Movements
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Life moves time along
relentlessly
Old-timers swept along
resistantly
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Categories:
timers, life, moving on, time,
Form: Rhyme
Leaves and Leafy Grassiness
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We sleep on each other,
lick on each other,
run around and nip on each other,
we are wholly 'each other,'
personalities
hid
in the ruff and fur around our necks
and the snaggle of ou...
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Categories:
timers, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Girl From The Saloon Down The Road
...Growing up in Zimbabwe
I always thought l was cursed
Everyone had seen an angel in someone
And l didn't, until l took that gaze upon a
Light skinned beauty.
Okay, the girl from the saloon down...
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Categories:
timers, africa, beautiful, character, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Baseball In Heaven
...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ...
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Categories:
timers, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...
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Categories:
timers, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Prospecting for Gold
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Prospecting for gold
in a mosquito-infested ravine
The junior explorers all mighty keen
to prove their skeptics curmudgeony scolds
And sure enough, they return all gap-too...
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Categories:
timers, adventure, children, humor, success,
Form: Quatrain
Bengaluru Now, I Witness You!
...Silicon city
That pulsates,
Both day and night,
The Tech Capital
And the sky, veiled
With urban haze
And dense, sprawling cityscape.
Grey city of its
Gridlocked roads
Surrounded by
Toweri...
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Categories:
timers, anxiety, appreciation, city, life,
Form: Free verse
We Kids Sled
...We kids sled
past the home of so-long-ago.
We kids wear
snow-black boots and warm
mittens. We kids sled,
on a cold sunny day,
across the Vale’s backyard;
Old-timers let
us kids sled
...
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Categories:
timers, childhood, winter,
Form: Verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: 14
...#14: Revelations 23:1
Human chain meant Starman ... breathing room trips,
H**** sapiens chose ... plus naught minus,
the apocalypse ... opts total eclipse,
self-acquaintance, he spl...
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Categories:
timers, bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Glenn Hughes: Best Soul ''Aura'' Music ''Genre'' Artist
...To the successful best ...
I can see the future,
it's been calling me
I'm gonna live my life,
it's how it's gonna be
Some people never listen,
Some people gotta burn
They never h...
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Categories:
timers, addiction, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Lyric
Jim's Glimpse of the MerWoman
...Jim had only glimpsed the gorgeous merwomen once
But he never forgot her gray-eyed stare
She had bored pinpricks through his surprised eyes
Was her hair real or imagined?
Jim recalled coral, st...
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Categories:
timers, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres
...Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...
where Lassie free to run across petco junction
All across the webbed
wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor...
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Categories:
timers, adventure, appreciation, april, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Ode On The Hourglass
...The restoration properties
collected in each and
every grain of sand,
stimulates the aging
functions that affect
durations longing of
infinity that it now
possesses a
plunging ...
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Categories:
timers, appreciation, creation, destiny, education,
Form: Ode
senile stork
...Senile Stork is out of control again
He brought a full sized eight-year-old to the newcomers
They were irritated to the max
Why don’t they retire that old bird?
It is not easy getting rid of th...
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Categories:
timers, animal,
Form: Free verse
New Sort of Wave
...A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch.
B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight.
C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun.
D - esigns creati...
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Categories:
timers, allusion, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Abecedarian
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