My Turbulent Calm
...I see the wind
And hear the sun
And when it hurts
I have such fun
I know not when
But the where is sure
The reasons are clear
Though fully obscure
Thoughts I suffer
The long night through
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Categories:
subtracts, absence, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
What the Tide Owes
...When you were little,
we wandered the sunlit shore—
your laughter a bright echo
mingling with the rush of waves.
I watched as the sea snatched your red ball,
a tiny planet swallowed by surging t...
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Categories:
subtracts, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a
U - - U || U UUt U U - || U - X
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist
U U - || U UUt - || U U U U - X
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn...
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Categories:
subtracts, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian I
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...
'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis
poised t...
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Categories:
subtracts, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
LOVE ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION
...
Sometimes I think if we had paid better attention to basic math
it would be easier to follow our hearts….
and the Earth would be one whole…
instead of broken into parts.
I imagine in element...
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Categories:
subtracts, love,
Form: Rhyme
Fiery Trials Top Ten
...Focus on His faithfulness,
Especially His past acts.
Respond with your faithfulness,
For disloyalty subtracts.
When lion and lioness
Surround for deadly attacks,
Determine to praise and bless...
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Categories:
subtracts, bible, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Karma
...Written By: D. Collins 7/14/23
Karma is nothing but how we choose to live.
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Categories:
subtracts, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Time Is Measures
...Time is measures
counts, adds and subtracts
its lone reason
I walk by a graveyard
aware of silent murmur
read the labels
and solemn faces
for a moment become
Time's critical jury
the...
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Categories:
subtracts, christian, death, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Best Gifts of This Life - 1,2
...I. Early Childhood’s Gifts
Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years...
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Categories:
subtracts, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tenebrous Night
...Tenebrous night steals autumn days,
Invading ink subtracts the breath of light,
With tarnished mingling edge,
With dusty dusk’s laments.
Tenebrous night of immutable grave,
Infiltrating melani...
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Categories:
subtracts, class, death, international, night,
Form: Didactic
In the Company of Zeroes
...Neither their presence nor absence adds to or subtracts from you.*
Once a problem you share with them, infinite ones will ensue.†
In interaction with them too, you reduce to their value.‡
9.3.’15
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Categories:
subtracts, men, society, world,
Form: Tristich
Digital
...Digital age, digital technology, digital people
Digital adds to life
Digital subtracts from life
But why?
Because:
People make things
People change things
People use things
People abuse thing...
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Categories:
subtracts, education, people, technology,
Form: Free verse
My Apology,
...Note - Dear readers this poem is NOT written intentionally about someone.
My apology(sorry ) is so expensive , everyone can't afford.
My apology is actually very expensive everyone can't afford.
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Categories:
subtracts, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Open Meeting
...Open sky
The blue lake has numerous
waves Is evolving with.
In the fog frenzy
The hills around
Unclean existence proves;
On this side the green is on the hill
A gentle, sweet, calm, ...
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Categories:
subtracts, beautiful, love, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love and Basic Facts
...Sometimes I sit and wonder:
Would our world be on a better path
if in elementary school we paid more attention
to the lessons we learned in math.
I imagine back then we didn’t understand
how ...
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Categories:
subtracts, love,
Form: Verse
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