Fall's Promise
...FALL’S PROMISE
The fall has promise!
And for all of the joys
of folk song and festival,
of changing colors and
lingering warmth, the frosty
subtexts of evenings and mornings
are invitation...
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Categories:
subtexts, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Back To Front and Beyond
...the bottom lines scripted peripheries in a mirror
a headline toppled and reversed time and place
left became right and wrong pretended its centre
denuded illusions spoke ...
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Categories:
subtexts, books,
Form: Free verse
Second Person Intimate
...taking wing with the dawn,
of a new horizon,
we fix our gaze,
above the masquerade,
of near and dear,
beyond sublunary existence,
past the face of fear,
into the presence of awe,
and the sour...
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Categories:
subtexts, heart, hope, integrity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Cooperative Pirate School
...Students conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre...
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Categories:
subtexts, care, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Shock the Rose
...You cannot let it drop, the imaginary subtexts,
The ideas of reference in each line, each word,
Are you so important that it all is meant for you?
Or do you know deep down it’s simply too absurd?
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Categories:
subtexts, on writing and words,
Form: Verse