Demons and Fireflies
...Major depression crept in,
seeped through my defences like smoke,
the devil shimmying off my shoulder,
setting up a nest in my brain-
a puppeteer of despair,
fingers dancing on my strings,
turn...
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Categories:
unresting, dark, depression, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Outback
...
The wind blows across
empty cattle yards
and tailing mounds
from old copper mines,
across open spaces
that spread beyond
boundary fences
and the reach
of railway lines,
way out past
t...
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Categories:
unresting, city, culture, earth, history,
Form: Free verse
Yet, More Than a Brother
...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l...
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Categories:
unresting, allusion, analogy, beauty, character,
Form: Alliteration
Puzzlement
...It’s a tryingly featured world to be in,
In which every restless heart minds
Pleasant principal affairs of its own;
Where spurned soul no solace finds.
It’s an unresting space to occupy,
Whe...
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Categories:
unresting, conflict, crazy, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Yet More Than a Brother
...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l...
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Categories:
unresting, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother,
Form: Bio
Choiceless
...Since gales do by Nature’s arm blow
In dizzying storms far from the shore,
So even choiceless boats must move,
As unyielding gusts so restless prove.
Not every motioning vessel afloat
High ...
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Categories:
unresting, abortion, adventure, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
At Last
...The thought I found home in
was the silent voice
of my unresting soul
as it stretched its enchanted wings
at last...
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Categories:
unresting, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Minds Coarising Hearts
...In our Physics Departments
our most salient awareness
grows
of those nature-spirit entities
most easily seen
and heard
and smelled
as animated and animating,
sometimes more,
sometimes less,
...
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Categories:
unresting, art, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Restless God of Wind
...Awakening from slumber it thrashes around,
that which was once, now completely unbound
It shouts at earth with an unsettled mind,
it bashes and smashes destruction entwined
The might of the w...
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Categories:
unresting, analogy, anxiety, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Jack the Ripper
...Jack the
Ripper,
He walks &
talks,
Like an
ordinary
person.
Is he a
psycho
murderer,
Or a serial
killer,
Maybe a
famous actor,
Or a police
constable.
He is
bloodlust
terr...
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Categories:
unresting, mystery
Form: Epic
Victim's Retribution
...A butterfly's steady and respectful dance draws the eye,
The unnaturally slow beating of it's wings against the air,
Thick and heavy with stale and decaying ashes,
Air that would dry and choke the...
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Categories:
unresting, death
Form: I do not know?
At 10:00 P.M. On Tuesday In November, There Are No Attractive Women In Walmart
...Though the same might well be said for the men,
My brain is not on autopilot for them.
On a hunt for portable heat through a whipping wind
I approach the glow of our collective cornuco...
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Categories:
unresting, fantasy, imagination, introspection, mysterymagic,
Form: Free verse