Doorstep
...I am the door she ran through;
Broken, off the hinges, jammed in place
I lie on the floor that once brushed off my shoulders
Unable to move as I stare at the ceiling
Watching her walk away as ...
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Categories:
splints, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Royal Rumble
...Characters in action
Talents in multiplication
Shapes and sizes of many version
Skills on display with tension
Over the top ropes one would gape
Under the ropes one can escape
Apron of thick ...
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Categories:
splints, character, color, creation, men,
Form: Other
Traditional-Modern Kitchen
...Reeds and dry mud walls,
Into whose crevices, weaving needles and knives are fixed.
Iron sheets of rust on top,
(The only modern feature!)
With leakages through which we can even visualize the su...
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Categories:
splints, africa,
Form: Free verse
This Only Tree
...Once a tree
That walked as man
Tasting breezes moved
In seed with currents
Tossed to churning seas
Branching footprints
Sinking upward
In a breath
Of stars and moon.
Time the poison po...
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Categories:
splints, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Decayed Faith
...When churches of honor decay
Mired in cynicism's wet glue
She splints the feet of hobbled faith
To believe as the unbroken do.
...
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Categories:
splints, loss, recovery from,
Form: Quatrain
Nuzzled
...Nuzzled in the splints of light
that turn to neon felt tipped butterfly mist
of the street light hugging night...
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Categories:
splints, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Only I, Have the Key
...
I open and close my stiff cold hands,
and look down at what my pen has spilled;
my hands ache from decades of writing,
my many pages are totally filled.
Electric jolts stab at my fing...
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Categories:
splints, bullying, hate, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Sold Out
...Since I saw you,
I've had this hope live in me.
That everything that isn't needed be gone.
The details of sales papers, shopping carts.
The ease of temptation.
Standing still.
To fill my cart...
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Categories:
splints, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
Weaving Protest Songs and Dances
...Robin Wall Kimmerer,
in Braiding Sweetgrass,
describes the first three woven rows
in process of making an ash basket.
The first Yang row of ecological root structure
is most impossibly conflic...
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Categories:
splints, analogy, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Shall This Cold Bring Only You To My Mind
...Shall this cold bring you only to my mind
Less I will not forgive it for disrupting the night
That you are in such untouchable distance is of prime
And that this cold shall make my passion cry
Th...
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Categories:
splints, art,
Form: Romanticism
A Body of Work
..."Be very still", the voice said
"I'll get the nails from between your toes".
"He still breathes", another voice.
A gentle move,
a hand laid at my back,
another at my neck.
"We are your ...
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Categories:
splints, abuse, child abuse, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Break
...Why do you want to leave me standing alone
the once happy home, now half the throne
we stood together through thick and thin
the beautiful duo, together forever
walks in the park, dancing after d...
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Categories:
splints, allusion, break up, emotions,
Form: Ballad
A Fisherman's Tale
...A Fisherman’s Tale
Out o’gloom, her pale siege comes to menace our humble dwell
I look to celeste fix, yet no stark smile to traverse me
So I grip my girl, now graceful, as she slides in churn...
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Categories:
splints, dark, devotion, goodbye, grief,
Form: Terzanelle
Entrepreneur
...In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before y...
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Categories:
splints, books, change, culture, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
One Thousand Tears To Their Steps
...Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS LAM HSI (ANDRESS)
When...the wind blows...the skies scatter...and the snowy caps
MELT!
When...two butterflies...FLY...THE HOWLING-WI...
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Categories:
splints, anniversary, beauty, i love
Form: Ballad
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