At the Point of Inflection
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In the beginning
there was a shapeless void.
With no axis, no curve, no trace of motion—
Just, the stillness of a dark blank space,
echoing the hollow absence of intent.
A point appeared, a ...
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Categories:
swerves, environment, space,
Form: Free verse
Passing Through The Moment
...Passing Through The Moment
Aesthetic communion for an artist in a ghetto
Prosthetic student union that is only there for the power show
Anaesthetic ex-communion for a doctor who does not want ...
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Categories:
swerves, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Einstein Rosenberg Bridge
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I dream in tensors, sleep in curves,
A fabric bent by mass that swerves—
Space and time, a unified song,
Where gravity has whispered long.
A point—no width, no height, no breadth,
A singular...
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Categories:
swerves, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Frame Of Crystal Eyes
...Somehow among the hidden leaves of time
when quietude swerves on a lane,
there is a throb of evening's breath
panting inside those marble eyes
that if I gaze long enough into darkness
your ice...
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Categories:
swerves, emotions, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nascar Haiku Poem
...14 Days of a Haiku representing 14 laps of a rookie driver’s first NASCAR race.
Lap 1 Green Flag - (4/16/25) @ 2:23pm
Engines roar to life,
Rookies grip is tight with nerves
First lap, heart on f...
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Categories:
swerves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haiku
MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
...BLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING T...
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Categories:
swerves, allah,
Form: Naat
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
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The life stream swerves in undulating landscape,
the concert of murmur cascades with mesmeric melody
in the rapture ripples of the whispering breeze,
the sound of music flies past me ...
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Categories:
swerves, analogy, memory, silence,
Form: Free verse
My dance with plants
...My dance with plants
In the quiet chambers of my beating heart,
A tale of resilience unfolds,
a life torn apart.
See I,
my friend,
Am the longest survivor,
A warrior against shadows,
A fla...
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Categories:
swerves, adventure, blessing, cancer, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Lily And Billy Collab
...Lilly And Billy
Street cat Billy's spongy scraggly and cool
So, so edgy-sik, he's a grunge-dusky jewel
House cat Lily purrs he's so fine
Billy scoffs just get in line
But he knows deep...
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Categories:
swerves, cat, cute, humor,
Form: Limerick
Raining in Summer
..."Raining in Summer" Contest
Sponsor: Ink Empress
3rd Place
"Raindrops" Contest
Sponsor: Jcb Brul
2nd Place
It's raining.
Well, it was at least.
I'm just a nobody in their parents' garage wi...
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Categories:
swerves, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, green,
Form: Free verse
Magnum Opus
...In case you haven't noticed I'm a poet verbal usage explosive,
Wrote it to show I'm potent while showing I'm still unfolding,
With words I manage verbs the action within observed,
Then swerves I'm...
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Categories:
swerves, art, beautiful, cool, creation,
Form: Rhyme
I Hate Wet Socks
...I hate wet socks.
I'm knee-deep with diapers floating by.
The steel stairs steps (that go up!)
Just 10 feet from me.
Seawater pouring in from every orifice.
I'd be dead already if I had not bri...
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Categories:
swerves, boat,
Form: Free verse
Brink Part Two
...Skater on black ice,
sheds a ghostly light,
under dark charcoal sky
they weep and spin
in magic bold rings
but shriek with laughter
when sonic bells peal
as the nocturne candle
flicker of...
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Categories:
swerves, angel, beautiful, beauty, character,
Form: Imagism
Songs of Nature COS No 14: ABBA
...Sole say I, What wouldst be the reasoning?
Murmurs, her head swerves about, hesitates,
nibbles green herbs with care then elevates.
Cautious white doe, quaint sight a wandering.
Alert nose takes ...
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Categories:
swerves, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Journey of a Contemporary Joseph
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Author’s note: The following is in haibun form—poetic prose (microfiction with less than 200 words in this case) coupled with a haiku. It was written in response to a writing prompt to (re)tell...
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Categories:
swerves, christmas, family, immigration, jesus,
Form: Haibun
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