Heavenly Birth Planted In a Vessel Earthen Suit-
... I'm not a rock I'm not a stone;
my ancestors were made of soil
I am from, above
not beneath life force
birth
energy from heaven
a seed
Planted in between Heavenly Glory Fat...
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Categories:
tissued, analogy, birth, blessing, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Actually Going Outside
...Actually Going Outside
We decide to do the cliff walk
from Bray to Greystones
even though the day is grey
and the heavy clouds are low overhead
with a distinct possibility that it will bucket ...
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Categories:
tissued, allusion, books, parody,
Form: Free verse
Best Birthday Gift
...The shiny box tempted her the most!
A turquoise ribbon just glowing!
It was from her best friend and the host.
Their true, long friendship showing.
Truly, no gift was needed.
She picked up he...
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Categories:
tissued, birthday, celebration, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Willing the Stars To See Me
...I dress in ashes of our love
The fire that burnt so bright
Has engulfed
the man i was
This husk is held together
with ripped shreds of tissued lines
Of promises dead and
buried scattered
in t...
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Categories:
tissued, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Zealous Solemn Namaste Kowtowing Loo
...aside from being worn
during mortal kombat firmly braced
full body armor suited up
with proctologists safely positioned
most definitely
entire body electric en cased
re...
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Categories:
tissued, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Our Countryside Orange Fair
...Our countryside road was
Festooned with orange heaps
Escorting us to be the grand orange fair
The gypsy dancers in orange flares
Jingled tambourines with orange ribbons
The bloated sun...
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Categories:
tissued, beauty, dance, farm, flower,
Form: Free verse
Sin's Benison
...It comes as something of surprise.
We need the broken figurines.
the malice we expressed,
the heart forever bound in cords
constricting its magnificence.
It seems
the pure, transcendant, holy orb
tha...
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Categories:
tissued, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Spring Comes
...They say spring is paradise.
Will I think so too
as my lips get paler
and fingers paper thin?
Flowers - all of them
poppies, reminders
like the tissued kind
sold by valorous veterans.
Will poppi...
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Categories:
tissued, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Repast
...it is not with sorrow that I pack it away
in tissued hope of long past days
no common ground for it to last
a sated dream with a sweet repast
it is not with anger that I look back
on a path no...
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Categories:
tissued, lost love
Form: Classicism
Perspective
...as the old year fades away
unrealized hopes of yesterday
tissued dreams packed in a box
put on a shelf but not forgot
fresh perspective, fresh new year
a plan-o-gram to make it clear
erase th...
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Categories:
tissued, hope
Form: Verse
Life
...Begin at the beginning is a good place to start
It makes this poem less tart
sliding from oozed cocoon box
the lions have dens, the holes for fox
screaming is the first noise issued
followed ...
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Categories:
tissued, lifelife,
Form: Rhyme
My Christmas Eve
...I've got one thing for Christmas time
That I've had all the year---
The Christmas lights of your two eyes
Whenever you appear.
The sweetest, softest tinsel known
Hangs golden down your head,
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Categories:
tissued, lovechristmas, christmas,
Form: Lyric