Poet’s Exile
...A ruinous filth spills onto the page
Like sap from a trees rotting heart
Hands covered in black
The speaker of my memories
Smooth and razor thin
An emissary of ink
I envy the pen and it’s mela...
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Categories:
spiels, pain, writing,
Form: Free verse
Fall Dreaming
...Written: October 28, 2023
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Autumn shrubs gracefully fall to the ground.
Crimson love dips; its bright sparkle is around.
Life ...
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Categories:
spiels, analogy, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Steel Blades
...6/21/22
"Steel Blades"
All these spiels and games
Yet another shady deal made
We do not feel the same
Chop you up with steel blades
Your body left in the field decays
I've no interest in start...
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Categories:
spiels, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Close Encounters of the Best Kind
...*Image of Winners of Connecting by Pixabay
Close Encounters of the Best Kind
Anon celebrations plumb us adjusts,
preceding months were more compatible,
familial presence friends s...
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Categories:
spiels, appreciation, christmas, family, happiness,
Form: Dizain
Such Disarray
...The coffee pot is on the blink,
one thing I don’t have is time to think.
It snowed last night and I’ve checked my email,
however, sadly, it’s as slow as a snail.
I need to know if the ...
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Categories:
spiels, fun, humor, life, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Unified Theories In Back Yards
...Unified Theories in Back Yards
Which realm do I write from today,
Which abode in my mind where my thoughts lay,
Which thoughts of mine do I project
To all who read these lines?
I can discuss...
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Categories:
spiels, science,
Form: Free verse
Does What Reveals Appeals
...Does What Reveals Appeals
There may be many things this reveals,
When more things to you always appeals;
From Trump receive;
We will never believe;
Sounds like some more of what Trump spi...
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Categories:
spiels, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
One Hard Pea
...“She’s let me down again Clare Cox” the ‘missus’ fumed about her wayward aid.
Now with the job to do upon her own. For other arrangements have been made.
“You’re helping me today” she pointed “And ...
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Categories:
spiels, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Tbt
...Room full of people, how could I be lonely?
These days it's harder than ever to find a true homie
I'm trying to keep a grip but I'm losing it slowly
Filling our voids with mediums of instant gra...
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Categories:
spiels, addiction, computer, corruption, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Percolating
...I always like it creamy, and a bit zestful
On the pallet with robusta flavor---
Yet, totally unsweetened for now
When daylight gulps in an ache; my coffee
Becomes bitter, nipping my tongue
Li...
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Categories:
spiels, conflict, drink, goodbye,
Form: Verse
Looking At Nothing
...Blond in a corner
Scab-faced - face-chewer
Insidious narcissist
Asseverates feigns for empathy
Pontificates spiels on sobriety
The carpet stained – the smell of sewer
A seventy dollar ca...
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Categories:
spiels, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Verse
What Makes You Tick
...Its the simple things in life that turn my wheels
a stroll over the moors, I don't need newsreels
The beauty of the full moon to my heart appeals
sounds of the night, I hear high pitched squeals
No...
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Categories:
spiels, life,
Form: Couplet
I'Ll Burn Your Name Into the City
...(Inspired by Mathew Atchley of Hot Spot Studio's "The Joker and the Thief" a drawing on the marriage of the Joker and Harley Quinn.)
Lost in memories of padded walls
Mind-numbing pills and
Psycho-b...
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Categories:
spiels, abuse, addiction, i love
Form: Free verse
Soup Safari
...SOUP SAFARI
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here I am in NYC...packing after a safari –theme night party
with Soup members two nights ago, filled with awed revelry.
shrieks whistling on linked a...
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Categories:
spiels, happiness, holiday, people
Form: Couplet
~ (~) ~ the Things of These ~ (~) ~(Part #1 of 6) ~ (~) ~
... It is those things such as these-yes... .
Like remaining on mute because your staying in tune with the close
captioning of the news set up in the picture in picture TV on the big screen...
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Categories:
spiels, inspirationalhumorous, old, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
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