Unbefitting
...I was drawn to you, from the first instant
something about you aroused my senses
a message unspoken, and insistent
that could somehow bypass my defenses.
I couldn’t show it, you couldn’t know i...
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Categories:
unbefitting, boyfriend, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
I Rose
...Several years ago today
They reckoned me unbefitting for their ears
Per the yardstick of the day
Their percipience was disparaging
But still I rose
By their clairvoyance I was infecund
Plainl...
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Categories:
unbefitting, discrimination, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Blossom
...Over the moon?
Below the stars!
Betwixt a waking dream and benumbing reality ...
A baby-faced blossom tries to summon up its courage
before faring on a quixotic quest to face the raging current
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Categories:
unbefitting, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Essence of Love
...My veil falls to my feet
I am at my most vulnerable
yet I lose my shyness easily in front of you
as your eyes acceptingly savor me.
I am in awe
of my ease of presence
and of your hunger of my b...
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Categories:
unbefitting, death, freedom, goodbye, i
Form: Free verse
Advice To a Beauty Queen
...Now that all the world-honored bloom you have,
How do you plan to run the affairs of this estate?
Whatever your thrifty or careless arrangement,
Remember that Nature gives in order to confiscate.
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Categories:
unbefitting, beauty,
Form: Verse
Imprisoned Part 3
...PART 3
etc., etc., etc., and the negativity just keeps steam rollering on and on, it just keeps on coming and coming, like giant waves crashing upon a serine beach, tearing it apart and depositing i...
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Categories:
unbefitting, change,
Form: Prose
The Empty Basket
...Years ago, I bought a basket,
Plain, unappealing –
Weave already unraveled,
I only paid one dollar –
I set the basket on the shelf,
Separated, secluded –
And there it stood,
Unbefitting the ...
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Categories:
unbefitting, faith, holiday, inspirational, visionary,
Form: Free verse