Filling Station
...sits well and nearly out of reach unless.
A spell is when it's open dirty, but is closed.
Oil soaked around the bend the elbow is.
The smell around the bushes how they do.
A little stunted here...
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Categories:
translucency, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Still Life
...Give me a dawn stilled by mist,
a gray haze unrisen.
The shimmer of nocturnal lamps
held high.
A time for tree magic; a quite majesty,
all growth halted, transpiring not,
but held within a my...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Getting Along
...The white antique porcelain bowl
your mother gave us
has blue veins that wander over its surface.
Holding it up to the light I also see
there are fine cracks here and there.
Age has made it mo...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Morning Moon
...Have you seen the morning moon?
She is not that cold hung rock
that swings upon the noose of night,
that one is dead
and submerged in a sea of darkness.
The morning moon
has been planting see...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tactiles An Open Form
...TACTILES
blue
in
a
an arrested
gaze
slide
in
a
fused an
avalanche
onto
a bare
canvas
to
erupt
then
to
burst out
&through
into
a
startling
ravishing
melting
bey...
...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Other
Filling Station
...A spell, a well soaked rag
sits well and nearly out of reach unless.
A spell is when it's open dirty, but is closed.
Oil soaked around the bend my elbow is.
The smell around the bushes yes the...
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Categories:
translucency, 12th grade,
Form: Classicism
By and By
...the way you walk, and talk
is at the mercy of tides and shifting dunes
the foibles,
the characteristically odd ways
of your individual life
its mannerisms and behavioral peculiarities
wil...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Free verse
White Moon
...Have you seen the morning moon?
She is not the cold hung rock
that swings upon the noose of night
that one is a dead face
submerged in a sea of darkness.
No, that is not her,
she is a l...
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Categories:
translucency, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: Finding Lost Keys On the Steppes of White Ivory
...
The Dilettante Diaries: "Finding Lost Keys on the Steppes of White Ivory"
Where do you place your hands
When the sands of time
Slip through the 4th
and like reading...
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Categories:
translucency, imagery, longing, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Cynosure
...On the dreary streets of a quaint but callus steadfast hamlet
A pearl in the bluster carries a handwoven sweet grass basket
The umbrella' d tinge of the tiny town was opaque and gray
As the...
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Categories:
translucency, beautiful, beauty, blue, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Better Daya
...I know you’re happy,
Guess I’m stuck bein’ me,
Guess I stay missin’ out on chances that I couldn’t see.
But in the meantime,
Keep your head,
And know I’m doin’ just fine.
You know, ...
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Categories:
translucency, angst, emotions, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
Tarturus's Rapture
...Radiance, shining, illuminating translucency
sky's vast, expansive blue richoting and rivaling ocean views
loose limbs and bashful expression lay scattered across the placid sky
divinity fixed in ...
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Categories:
translucency, angel, conflict, heaven, paradise,
Form: Free verse
February
...Far from the madding crowd
Enjoying your share of diversity
Bathing in the air of Aquarius
Relishing sober amethyst translucency
Unfurl...
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Categories:
translucency, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Lovers Ecstasy
...This place, this time, this way
Oh, that place
It’s just where one feed the wind.
Walking to the river
The lover girl with eyes and heart in center
Her body with smoke and desire
Goes to find o...
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Categories:
translucency, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Darkness Within
...Man's heart, a dark abyss,
Its depth polluted by that innate darkness
Which was always there for that sole purpose,
Looking back into the mirror of childhood,
A smile across my face creeps,
How ...
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Categories:
translucency, dark, deep, growing up,
Form: Free verse
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