Scrapyard of Dreams
...Oh I'll make my metal croak and creak,
As it rusts
And rots -
Powdered orange dust
For as a child I wished to water
A garden of vines and blooming trees.
And now I remember
My dreams geared ...
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Categories:
steel plated, courage, desire, dream, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Antiquity
...I feel like an antiquity
some relic from the past
crumbling at the edges
eroded over time
aging has arrived
There are fissures in my proud steel plated armor
once invincible
reality is b...
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Categories:
steel plated, analogy, appreciation, health,
Form: Free verse
You Complete Me
...In our pursuit of oneness, 'my better half' say they...
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Categories:
steel plated, friendship, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Goddess of the Night
...Pale face, blue eyes
goddess of the night
she fakes subtle smiles
wish I may, think I might
long for her in my sight
warm my heart, calm my mind
her eyes pierce through me even though she’s bli...
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Categories:
steel plated, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Praying Mental Rosaries, Intoning Words Familiar
...Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with you.
The Lord is with me too.
He whispers in loud soothing words
that resonate like
liquid softly f...
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Categories:
steel plated,
Form: Free verse
Watching You Dream
...Soft flame flutters gently before surrendering to darkness
wealth of golden glow.
Your mind has been captured by dreams, pirates of the imagination
controlling your activity.
Crescent o...
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Categories:
steel plated, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Unicorn
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Soft flame flutters gently before surrendering to darkness
A wealth of golden glow
Your mind has been captured by dreams, pirates of the imagination
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Categories:
steel plated, fantasy, imaginationsun,
Form: Free verse
Your Latin Radere - the Etching
...Beautiful, burnished, brilliant
Yet, my ink friendly inclinations produce a chemical discrepancy
And now, you come – Artist
Scratching, on my polished mental plate
Do not blacken me with your fum...
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Categories:
steel plated, allegory, angst, art, me,
Form: Free verse