Mrs Moore
...O!
Same place, same time
morning chill and cracks of sun
curled in dark doorway
her shape, her pulse same line
Same doorway she calls her home
‘tween supplements west and bath bombs east
c...
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Categories:
stenches, allegory, forgiveness, home, obituary,
Form: Blank verse
Light
...the blood runs thin yet saturated with ideas
foreign and forgotten of home's idyllic nature
day's twinkle welcomed the white svelte blankets as
golden needles pierced deep through the fabric of he...
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Categories:
stenches, hope,
Form: Suzette Prime
Displaced in Misplaced Confidence
...If I should get punctured, laying leaking Crimson Tide,
call me Deacon Blues as I slowly start to die.
If they miss me, take it easy.
All is as it should be.
It's best to cut losses, cut ties, c...
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Categories:
stenches, celebrity, farm, fashion, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Stench of Insomnia
...THE STENCH OF INSOMNIA
narcoleptic deities in charge of the world
are tangled and detangled in the threads of time
they are sardonic and bitter and out for revenge
alien me...
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Categories:
stenches, addiction, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Raving, Raving; the Tides Receeding
...Here I am,
In the first fling of youth-
In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?
This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, c...
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Categories:
stenches, allusion, angst, anxiety, i
Form: Free verse
Time and Chance
...Merit was always the gold medalist
Then came the shrewd unconcerned capitalist
Who endeared and sold to many the cheap thrill
At jaw-dropping prices reserved only for mastery and skill
And I agre...
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Categories:
stenches, time,
Form: Rhyme
Smells and Stinches In the Trenches
...Smells and Stinches in the Trenches
Have never before wrote poem like this;
Hope my thought and point never miss;
What life meant;
To heaven sent;
About a lonely life of either hers or his.
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Categories:
stenches, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
A Place of Today's Past
...The silence of morn makes this place forlorn
in the fields, the hillsides, and trenches.
Over two hundred years since the bloodshed and fear,
yet you can hear the yells, smell the stenches.
The c...
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Categories:
stenches, america, history, perspective, places,
Form: Rhyme
Control
...Control
Slaves of Sin, we are the minions
That is, if we choose to be
Though Sin houses in our system
We need not follow her decree
With her allure and her enticements
She may tempt you to do w...
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Categories:
stenches, fear, sin,
Form: Ballad
Rain In the Morning Is Pain On the Poor
...Since they cannot fend for themselves, how they can yawn rest of the night and go into the morning experience no food move in the afternoon any food and in night again no food. However government is ...
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Categories:
stenches, abuse, poverty, weather,
Form: Ballad
Today I Start My Twenty-Second Year
...(In December 1936, English poet John Cornford
was killed in combat near Lopera, during the
Spanish Civil War. It was the day after his
twenty-first birthday. Could this be the poem
he was form...
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Categories:
stenches, history,
Form: Rhyme
On Vacation With Middle Passage Memories
...On Vacation With Middle Passage Memories
Out over the alluring expanse
of the Big Water---
where the sky rest upon
the water’s edge---
where undulating ships wait
to fall off the earth---
w...
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Categories:
stenches, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
1914-1918 World War 1
...1914-1918 World war 1
Bullets flying over trenches
Can’t see too much for smoke that stenches
Lieutenant makes orders to stand here fast
Don’t be scared chaps we’re having a blast
Feet so...
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Categories:
stenches, art,
Form: I do not know?
Good To See You
...Good to see you ?
Taste the touch of the night it’s real
Escape reality but find the truth in the deal
Today tomorrow the dust the dawn the steel
Desire deface distract determine then kneel
Ho...
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Categories:
stenches, art,
Form: I do not know?
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Seven
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Seven
The balding weeping willow by the Prefecture Gate’s railings
There where on drowsy summer’s day gather swan and goslings
To unfurl and let fan the crisp en...
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Categories:
stenches, dream,
Form: Quatrain
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