Siren's Mirage
...Tomorrow’s lullaby
in footnotes to Dylan
Tomorrow blistering
confronting the sun
Tomorrow lingering
while calling your name
Temptation disguising
what’s never to come
Tomorrow’s redemptio...
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Categories:
unmaking, time,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow Unpromised
...Where would we be
without the bomb
Was Einstein a savior
or devil aplomb
Our power the fire
all enemies dread
Till stealing its physics
unmaking our bed
The world on the edge
of a loomin...
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Categories:
unmaking, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Anonymous
...Blossomed solitary, a flower unseen
Colors missed; hues ignored
Fragrances ne'er sniffed
Scattered into emptiness
By planters 'n florists
Makers unmaking their creatures
Leaving them dereli...
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Categories:
unmaking, age, angst, character, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Her Logo
...IT WAS SUPRISING TO HIM
HE DATED HER FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND
WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE HAD MARRIED
NINE MONTHS BACK, HE STOOD SHOCKED
AND AMAZED.
SHE SMILED AS IF JIS FEELINGS WEREN'T TO BE HURT
O...
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Categories:
unmaking, adventure, marriage, music, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Unmade
...Prose…
Has a room built in
For the reader
To crawl inside
And sleep
Maybe
More than one room,
Unmaking all beds
That the Poet
—has so carefully made
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2...
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Categories:
unmaking, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
My Thing Is
...My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.
Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation ...
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Categories:
unmaking, color, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Orphan King
...Estranged from the familiar
you made me by unmaking me
for getting tired too soon
of fostering
like I was
an unwanted child,
yet still you are the one
who have become unparented;
an Orphan ...
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Categories:
unmaking, blue, divorce, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Nature
...Unmaking the bond
between cause and effect.
You start throwing stones
as a mark of intimacy.
Ipomea:
You wanted to learn the
art of blooming silently
at dawn.
Huddled like solar flar...
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Categories:
unmaking, art,
Form: ABC
Ancient Sins
...Drunk with pride
the streets are bursting
in self-indulgence.
Who was calling the shots ?
Do you know the words
between intermissions, carry a secret-
till the brazen scoop
finds the hidden meaning...
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Categories:
unmaking, art,
Form: ABC
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two
...Part Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope
Now we stand aghast before this edi...
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Categories:
unmaking, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
If We Were Back
...Where once we laughed, bent over our middles,
pounding the table, or just smirking with a rueful
“Oh, my God”, sort of way, could I forget the silent beach?
Rustles of sand at my window as you walk ...
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Categories:
unmaking, fantasy, forgiveness, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Excavations - the Perspective
...I tried to fly
God knows I tried
To bring the cherry back
For children in the nest.
I told old Daedalus
It was the weight of sorrow
That kept me
In the labyrinth dark
Shivering before the mi...
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Categories:
unmaking, lossold, children, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Lost Enlightenment
...My sentence: repentance
The prison in which I was the cause
Their motions; their reasons
Where everything was nothing I could want
My mindset; my music
The void that danced along with my soul
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Categories:
unmaking, happiness, hope, introspection, life,
Form: Lyric
Bleeding Addiction
...I speak......the silence unmaking my words,
for here the shade of broken time does dwell.
I scream and fight to make cuts with these cords
that bind me closer than the ghosts to hell.
F...
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Categories:
unmaking, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, passion, teen,
Form: Lyric