Darkness into Life
...Hell's fury ignites the tormented winds of horrifying fire.
Earth's howls in pain, as its land degenerates into a nightmare.
Swirling red dust and sand tortured and tormented the fallen.
Blister...
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Categories:
tornadic, creation, earth, faith, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Cloud Watching
...When I was younger, I thought that in retirement I would take pictures of or paint beautiful clouds situated so vividly above us.
Clouds more often appear as wonderous displays in the canopy.
Clo...
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Categories:
tornadic, poetess, weather, world war
Form: Free verse
Ghost Horses
...The dismal, drizzling midnight and happenstance finds her lost by an empty field
with few things left to lose and even fewer shames concealed.
She lifts her face to the rain and loses herself to ...
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Categories:
tornadic, angst, storm,
Form: Rhyme
MUSIC IS MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL- for Shasta Simms
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I’m sick of the noise
I’m sick of the noise
Despair has me ill
I’m sick of the noise
Life has me confused
I’m on edge, I’m in lose
I ill and detained
I’m ill and I’m drained
I’m ...
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Categories:
tornadic, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Lyric
We're Not in Kansas Anymore
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Poetry Soup wears a new face ~ it's like wandering in a strange place
as if blown away with tornadic force ~ floundering its way off course
after reading new lines, I gave a shrug ~ l...
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Categories:
tornadic, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
God's Mercy
...Most assuredly, for America,
These are not the best of times,
nor are these the worst of times.
Times have been worst and there is no
promise of better days ahead. History for good
or bad is ...
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Categories:
tornadic, prayer,
Form: Free verse
UNSEEN FORCE
...The cold breeze on my face.
Treetops whooping it up.
The wild swoosh of wind.
The first bolt of lightning
and crackle of thunder…
My dad remembers
several feet of snow -
a wall of solid whit...
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Categories:
tornadic, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse
Stormy Fray
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My Child,
I Need You to Realize, When the Storms of Life Threaten Security
Like A Predator Stalking it's Prey
Unpredictable Devastation May Occur
But Storms are not Here to Stay
When Peace is...
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Categories:
tornadic, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Prologue 2
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OFFENSIVE !!
Gus Ferenski had a problem. It was a beautiful day outside. The rebel sun gazing down
like a peeping Tom.
The factory air, fresh and clean
as a San Francisco hippie.
The l...
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Categories:
tornadic, art,
Form: Other
WEATHER THE STORMS SOAR-
...WEATHER THE STORMS SOAR
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Shadow dances impart across lite path
Souls entrenched in technicolor harvest
Comparable passage denied terrain grasp
Rainbow corral blurb optic delusions trust
B...
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Categories:
tornadic, analogy, appreciation, imagery, weather,
Form: Ode
Junk Drawer
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The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the ...
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Categories:
tornadic, art,
Form: Other
Alive
...It's alive, don't you see
the very air around you breathe -
Breathe in, breathe out
like the tornadic wind that turns about;
You cannot harness it nor reign it in
revolving within this ea...
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Categories:
tornadic, earth, environment, life, wind,
Form: Personification
I Love You Cause You Been Here Before
...When I say I Love You look at Me
Use the eyes of our Father stay looking at me
When I listen to you speak to me I hear whispers song
When I pray for you things that are wrong
Makes my...
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Categories:
tornadic, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
It Happens Each Spring
...Freed from cocoons of shapeless winter coats,
Pert women flutter sparsely bright-arrayed
To tempt male eyes and steal my glancing dotes
Though wife lurks near with rain for spring's parade;
Des...
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Categories:
tornadic, spring, storm, wife,
Form: Sonnet
The Colorful Times of Cool of Warm Autumn-
...The colorful times of cool warm autumn
Warm autumn breeze blown
Trees bark chap like lips burn
Mothers snuggle up with newborns
Green grass brown no longer shown
Ants scatter bees s...
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Categories:
tornadic, adventure, analogy, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
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