Prescribed Celebration
...(yes, I'm serious)
Three minutes.
That’s how long it took
to name a swarming mess:
A self-appointed poet
with rogue chemicals sizzling in her nerves.
The diagnosis long and fancy—
b...
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Categories:
stormier, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Wishes Live To Hope
...The more I think I really know,
the less I understand
The farther out to sea I drift,
the more I miss the land
The stormier the days repeat,
my soul to chase the sun
The rules I once thou...
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Categories:
stormier, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part One
...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET
THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART ONE
GIBRALTAR / DJEBEL-TARIQ 711 AD / 92 AH
In the eyes of the hawk
Djebel Musa to Djebel Tariq
is the tactical distance across the
tur...
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Categories:
stormier, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Wishes Live To Hope
...The more I think I really know,
the less I understand
The further out to sea I drift,
the more I miss the land
The stormier the days repeat,
my soul to chase the sun
The rules I onc...
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Categories:
stormier, hope,
Form: Rhyme
World Cruise
...W wonders can abound if you follow me round
O oarsome adventures day after day (sorry)
R relaxed and unwound we felt jollier than a clown
L loosen the dentures, put the curlers away
D dressed up ...
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Categories:
stormier, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
My Yentl Yeti
...Living way up north in the snow,
was a yeti who was quite gullible,
wanted to keep the peace with him,
so told him I was his next of kin,
I hated to make up a story like that,
but didn't want ...
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Categories:
stormier, animal, friendship, humor, snow,
Form: Light Verse
Box of Chocolates
...B arbarians and intellectuals promote winds of change
O nly the blameless ones will be left over, to turn the page
X enophobia will be gone, good riddance to evil pride
O bvious to news watchers...
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Categories:
stormier, change, conflict, confusion, fear,
Form: Acrostic
33rd Birthday Part 2
...33rd BIRTHDAY
Back to back taking from a formula,
But can be stormier within the storm,
Uninformed ignorantly believing lies is the norm,
These words are here to inform, me and you, open your...
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Categories:
stormier, allegory, birthday, blessing, meaningful,
Form: Epic
The Lighthouse
...Hails upon stormier tempestuous
sea surges, ascending, mountainous
waves crashing, splattering, appallingly
Strikes against lighthouse's sentinelling
Beam glowing, rebuffing, unremitting
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Categories:
stormier, ocean, sea,
Form: Verse