Plane in the Sand
...Take a plane ungrateful one
to a distant land...
don't forget to walk the straightest paths
freedom bogs down quickly in shifting sand.
You may have to cover your body from head to toe
you may g...
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Categories:
straightest, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Take The Side Roads
...My father always said
Take the straightest route
It is always the safest way to go
Trod by all sensible people
I found that yes, it may be safe
And well trodden by everyone else
The most beauti...
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Categories:
straightest, freedom, travel,
Form: Free verse
All about depression
...
Depression is a shape poem
A difficult one in times of contemplation
A shape that gets you, almost in nothingness
Whispers darkness in the valley of your chest.
Where the minaret stood in t...
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Categories:
straightest, allegory, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
The Lantern Bearers
...My fellow pilgrims on life’s path,
I greet you here today
To share a tale of gratitude
For help along our way.
Our best route is the straightest path,
And narrow from the gate.
But most of us...
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Categories:
straightest, allegory, angel, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
God Made You For Me:
...God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.
Everything happens for a reason and I always thank God for all ...
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Categories:
straightest, life, prayer, pride,
Form: ABC
The Line
...There is a line drawn straight and true
By a pencil of fear
Its erasable
Seems simple in context
But so difficult to write
In world so consumed by regret
Where does a simple line in life come ...
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Categories:
straightest, courage, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Are You Overboard, My Love
...Why couldn't we be best friends my love
Our hearts afire, once matched like a glove
Yet your eyes are now distant from me
Be best friends my love, why couldn't we
I've been the straightest arr...
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Categories:
straightest, best friend, hurt, lost
Form: Quatrain
For the Birds
...When someone says something off the wall
We say, “That’s for the birds,” but I wonder,
Do birds have an affinity for the ridiculous
This is something we might carefully ponder.
And ...
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Categories:
straightest, bird, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Bowing To the East
...Bowing to the East,
a sacred obligation,
comforting
and curious forehead down
to kiss this humble ground
of ego's straight supremacy
Including fat white men
buttocks up
and yintegrity open...
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Categories:
straightest, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Between the Lines
...Is reason the straightest road
to percipience
Or is truth intuition
—memory’s black hole
(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)...
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Categories:
straightest, truth,
Form: Free verse
Animosity
...Confident stride in a broken face.
Can you guess who lost the race?
Straightest line along a path.
Can the stray cat do the math?
Every time in every way,
Our hero fails to save the day,
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Categories:
straightest, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Mccain Was Greatest and Straightest
...McCain Was Greatest and Straightest
Was up to date with news and reading latest,
We noticed it mentioned McCain is greatest,
On surely rely;
Always bull's eye,
And of all shooters will stay th...
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Categories:
straightest, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Believe
...i believe in rhyme and reason i trust my heart to blind my eyes
the rain can fall in every season the truist love never dies
karma can restore the balance a single tear can start a flood
every one...
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Categories:
straightest, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Story Tellers
...There's some stories old men tell
Just so they can hear themselves
Always hold a certain ring
With their own brand of embellishing
Around the stove in the old country store
If they've told it ...
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Categories:
straightest, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Perversion
...Because of perversion,
the straightest path bends
Because of perversion,
confusion befriends
Because of perversion,
all smiles a frown
Because of perversion,
up is now down
Be...
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Categories:
straightest, sin,
Form: Rhyme
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