She Said
...You
Have Made
Life
So Much
Better...
She Said.
In Ways
You Can
Never...
Imagine.
***
In Leaves
Ochre-
Winter-Green-
Scarlet...
Distorted
By
Shimmering
Rain.
***
...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, boxing day , life,
Form: Free verse
Too Silly For Words
...I wanted to age graciously,
Serene, ladylike and wise,
But I get confused and muddled
And I've come to realise
Things happen to me,
That takes me by surprise
Everything unravels before
My fa...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Cosmos
...Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens
I have been calling you
Calling you back into my consciousness
My heart
My soul...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, beauty, blessing, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When Love Let Me Down
...Was it Mercury in retrograde,
Or the moon in Capricorn?
Did my horoscope predict this fate?
Was it destined the day I was born?
When love let me down
I was walking the track
With a train comi...
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Categories:
spread eagle, allegory, divorce,
Form: Lyric
Question Mark Tale
...Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy.
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, ...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Be That Child Again
...
oh, how I loved my mother's garden
where I would run and play all day
and in the nearby forest explore with father.
often, I would lay spread-eagle on the grass
and sometimes I wo...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, childhood, memory,
Form: Verse
Ask For a Visitation Dream
...People go along in their life and then bam. Dead. Deceased. Kaput.
Survivors sit by a headstone and talk to them. I am not kidding!
They are not in there, folks.
Their body is nothing. The soul is...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, death, family,
Form: Free verse
What Is She Doing Here
...What’s she doing here
shes a missouri opossum
spread out on a tree
started yesterday
my grandchild said whats that
had to look up
she was spread eagle
against the bark of a tree
I had to ...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, animal,
Form: Senryu
Ice Nine Part 1 Warning
...ICE NINE
The sourceling of anti-matter,
morphed in, a slithering form.
From Darkness's anteroom chamber-
The wormhole, in escape-
The place where disobedience was born.
A
S
p
i...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, abortion, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Days Long Departed
...
I recall days long departed when I was just a kid
oh, how I loved mother's garden
I would run in the sun and play all day
down paths now vanished . . .
I would lay spread-eagle on the ...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Skating For Gold
...Acing awesome atomic axel jumps
Baffling backflips and butterfly jumps
Completing camel spins and cross strokes
Dance jumps, dance lifts and death spirals
Eclipsing extensions and edge jumping
F...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, devotion, inspirational, motivation, passion,
Form: ABC
Should I Not Be Found Alive
...Sty all your bodied waters
And libelous pretensions.
Hang leather headed juries
Beside some tethered eddies.
Drown me down
In new baptismal rivers.
Spread eagle me upon
Some granite black ou...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, assonance, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Vegas *****
...she was born in a gutter her mother was a whore
selling junk in her trunk in back of the store
she grew up on the street
no shoes for her feet
over time although many years had passed she had...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, art,
Form: Free verse
Pom Pom Mountain
...We drank cheap beer in a rusted out shed.
Buzzing before our 8:00AM English class.
Trying to be cool- to fit with the "Ins."
Instead, were becoming the wobbling outcasts.
Spinning further out fro...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, cute, pain, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Victim Or Predator
...He had watched her for two years
patiently waiting for her to grow up.
He knew all her movements, what
made her laugh, all of her moods.
Soon now it would be time, their time
together. She wou...
...
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Categories:
spread eagle, abuse, child abuse, death,
Form: Epic
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