A Visionary's Vitality
...Verily do I separate myself from her celestial face; seems thorough that symbolically setting the tune
For a ceremony of God's grace
Acting only by reacting to what's enate
As if I've been lifted...
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Categories:
symbolically, break up, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
TWO FROZEN REFLECTIONS
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I
Remaining Steadfast Warm
In the Struggle’s Snow Storm
Looking out up above
the ...
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Categories:
symbolically, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere On Foot Part One
...I peered deeply into a water trickling dyke clustered by pale blue and green peebles.
“Oh dear I sometimes dig too deep or maybe not diffidently.
Damon Deep thinker, lost in thought type.”
There ...
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Categories:
symbolically, beautiful, character, city, deep,
Form: Prose
Her First President
...Bondage was good for us.
"Master-me,
you are me taking me.” She was right,
I would lose myself in her.
She’s related to George Washington,
an unrecorded blood tie.
Her flesh is a sensual ...
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Categories:
symbolically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In My Skin
...In My Skin
In my skin I know what is true
Don't lie to yourself, you know it too
Clear away all excuse and every denial
For your soul ,too, will be put on trial
Stop listening to that beguil...
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Categories:
symbolically, humanity, integrity, truth,
Form: Didactic
Sipping coffee
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Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosti...
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Categories:
symbolically, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse
Long time Shelton, Washington transplants
...Long time Shelton, Washington transplants...
also known as
noteworthy Trader Joe's patrons
bass sic lee did treble themselves
conducting taping jam session
assembling (boxing), compiling,
and...
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Categories:
symbolically, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
...Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery pl...
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Categories:
symbolically, addiction, age, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Zen Mode
...it so came to pass
that bliss magnetism
rose from root to crown
along the spinal column
then dipped over the front
descending all the way down
completing the highway of love
that divides our ...
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Categories:
symbolically, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Mission Statement
...I don’t care about your colour
I don’t care about your creed
I don’t care about your gender
Or about your sexual need
Don’t care if you like Blue Peter
While I’m a fan of Jackanory
Don’t c...
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Categories:
symbolically, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Symbolically Speaking
...Cat's eyes glow in concrete
their wings are orange and green
best seen in low light conditions.
Organ pipes are often integral
with large holy edifices,
yet they foot-pedal like any unicycle;
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Categories:
symbolically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Strudwick
...John Melhuish Srudwick
religious painting made him tick
Legends depicted symbolically
renaissance art for all to see...
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Categories:
symbolically, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
The Day I Died
...I could not forget the day I left my old hometown of Saint Louis (San Luis, Baguio City). Every eye was staring at me like I stole their vital organs. My brother and mother were throwing curses in th...
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Categories:
symbolically, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
A Different Song
...To once again hear the renditions of the
songbird’s morning trill as leaves upon the
trees tremble in triad tones within the
moorside tempest; and lyrical waves in unsung
meadows symbolic...
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Categories:
symbolically, nature,
Form: Free verse
In Suppression of Treason What Motive Or Reason
...Irony, often, enacts comically fatal roles,
Brings dignitaries down from their highest pedestal poles;
Sometimes, in a symbolically pragmatic costume,
Of the protagonist, destruction its role d...
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Categories:
symbolically, life, political,
Form: Couplet
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