Smell Induced Memories
...As I walked into a family restaurant,
My nose got tickled all of a sudden
By a familiar aroma that entered my nostrils.
It transported me back to the years long past,
When I was a child at my fa...
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Categories:
timorously, how i feel, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Quieter You Are
...ENOUGH!
I felt deaf from the ‘noise’ of information,
constantly butting, buzzing against my mantra of:
“The quieter you are… the more you… hear!”
At present, my lifestyle felt media manipulated...
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Categories:
timorously, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Interlude
..."In life, grief outweighs joy and laughter is an interlude between two sighs."
~By Poet~
Isn’t it sheer destiny that you and I were born,
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Categories:
timorously, death, growing up, life,
Form: Free verse
A Wisdom Download
...We are travelers on this wild terrain
Heading timorously towards an unknown goal
Ever tossed by the vicissitudes of life
Fated to partake evenly of smiles and tears
All the paths we tread along
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Categories:
timorously, life, light, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Not Alone
...I see him walking awkwardly
With faltering baby steps
A wizened shadowy figure
A man over eighty with an arching body
Carrying the carcasses of lost aspirations
He has seen thousan...
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Categories:
timorously, gospel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
...*Image of Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
AUDIO version for the vision impaired.
Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
Go, young man,
and conciliate cravings,
menacing palls the cherished
realm. Shelves ar...
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Categories:
timorously, character, education, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Visit To An Old Cemetery
...As far as my eyes could see were old stones
Storied lives, some remembered, most forgotten,
Once were flesh and blood, now only dry bones.
I wondered how many of them were misbegotte...
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Categories:
timorously, death, memorial, tribute,
Form: Terzanelle
A Brief History of Beds
...Old beds reinventing themselves
as hammocks for the distilling
of sweat and foam
into an archive of dreams.
Sprung mattress’ sag like spavined camels,
or twist days and nights together
into s...
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Categories:
timorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trace
...Timorously I move alongside
Rendering me anxious and edgy
At Last I have found her
Casually I hugged the body I loved most
Ending weeks of intense tracking....
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Categories:
timorously, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
Unwanted
...broken branches
of a tree
fuzzy faces
unclear to me
painfully imprints
genetically strand
imprint illusions
alone being banned
Helplessly hoping
a final breath
timorously taunt...
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Categories:
timorously, feelings, sad,
Form: Quatern
Lobster Bile
...I was afraid.
The morsel of fear laid upon my finger
It laughed at my dismay
It was quick.
Leaping from my hand
To my carnivorous cave
It reminded me of home.
My moms warm garlic
mashed...
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Categories:
timorously, adventure, body, deep, evil,
Form: Free verse
Spring of Inspiration
...Forever young, poised on the leaping edge of time,
the child essence that lives within,
age-creased the outer casing
where, paper thin, the skin grows old
and withers like spent leaves before the...
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Categories:
timorously, art, inspiration, life,
Form: Free verse
When the Cat's Away
...WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY
The murine stars
Hide timorously as the cat’s yellow eye
Appears early each morning
Trying to catch those tiny
Scurrying distant dwarfs
But they stay hidden un...
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Categories:
timorously, cat,
Form: Free verse
The Leaving of Liverpool
...THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
Giant ferry berthed in Mersey River :
Tugs take the strain with a shiver,
Ropes creak and we cast off -
She timorously inches away from the wharf.
Bow c...
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Categories:
timorously, seariver,
Form: Imagism
Fall In the Snow
...FALL IN THE SNOW
Navigating deserted street , timorously,
Seems ok underfoot, so branch out a little.
No ice, just hard-packed snow.
Sidewalk looks white, innocent, safe.
Left fo...
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Categories:
timorously, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
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