if time can echo
...'What does the ticking of a melting clock sound like?'—overheard in Dalí
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A clock made from ice
lies on sun-scolded tiles—
the ticks go
slower,
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Categories:
steadier, art, death, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Difference
...childhood and old age,
in many ways are alike,
but with an antithetical difference.
when with time,
as children grow steadier in steps
and clearer in speech,
the old become,
stagg...
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Categories:
steadier, analogy, childhood, irony, old,
Form: Verse
Solitary Walk
...Solitary walk beneath a moonlit night sky.
Sparkling river reflects moonlight as I walk by.
Geese are flying in the clouds so high.
I also see the northern lights in the sky.
Not so solitary an...
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Categories:
steadier, imagery, moon, nature, night,
Form: Quatrain
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories:
steadier, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
Did They Always Wiggle Like This
...The squirming boy was almost too much
Barber Bill was getting aggravated
Did they always wiggle like this? He wondered
Actually, they did.
The thing is…
Barber Bill’s hands are not steady any ...
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Categories:
steadier, age,
Form: Free verse
Milk Factory
...She kisses away the weariness,
Burdens – inklings of the mystery
Birthed by her dream, hope
Remembered in the evening when
The calf nuzzled – her nourishing, nurturing
Gentle as the soft, dark e...
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Categories:
steadier, animal, caregiving, farm, mom,
Form: Free verse
I Have Music
...i have music, mayhem and meaning in my life. a score for more and a part to the strife. i’m grounded but not without a flight plan. a steadier step for a fall apart man. It’s like i mean it and seen ...
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Categories:
steadier, care, encouraging, feelings, growing
Form: Free verse
Ball and Chain
...No mirror shows reflection
were it not for light and
dark, that which surrounds
and enfolds us, warms and
chills our inner – the deeper
degrees of being. Numbers,
weights and scales are our own...
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Categories:
steadier, devotion, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Getting Through
...We have left the bubble of caution,
survived ourselves,
diaries are stored now like logbooks
kept only for the recording
of dates, and not those unspoken fears
that drove us to journal the day...
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Categories:
steadier, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Letter To a Grieving Friend
...Of all the ships I've seen, heard of, or read about;
Of all the ships that have ever braved the oc...
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Categories:
steadier, friendship, grief, loss,
Form: Prose Poetry
View Through the Rear Window
...Did you wonder, why?
Your child kneels on the back seat,
Watches, out of the rear window,
as your car, gathers, speed?
Being a follower,
you honk dip and shout,
To overtake cars ahead,
f...
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Categories:
steadier, analogy, anti bullying, care,
Form: Imagism
Calming the Nerves
...It's like a flamin' maze out here
where I'm looking for a name,
where hawthorn hedges line the fences,
and the crossroads look the same.
I'm up and down seems every road;
I've criss-crossed ea...
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Categories:
steadier, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Stan the Man--Stan Lee a Dedication
...Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION
He who that says that he is I am
I am Stan the man
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922,
In Manhattan, New York City,
n the apartment of his ...
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Categories:
steadier, analogy, appreciation, books, community,
Form: Free verse
Fitting the Within
...When our world cracks open and throws our bodies down
When the world evaporates and turns us into steam
When he world disfigures you and you seem like a clown
Don’t be quick to build again, ther...
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Categories:
steadier, allusion, angst, art, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Verdict of God
...My speed go slow
But my run go steadier
I know I am far from your fragrance
But I am sure to win your love
Singing birds inspire me on way
Sun fallow with sunshine
While I go tired
Garden of g...
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Categories:
steadier, desire,
Form: Lyric
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