Fear Only Fear
...Afraid to ask
Afraid to cast
Afraid to hear
Afraid of jeer
Fear is delaying truth
Fear is growing from youth
Fear is reliving the past
Fear is irrational typecast
Asking diffuses fear
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Categories:
typecast, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Earth Interval
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Typecast pivot rips past apart
Scars inflicted by the furnace
Scatter derma with war stars
Astronomy faraway magnifies
Little shards of light filaments
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Categories:
typecast, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Pools amassed
...I formed in the heavens; they built me in a pure overcast
Concrete looks far too weak to break my fallings contrast
All flower petals decreed a landscape grown to everlast
I will nurture them; in ...
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Categories:
typecast, flower, growth, rain, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
country living
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an actor he was typecast
a soldier hit by a blast
but as of today
he's out mowing hay
farming a dramatic past.
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Categories:
typecast, age, autumn, farm, happiness,
Form: Limerick
Labyrinth of Sighs
...Labyrinth of Sighs
Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die
An emboldened range ...
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Categories:
typecast, life,
Form: Rhyme
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
...Overzealousness and assiduousness...
now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decre...
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Categories:
typecast, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Sea Goats Allegory
...Aquarium realms
of anointed fools
masquerade as sensibility
Typecast foolscap
tired typewriters ribbons
don't have a prolonged head
Between the streets
where the drunkard
spins his tales
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Categories:
typecast, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Imminent Iceberg
...imminent iceberg is inching closer
to the passengers on board
catastrophe typecast...
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Categories:
typecast, angst,
Form: Kimo
Typecast Kin
...by the sea on shore
birds squawk squabble and jostle
feathered typecast kin...
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Categories:
typecast, beach, best friend, bird,
Form: Haiku
The Case of a Stolen Diamond
...It was noon when I got the call
Jewelry store robbed at the mall
It was a young man, very tall
Spoke with a drawl Spoke with a drawl
In the store, I'd been permitted
Where a theft had been c...
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Categories:
typecast, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Dramaturge
...I portrayed the knave of hearts again,
A role it would seem I was made for.
I ventured off script and silenced my critics
By drinking them under the table.
Classically trained in the tavern art...
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Categories:
typecast, allegory, drink, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Typecast
...Fathers of that era
did not hug or touch or
intimate their love.
He was the same
Did he love us, we his
kin, his blood-seed. He
did not say, yet I
believe he did.
He was a provider, for
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Categories:
typecast, father,
Form: Bio
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
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Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
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Categories:
typecast, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Colorless
...I am a product of my next of kin
so in their image, through evolution
determined pigmentation of my skin
of human historic distribution,
a complexion that I am powerless
though never shall I...
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Categories:
typecast, color, history, humanity, identity,
Form: Sonnet
A Ladle of Forms Sit In the Cradle
...A Ladle of Forms Still Sit In The Cradle
A week has past
Questions were asked
Them truly lambaste
For their lemons vast
Leaving readers aghast
In view of better typecast
The flock may hol...
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Categories:
typecast, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme
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