, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
My Poems Write Themselves
...words give a lively dance
not staying on the lines of the paper
or in left to right order
or even down the page order
letters are flinging onto the page in every direction
I just saw a crazed T ...
...
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Categories:
spacing, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Flowing Downstream Without Levees Or Windbreaks
...some poems ask to be naked
they have no use at all
for punctuation
not even for an en dash
an em dash nor hyphen
they play with a flowing grammar
that must be read like water
or paddled th...
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Categories:
spacing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ee, I Love You
...
"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . )"
By_ E.E. Cummings(1894-1962)
I ...
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Categories:
spacing, poets,
Form: Free verse
Ready Sack Letter of a School
...In her school The Readily Received:
Staff didn’t let herself be deceived
By flashed smiles finer than “How are you?”
“Last-minute sack letter always slew!”
A Good Montessori’s Love letter
Teach...
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Categories:
spacing, education, evil, school, women,
Form: Rhyme
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