Departing From the Anchor
...On the dock, we took a step into the storm
When wood glades are full of colorful forms,
We were both awed and warm as we spoke
Many of us believe life is a joke
The winter sun spa...
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Categories:
striders, analogy, anger, anxiety, community,
Form: Couplet
Maelstrom
...A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature.
The blackened police the striders in the dark…
a crippled plaything,
a hymn of the tourniquet and tethers.
...an earth-bound deities song. ...
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Categories:
striders, adventure, allegory, art, class,
Form: Free verse
The Quadrangle Well
...They made a decorative well
in the campus
where books and laptops
were set aside
by the skinny staked
newly planted ancient oaks.
Students could sit there
to be good company
if they could fin...
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Categories:
striders, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Countdown
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Twelve is the number of months we journey through;
time sprints by, it's true
Eleven sounds for the first line - I reckoned
five for the second
Ten is the count of either fingers or...
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Categories:
striders, god, jesus, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Anishinaabewi-Gichigami
...Every breath might be your last
Look not forward, look not past
Seize the moment hold it fast.
Leave your calendar
for a week without time
on a land marked by eras.
Paddling into t...
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Categories:
striders, magic, memory, nature, time,
Form: Free verse
Lyric of the Marshland
...Sweet butterscotch dew dimples on the lips of daffodils
In flourishing fields fondled by four leaf clover
Each scant spikelet of small white blooms playfully pleasure
Rejoicing with fragrance with...
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Categories:
striders, beautiful, bird, butterfly, daffodils,
Form: Verse
Misled
...Nor thunder in the dark, nor flash, nor fire,
nor other pyrotechnics that, they say,
accompany all such events, nor dire
phantasmagorias, going astray
in the unconsciousness. I’m all alone
dow...
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Categories:
striders, death, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Savage Pond
...Look out over a pond's banks
what do you see down there
a smooth unruffled surface
things lazily flying round
A frog pops up its head and
perches basking in the sun
newts swim languidly about
a flas...
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Categories:
striders, fish, nature, water,
Form: Free verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
... Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun...
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Categories:
striders, lost love,
Form: Rhyme