ALLUSIONS OF A VANISHED NOW
...ALLUSIONS OF A VANISHED NOW*
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stainless-steel womb
welded shut,
buried beneath the oak's gnarled roots,
remnants given to the earth.
allusions o...
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Categories:
stainless, 12th grade, history, time,
Form: Free verse
Dweller of our heart
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“The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun.” — Unseeking Seeker
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At the beginning—
before Satan lost his place in heaven,
Man h...
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Categories:
stainless, extended metaphor, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Can you hear me now?
...Amtrak with equipment’s endowed
Each car comes with stainless steel shroud
Yet my quiet ride
Was sadly denied
By announcement volumes too loud...
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Categories:
stainless, travel,
Form: Limerick
Spiritual possession
...Through an opal window I saw a cloud,
changing colors from blue to orange to red,
like a burning fire.
I was swept off my feet,
floating on a bridge between this world and the next.
My body no...
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Categories:
stainless, fantasy, heaven, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse
have you ever
...Have you ever tried choking? He asked nonchalantly.
“No,” she said. *with a wrinkled nose of disapproval*
“Want to try it?” *His approach couldn't hide his excitement*
“Ok,” she said, absent mi...
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Categories:
stainless, care, emotions, health, humor,
Form: Free verse
Pate A Choux De la pointe
...Using a fruit and veggie jucier
juice
1 small onion
2 clove of garlic
3 medium cucumber
1/2 cup of apple
1/2 lemon
1 Tablesoon of fresh rosemary
measure 1 cup
add to
1 cup of milk
makes 2...
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Categories:
stainless, food, music, relationship,
Form: Ballade
Final Moments
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Walking down stark white corridors, the stench of bleach burns my nostrils.
With every step, I can feel sorrow lump in my quivering throat.
Looking down at the wrinkles on my shirt, I quickly...
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Categories:
stainless, angst, care, heartbroken, i
Form: Other
I AM
...Jah
God above all gods
Name, itself, baes the staff and rod
As all creation revers His name
Deeming the name holy and perfect without stain!
Emblematic Name extends comfort and security
Grantin...
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Categories:
stainless, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Warm smiles all around
...You and your nameless vows
Shrouded in a fog
under a snowy cliff
Cut and dissolved
under the fog
shrouded in a blanket of snow
Stainless white
Clothes of deceit
Wed to a hanging fruit
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Categories:
stainless, seasons, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
King of Clowns
...You laughed too hard in 1996/
Thought I'd trip and stay down for kicks/
But I climbed back up, twice the size/
Now I shred, watch the sparks fly/
My drummer joked, said guitars are lame/
Left hi...
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Categories:
stainless, career, cool, funny, guitar,
Form: Free verse
I Know Why
...I know why you follow him.
Dolls can never admit a rough and tumble
bad boy is what they want. In your stainless
steel world? There is no room for graffiti.
It simply isn’t okay for someth...
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Categories:
stainless, emotions, feelings, social,
Form: Free verse
Dance of Death
...Zenith ~
a fatal lie written in forged gold,
but to read the bruised ballads I’ve bled
upon the palette of pixelated peridots
in ominous silence,
must I speak the
romanticized rhymes of funeral...
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Categories:
stainless, dance, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
everybody's dying
...everybody’s dying
everybody’s dying, everybody’s dying
in this world we call insane
and nobody knows it,
‘cause it’s part of the game
and there is no resurrection
once ...
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Categories:
stainless, betrayal, bible, christian, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
labs
...(a university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks...
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Categories:
stainless, angst, career, environment, humor,
Form: Free verse
Knees
...Pursuing springtime walking sprees
beside our dog, beneath the trees,
I oft detected some unease
amongst the birds and buzzing bees
as echoed by flat monodies
of clicking, clacking, knocking kne...
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Categories:
stainless, body, health,
Form: Rhyme
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