Questions?
...Questions
If form follows function,
why does everything have too many bells and whistles?
Especially cell phone.
If everything is so simple a rocket scientist could do it,
why aren’t we all ...
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Categories:
sturdier, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Within The Womb Of The Earth
...Wicked generation asks for a sign you said to them.
Could they, in their thought, word, or reach your divinity's realm?
As though puppies bark at the elephant that's on a stroll
Could any of their...
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Categories:
sturdier, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Fuel
...We all stumble into sticky situations
Scratching our heads for explanations
Wishing things just simply went our way
So we can easily breeze through our days
What if we put the striving on th...
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Categories:
sturdier, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Voice of Poetry
...Poetry determines its own form
the Anatomy of heartfelt expression
Sort of like, God choosing Moses
who objected for his stutter: “Surely,
Lord, would not my brother (Cecil, the English
Majo...
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Categories:
sturdier, inspirational, introspection, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse
The Backpack
...Your like my backpack
So heavy and stiff
Do you ever get tired of carrying that sack around?
It's heavier than mine
Except i can't see it
No one can
No one even knows it's there
To be honest...
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Categories:
sturdier, anxiety, depression, feelings,
Form: Personification
The Backpack
...Your like my backpack
So heavy and stiff
Do you ever get tired of carrying that sack around?
It's heavier than mine
Except i can't see it
No one can
No one even knows it's there
To be honest...
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Categories:
sturdier, anxiety, depression, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Reflection
..."I am better off healed than I ever was unbroken."
Beth Moore
I thought I was as fragile as a gossamer web
woven b...
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Categories:
sturdier, courage, emotions, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Right As Rain
...Disastrous free-fall
Into consuming ashes of heartbreak,
He landed with deafening thud.
Wounded, spirits deflated
Rivulets o...
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Categories:
sturdier, emotions, endurance, freedom, lost
Form: Tristich
Invincible
...I'll walk through ice and numbing snow
Though slaying cold be its freezing feel,
And trek through roasting deserts drear,
Taxing grip betwixt soil and mortal heel.
Not lonely climes shall my ...
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Categories:
sturdier, allegory, allusion, character,
Form: Bio
A Mighty Fortress - the B-17
...A mighty fortress is this venerable plane!
A flying fortress indeed - the adversary's bane!
Though she groans as through the celestial dome she flies,
There's no sturdier old queen ruling the skie...
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Categories:
sturdier, military, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Salute To the Tortoise
...Citadel of wits and tricks
Who appears wimpish;
But your back is stronger
And harder than Olumo rock,
And the great walls of China;
Citadel of wits and tricks
Who staggers like a Kampf panzer,
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Categories:
sturdier, africa, animal, appreciation, hyperbole,
Form: Ode
Magnolia Grove
...Fairies pirouette through the dew drops.
A duet of crickets fills the forest with a mist upon the lane.
Sunlight sprays sporadic patterns of light upon the trees.
The rhythm of spring jumps from t...
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Categories:
sturdier, discrimination, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Legends of Lillie
...Like her name, so slender and lovely;
And I recall she smiled so prettily.
She was my aunt; born with a disease;
But took life like the summer breeze.
My best friend was her son, Jose,
Until s...
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Categories:
sturdier, courage, family, flower, green,
Form: Couplet
Living Eulogy To Mom After Cielo Or Bust
...After El Cielo or Bust
I know time isn’t
on my Mother’s side
for much longer
Her frail body like a delicate
wine glass that has just tipped
off the table toward
a floor
that is sturdi...
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Categories:
sturdier, daughter, death, eulogy, mom,
Form: Free verse
I Found You
...I found you
in the stars as they blinked
like fireflies in the navy velvet canopy of midnight.
I found you in the soft grassy knolls of the isles off the
California, those coastal slices of m...
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Categories:
sturdier, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
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