Illusion Is Fading
...My illusion is fading as life slips away
Like a snake sheds its skin that gets lost though each day
Still begins with a sunrise, of course! I awake,
Life's past lessons less certain, though I may ...
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Categories:
tailpipes, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Watcher
...Voices drifting between the branches
Swept away by the evening chill
Hurried footsteps and loved ones pulled close
First light from fires kindled
Smoke slowly curling into the darkening sky
L...
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Categories:
tailpipes, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Young Stacker of Firewood
...My father’s timber array arrived on an
overloaded Diamond Reo flatbed.
It dumped oak scraps, leafless dead-woods,
inspiring last metamorphosis to
warming fires come winter’s weather.
Empt...
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Categories:
tailpipes, life, work,
Form: Free verse
The Future
...Worshippers of the shallow, whorish Hollywood stars
Imitators of the gangster rapper’s hateful raves
They drive small vibrating Japanese cars, with big tailpipes
Unconscious to reality, caught i...
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Categories:
tailpipes, life, social,
Form: Free verse