The Clause
...Catalyst that gold doubloom;
Careful, with a clause conquered;
I rebuild what I consume;
I came, I clawed, I conjured;
Savage and soft specks subsume,
potent potion passed and poured;
Dare to c...
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Categories:
subsume, dark, emotions,
Form: Alliteration
Dusk
...Lightly, almost imperceptibly,
dusk quiets and stills the day.
The brightness and youth
of morning vibrates with
exciting expectations
of unknown adventures
waiting to be discovered,
a reach...
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Categories:
subsume, imagery, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Words subsume their opposite
...Words
Always subsume
Their opposite..
It's the prevailing
Duality..
With that said
Suspicions might
Arise on words
Reporting what is......
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Categories:
subsume, words,
Form: Light Verse
Thrilling Vibrancy
...Written: August 31, 2023
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With your feet rooted deep in the earth,
And your mind soaring high into rebirth
Claim your e...
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Categories:
subsume, analogy, appreciation, character, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Canoeing On the Current River
...Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.
Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
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Categories:
subsume, allegory, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
Macadamia Determinism
...'If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door'
Milton Berle
Outstretched clever Macadamia tree
Bears talents of both Mama and Papa
Fruit materialised due to insect interlop...
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Categories:
subsume, adventure, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Tear-Falling Stab
...laze upon long stinging
persist the tear-falling stab
can't subsume a choice for yourself
It's a watching pleasure
and my breathing survival
to mark your sucking endurance...
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Categories:
subsume, endurance,
Form: Free verse
The Weed of Our Land
...Long after our political matric
Green meant for Agric to make us thick
Become green for vices that make us weak
We are on the weed of our land
Britmen sow the seed of this weed
We choose to ...
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Categories:
subsume, africa, anger, poets, political,
Form: Ballad
When a Tree Is Felled
...When a tree is felled....!
When a tree is felled, a sad ring of deathknell,
With it goes for many - their tiny places to dwell!
How much of Earth will man's greed consume ?
Very many forms disc...
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Categories:
subsume, environment, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Woe
...Woe betide he!
Condemned from the very beginning to ultimate destruction
Preoccupied with recruiting souls with reckless abandon
With a mandate to wreck havoc on mankind before his time is done
T...
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Categories:
subsume, depression, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Beloved Green Commons
...What purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence of identity?
Origi...
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Categories:
subsume, anger, creation, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse
Mind's Furnished Rooms
...In mind's castle many furnished rooms
In upper chamber, chaste virtue grooms
In lower chamber, strands of civility bloom
In antechamber, auxiliary dreams, visions illume
In the inner chamber, fears, ...
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Categories:
subsume, body,
Form: Rhyme
Emperor Within
...Existence bubbles no commentary just drumming the solos reached wings eclipsed no trouble
just buzzing spectral light ignited a darting red/ then blue tunes subsume there's no
policy just humming, ...
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Categories:
subsume, mystery
Form: I do not know?
Dark Victory
...Dark Victory
A free spirit
Who never took orders
Young and strong
Nothing could touch you
Reckless
Volatile
Defiant
Dangerous
Until you found love
And a courage
You didn’t dream
You...
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Categories:
subsume, death, life
Form: Free verse
Sequence-Full Circle
...Blue
mist
upon
a blue day-
will the sun break through
the sadness I feel
within me,
and lift
this
gloom ?
wait..
work,
subsume
my being
in activity-
a light awakens
positive
outlook...
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Categories:
subsume, angst, depression, hope, on
Form: Fibonacci
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