Journey on for the Moment
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if I could describe your soul it would be
clear mirror shattering forevermore
where pieces are jigsaw puzzles
not fitting, falling under oak table
stuck on persian carpet ex...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, allusion, change, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Silent Mission
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Glass shattered Saturday afternoon tea for S I L E N C E
holding steady raven momentum for its own r i p p i n g
fire from heartbeat slashes its void to tumble wounds of ...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Soul Sucker
...She was a vampire; we hung together for a while.
Not a drop of my blood dripped from her lips,
and yet, gradually my soul,
(that wise infant who has taken up
temporary residences in the hovel o...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
shattered n whole
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Like glass catching light
scatter across the sky
each shard a silver of history
a world once whole
now dispersed into the quiet
between afterthoughts
Time drips at its edge
sp...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Eidolon En Pointe
...Savvy silver vanity set howls
on the edge of an antique dresser;
The ballerina’s festooned curls
aglow in the mirror’s reflection;
On the edge of an antique dresser
an eidolon sits pointe sho...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, dance, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
In Search of Lost Meaning
...In Search of Lost Meaning
In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows weave their silent dance,
I drift through the labyrinth of existence, a whisper in the void,
A fleeting echo in the vast tap...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rue Saint-Honore
...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock
...We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock,
amid the shattered stained glass of desolate factories, where the echo of emptiness reverberates,
in...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Surreality of Girlish Dreams
...The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow
neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights
seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore
she adores the breeze adorned with gems
emeralds fly ...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Voyage
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Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest
Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust
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Categories:
spiderwebs, adventure, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Random Animal Haikus
...a small green gecko
smiling in the palapa
watching everything
arachnids calmly
weave intricate spiderwebs
waiting in shadows
a striped iguana
sunbathing on the smooth rocks
watching the...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Hoar Frost
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When the hoar frost spins,
spiderwebs of feathered ice,
the sun does not shine.
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Categories:
spiderwebs, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Accepting My Place
...In my place nobody longs to die
but they don’t care to live their “like this”
In my place there’s echoes of silent outcry
enduring deaths slow burning kiss
In my place shattered photographs
of...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, anxiety, conflict, death, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Forsaken Spiderwebs
...Our home was lit with autumn's spicy scent.
Now spent are the forms that had something to hold:
votive molds, photo frames, vases.... forsaken.
The form within my breast, too, is forsaken,
no l...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, autumn, divorce, for him,
Form: Tritina
Peace In the Nowhere
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"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant ...
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Categories:
spiderwebs, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative
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