Rattling Thoughts
...It is night's first light — evening
The world thinks through my mind
The echoes of a bittersweet day whisper
My ears twitch, my heart pricks
A pressed edge leans forward
Shouldering the office...
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Categories:
stammerer, anxiety, depression, endurance, fate,
Form: Free verse
Poets Are Paupers
...Mother told a story yesterday
of how poets die in black penury
she said I won't be a pretty poet
as my dreams dance on my ink
"Poets are mirror of deceit and pain
craving beyond the debris of ...
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Categories:
stammerer, art, career, depression, desire,
Form: Ballad
Mistake
...Mistake;one act we always try to avoid because mummy and daddy said so
Mistake; one part of ourselves we don't like to show others because we think it's the only part they will know
Mistake; that s...
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Categories:
stammerer, abuse, bible, character, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
No One's Perfect
...No one’s perfect
No one’s is angelic
Beautiful in body
but filthy in heart
Fluent in speech yet,
stammerer in action
Metallic in body but
a desert in morals
Shining star in sport
yet a t...
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Categories:
stammerer, allusion, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Epiphany: a Poet In Love
...Did Shakespeare ever fall in love?
A rose by any other name would
stink as sweet!
What would Y'eshua say if indeed
Magdalene was his favorite disciple?
What miracles would he impress her
wit...
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Categories:
stammerer, love
Form: Blank verse
The Stammerer
...The prison cell has us held
with a power of it's own
no matter what we do
speak fast or slow we remain alone.
Even in spells of some fluency
it comes and attacks from the back
taking us in our comp...
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Categories:
stammerer, life, lonely, sad, self,
Form: Rhyme
Difficulty Isn'T Impossibility
...How steep is the slope in front of you
that you see it practically impossible to climb?
How wide is this Ocean
which seem insane to cross over?
Brace up, put your mind together
and just ...
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Categories:
stammerer, art, mystery,
Form: Imagism
Lightning Haiku's
...Brief jagged sky torch
Never permanent in sky
Coming and going.
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Flashing stammerer
Strong voice like bomb blast
Rainy days colleague.
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Categories:
stammerer, philosophy
Form: Haiku