It Was an Entirely Normal Day
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The sky held up, still.
The breeze blew on cue.
The cloud stuck glued on blue.
The bills came in mail.
The toast was burned.
The eggs had runny whites.
The plants outside died.
I missed the ...
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Categories:
tweaks, day,
Form: Free verse
Live Free, Stay Good
...There are 144,000 persons living in an open land. All are freemen and women. They have everything they needed to survive until one day when almost all people needed something else to quench their t...
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Categories:
tweaks, life,
Form: Prose
Wave Of Hair
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born with hair slightly wavy as
summer sea's crest, Mom would
treat it as her morning decor ritual---
ponytailed, pinned at the crown with
zigzag of ribbons, braided two-ways,
and god know...
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Categories:
tweaks, celebration, hair,
Form: Other
DAWN
...Dawn
Weakly
Tweaks the curve
Its chilly yawn
Turns off the street lights
As darkness returns home
Sparrows sing morning vespers
A coffee scented mist rises
Silently swirling atop the mug
Day...
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Categories:
tweaks, morning,
Form: Etheree
Burning Sandalwood
...In a ever expanding vast ,
dense,dark ,wild forest,
crooked ,cracked,bent trees,
which provide shade ,bearing
fruits venomous ,with
roots rotten deep down
and spreading to its offshoots.
In th...
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Categories:
tweaks, giving, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Ice Effect
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Where have all my years gone?
there I was a mere young twenty-.one
now in a moment it seems 50 years gone
here grey haired bones ache nothing won
I've no memory of these lost years
they are ...
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Categories:
tweaks, how i feel, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
my life journey
...my life journey was filled with tweaks and spins
I never focused on the ending, for it was a solid continuation
Life goes along in its entirety
Without any effort on my part at all
Some people ...
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Categories:
tweaks, life,
Form: Free verse
STARDUST ON AUTUMN LEAVES
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Candescent blossoms drape the earth's soft merchandise,
A carpet of ombre leaves flutters in the breeze,
Dewdrops transform into halos of light,
Portraying a catharsis in twilight's tender twe...
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Categories:
tweaks, autumn, star,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Candy
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Almost Halloween
The candy is back
Crinkling paper
Lots in a sack
Intended for children
Who come by in droves
The candy must stay
But it tweaks my nose
E...
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Categories:
tweaks, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Timing
...A listless wall-clock tocks.
Pedestrians sleep-walk to their garages,
strung out nightwalkers arrive home
to unwind main springs.
Neighborhood cats want in and dogs out.
Pet-free I arise
to pee...
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Categories:
tweaks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
dare we dream
...The utopian spiel with zeal
We'll visit this Eden ideal
But the feel one seeks
Will really need tweaks
To give paradise sweet appeal...
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Categories:
tweaks, paradise, philosophy,
Form: Limerick
SAT NAM
...SAT NAM
I am rose in sunlight breathing
Buddha in middle of balm bathing
beckoning my Heart leavening lively
I am a loop in Love cathedral of pure
passion ...
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Categories:
tweaks, 12th grade, appreciation, color,
Form: Alliteration
Streaks of Poetry
...Sometimes In silence
I question citrine stars~
what streams beneath
murky waters,
Is hope still flowing
through rusty ripples,
why do we live
in an orb
of sheer blindness,
would the w...
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Categories:
tweaks, dream, earth,
Form: Free verse
Awaking from stupor
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Written: January 16, 2024
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Ephemeral grave is tangled with gloom,
Putting faith in ethereal womb of doom.
Being without other ...
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Categories:
tweaks, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Violence Sorting
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Written: December 15, 2023
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It is undeniable that anguish prevails
It hovers close to a lilting voice
There are no strains ...
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Categories:
tweaks, analogy, bereavement, confusion, hope,
Form: Free verse
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