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Unsent Letters

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Those who’ve gone on before me… what I would have liked to have told them – in those unsent letters, those unwritten stories, those unbroken promises, those unsteady poems, those unbleached m...

Categories: unbleached, cry, death, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Sullied Threads From Yesterdays

...There's a pile of sullied threads on the floor
from muddied quarrels of our yesterdays
Remnants of life that we stripped bare
like sheets from a bed needing laundering

It's a hoard of soiled an...

Categories: unbleached, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Trompe L'oiel

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Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed

I taught you
the primary colors, RED, YELLOW, and BL...

Categories: unbleached, analogy, anger, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cotton Fields

...The devil’s dry fields
dirt farm, not much yields
damn sun
one forlorn tree shields
Texas battlefields
the one
recline that appeals
low water reveals
not done

no reprieve day’s sun...

Categories: unbleached, earth, environment, farm, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Wake and Bake

...I sprinkled dry yeast in warm water
And watched it bubble up,
Then cracked open a fresh laid egg
On the edge of a measuring cup.

I dumped in a helping of all-purpose flour,
A little oil, a pin...

Categories: unbleached, allegory, morning,
Form: Burlesque

I Am Liberia

...I am Liberia!
Though scared by scourges of allien spades,
My resilience bears the fountain of heaven's grace,
Piercing the pangs of all my shades!

My independence, I breathed into Africa's lung...

Categories: unbleached, education, encouraging, freedom, history,
Form: Spoken Word

I Am a Lot But Nothing

...I am the potato every  pig covets,
The circus every Woolf dream to perform in, and
The toddler  every phidophile crave to live with
But non will ever have

I am the uncut gem that will ever be r...

Categories: unbleached, i am,
Form: Free verse

Spf 30

...from younger
days to present
the sun went
from incandescent
to LED perhaps
lacking a little
ozone layer

but finding
myself lost
on a beach
covering all
of my body
with sun
screen

bu...

Categories: unbleached, muse,
Form: I do not know?

The Gladiator

...He stood there, gritted teeth, sword aloft
one foot on the slain Gladiator
would they let him live
honour him with the platinum ring
a ring from that albino of metals

 or would they thrust him...

Categories: unbleached, history,
Form: Free verse

Stains From Muddied Yesterdays

...There's a pile of sullied threads 
from our muddied yesterdays
of a life we stripped bare
to be thrown into the wash

a hoard of soiled toggery
too foul to be cleansed
I tried to bury ...

Categories: unbleached, relationship,
Form: Free verse

On This Day

...Unmoving, sweltering, its evening falls,
Unrolling slowly a knotty unbleached cotton pall,
Turns unceremoniously and exits - 
      the day ending eight years,
Eliott's[1] sends a breeze, a silent sc...

Categories: unbleached, lost love, love,
Form: Limerick

Holiday Delight

...Just for the Holidays so sweet
It is the perfect Christmas treat
To make this special cake so fine
Just use this recipe of mine

Unbleached flour pure and white
About eight ounces is just right...

Categories: unbleached, food
Form: Rhyme