Before the City Dawns
...(A subaltern dawn song...)
We rise before the rooster cries,
Before the sky begins to blush,
Before the bosses sip their tea,
We sweep the silence with a hush.
The city sleeps ...
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Categories:
uncared, absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
1993
...A generation to ask why.
Peaked and taught a world is nothing but themselves, not even to be.
Occupying nothing but digital spaces offered to prior persons and parentage.
From here, where are ...
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Categories:
uncared, age, america, appreciation, light,
Form: Free verse
The last petal - the last grace
...As the Autumn falls
The jays sing
A melody -a tale the old wives would sing
While the sun fills the sky dripping
With gold as honey to the brim
I catch sight from my window
Vines and creepyar...
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Categories:
uncared, angst, autumn, beautiful, death
Form: Free verse
this time then
...This time then 110 years ago we were all prepared for war,?
That was the time when others were slaughtered and torn.?
Fastforward 4 years the gods above had slayed them all,?
Leaving those l...
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Categories:
uncared, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Vulture
...You have shown me
Truly
What it means
To be a vulture amongst mourning doves
To witness pain,
Absolute and final,
And feel only hunger
Gnawing with merciless lust, are we
On the skin
On ...
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Categories:
uncared, corruption, desire, lust,
Form: Free verse
Time Traveler
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An immortal time traveler,
I visit placid planets and shining stars
across the inter-stellar space
in the timeless continuum.
I’ve visited many times in disguise
the unique blue planet,
th...
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Categories:
uncared, change, earth, humanity, time,
Form: Free verse
Narrative Of Change
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“The wheel of time traces the trail of change
in the chronicle of harmony”
Quote by Poet
time then had facile fluidity flowing
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Categories:
uncared, analogy, change, time,
Form: Free verse
Existence Enshrined
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The rhapsody of rainbow
melts in morose mélange,
the concoction of colors
bleeds bland in
shattered silence,
sucked out
of crumbled core
of sensuous cloud,
soothing rain rinses
the ...
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Categories:
uncared, analogy, life, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
You are the ultimate
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Petals, leaves and thorns
Dwelling on the same bough
Dance together with breeze
...
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Categories:
uncared, celebration,
Form: Free verse
ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...
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Categories:
uncared, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Children Of Deprivation
...
In the terrane of deplorable deprivation manifested
in the wasteland of wretched desertion,
the obscure tufts of the subdued slender grass
struggle to rise through the cleavage of stony dest...
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Categories:
uncared, change, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Gifts We Give
...Gifts of love are shared by many
Gifts of love are uncared by some
Some are easy to overjoy
Many are hard to overcome...
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Categories:
uncared, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Lesson a Dog Taught Me
...On a stone wall, by the solitary pavement,
Annoyed and angry, with daggers drawn at everyone,
I saw my neighbor sitting dejected and depressed.
Though known him for years, of late he h...
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Categories:
uncared, anger, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Unscratched Itch
...Like uncared unfulfilled wishes creeping to the fore
Irresistible! Impossible, yet? Dilemmatic?
Shy about removing the robe that might reveal the core
Could the cut be covered with the costliest ...
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Categories:
uncared, conflict, life,
Form: Sonnet
Heartbroken
...“The fervent garden grieves as the fallen flowers called love
enwrap the shards of broken heart” – Quote by poet
A sleek crack in remoteness is split open
in the rocky ledge of your ...
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Categories:
uncared, analogy, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
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