VISION OF A TORMENTED WORLD
...The din of darkness,
The cacophony of impostors,
The symphony of ignorance,
The decadence of progress,
Colonial heritage,
The empire of the pharaohs,
The agony of the pyramids,
The orde...
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Categories:
subsoil, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Free verse
The Legendary Kingdom of Florida
...You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another blue swimming pool.
You can almost cross the peninsul...
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Categories:
subsoil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dwellers and Grazing Land
...The Earth is groveled by her own soul.
With her skull welting on the sky, as all.
Affixes the omissions in her memory.
Together with people and greenery.
The grass lies behind shuck...
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Categories:
subsoil, analogy, animal, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Goodby To Prometheus
...I am cutting ties
that I knotted to a faraway soil.
Exiled no longer at the tiller
of a long beached fishing boat
that bobs only on the legends
of ancient waves.
Those fluent in soul-breathing,...
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Categories:
subsoil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ecotone
...Ecotone
I did not plant the prairie tickseed that appeared among
The cultivated flowers of my garden and quickly dominated.
It seemed to say, “We live, still!
My house sits in a tension zone...
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Categories:
subsoil, environment,
Form: Free verse
Subsoil Tears
...creased mind uncared blank
ashen visage dumped unclaimed…
dry tears laid subsoil
September 5, 2019
Syllable count : 5/7/5
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Reference son...
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Categories:
subsoil, lonely, old,
Form: Senryu
Unfinished Poem
...I look at an empty page,
Demons attacking, ranting,
Feelings of rage,
My heart no longer beating.
Sunk into a sea of turmoil,
Tranquility no longer being,
Now beneath the subsoil,
No longer ...
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Categories:
subsoil, confusion, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, sad,
Form: Rhyme