Flower Chide VI, Stemrise
...Toward Scent fold’s vale they cleaved the green,
Where wind runs thick with things unseen.
“Is it justice you seek or just her place?”
Lotus said, his voice low, draped in grace.
The blossoms pau...
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Categories:
uncoiled, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
A Vine In Winter
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The dry stem of a lonesome vine of vivacity,
now painfully curled, rooted frozen,
entwining the desiccated verdant veins,
sways chilled in the winter wind of desolation.
The sleeping passio...
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Categories:
uncoiled, analogy, change, depression,
Form: Free verse
3 Am, Devil, Again
...Eclipse begs beasts bays: Chaos and Havoc
as the scheming plots a clock, e'er so close.
Ill sprites hover and bobble ... spasmatic
entities let loose their suffering throes.
Screams ...
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Categories:
uncoiled, dark, evil, fear, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Interview With a Coiled Snake
...As I walked through a meadow singing a song,
I heard a hissing voice say, "Hello. Come along."
It came from beneath a patch of thorny weeds,
whispered, "Are you one of those good seeds?"
I feared...
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Categories:
uncoiled, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Critterature: a Gaelic Fashion Statement
...A giraffe who was new
At the Aberdeen Zoo
Heard a bagpipe askirling one day.
He tracked down the player
And offered to pay her
If she kindly would teach him to play.
He gazed at the piper,
A H...
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Categories:
uncoiled, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
On Shores of Eternity
...In the deaf woods of curious willows
lies stalwart beliefs of days bygone.
Retribution, restitution, resolution
resolve, beginning our journey.
Blinded by bewares of sours ungifted
lost constitu...
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Categories:
uncoiled, cancer, death, senses, violence,
Form: Free verse
An Amazing Grace
...Awakened from an afternoon nap, I arose
and peeped out through the veranda window.
My weary eyes suddenly burst wide open in utter
amazement at what was being canvassed before them.
There, sitt...
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Categories:
uncoiled, child, high school, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Our Heart Contracts
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Our heart contracts, when thoughts spiral
Ego spawned goals seem foiled
Exhume before fears go viral
Flash point, ego uncoiled
Vigilant and mindful
Let’s make life beautiful
Vi...
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Categories:
uncoiled, heart,
Form: Rhyme
The Water's Tender Surface Hides Horror
...DEAD are these fathom of times by change; lies
of not tongue but heart, nay, soul as dead coral made
as now ocean die and her pearls wilt and destroyed
by poison of mankind.
All fades by that ter...
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Categories:
uncoiled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Dried Summer Windstorm-
...Ceasing vision as a kiss viewing blurred;
I'm blinking fluttering beliefs sentiments;
So a precured glimpse visual perceptions;
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Grays whites viewed bombarded glimpse of dim mist;
In th...
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Categories:
uncoiled, analogy, conflict, storm, summer,
Form: Imagism
Broken Faith
...With flaming pen
The beast inside me scratches to remove,
Fingers pulsing with my heartbeat growing
What will prove
To quit and quiet or sparkle softly,
In the distant night.
What would it pr...
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Categories:
uncoiled, angst, atheist, conflict, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
Makaveli
...In loving memory of a legend deeply missed
Taken 2 soon which gets me pi##ed
The best musician in lifes childhood
Highly misunderstood by ignorant do goods
Wrongly accused of so many crimes
Puni...
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Categories:
uncoiled, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Roses of Agony
...I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
While I cling to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony...
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Categories:
uncoiled, anger, grief, pain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Batter Up, No Longer
...From outfield judging eyes await your plight,
though sweat and stupor feign to your ruin.
Now pull up your trousers, cinch your belt tight...
glaring down from mound, pitch straight and proven.
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Categories:
uncoiled, allegory, crush, endurance, passion,
Form: Sonnet
The Dilettante Diaries: Open Door Barefoot
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The Dilettante Diaries: "Open Door Barefoot"
Open door to closed room
Ceiling smashed
Stars in a very clear sky
Fresh air
taken into lungs
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Categories:
uncoiled, freedom, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
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