So Close So Far
...My ambitions elitist
reality bourgeois
My palate continental
taste buds still raw
My ambition ennobled
vocation unhailed
My reality sordid
—future travailed
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...
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Categories:
unhailed, life,
Form: Rhyme
Poems Omega Minus - Parts Three To Five
...III
Kept out
kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
and the usual conning courtesies
Kept shut
Involuting in the hippo-lipped paranoïa
from the darling eyes o...
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Categories:
unhailed, inspirational, time, time,
Form: Free verse
The Park -- Part One
...Pigeons flutter in the park
eating refuse from the grass.
Noon comes; the hours pass.
Leaves fall; the sky grows dark.
Silence reigns throughout the park.
A crumpled headline, forgotten toy --
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Categories:
unhailed, angst, caregiving, childhood, death,
Form: Rhyme