The Eternal Quilt
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We are but patches in life’s quilt—
Tangled together,
Woven as one.
Pull on a thread,
Watch us unravel.
Ignore my thread, and I disappear.
Ragged, jagged knots.
Rocks in my fists.
Bou...
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Categories:
unrolls, blessing, father son, fire,
Form: Free verse
Inspiration
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Somewhere between when sleep overtakes
and then when I'm not really awake
as if on a film running through my head
the reel unrolls a story unfolds
and I never lose the thread
tho' the ...
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Categories:
unrolls, film, humorous, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
One Last Breath
...Start it off with a tiny bit,
But not too much so you can quit.
Still in control with nothing but wonders,
While it watches you fall into a slumber.
Strapped up around your arm,
Feeling no pai...
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Categories:
unrolls, addiction, death,
Form: Rhyme
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 1
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The map unrolls, a skin of dust
where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust.
I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar...
place where my phantom feet wandered, chillier
than memory allows...
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Categories:
unrolls, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Submisive Loser Dominant Victors Shower Of Rage
...The Naked brazen placid blue
Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses
Who unleashes his growing anger and fury
Obliterating and defeating his enemy
Proclaims a victory and unrolls his miserable ...
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Categories:
unrolls, anger, birth, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Schnauzer In Wonderland
...Schnauzer In Wonderland
Down a hole tumbles my dear schnauzer Sean
Chasing White Rabbit, oh no, you’re gone!
Now the kind Chesire Cat
Unrolls a welcome mat
As my friend joins a wondero...
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Categories:
unrolls, dog, easter, humor,
Form: Limerick
The hidden treasure
...As the hail blows down snow mountain
falling white flakes a carpet unrolls
Warm tenderness
touching the heart
inside gentleness flutters
Within ice winds cutting deeply one smiles
Faith s...
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Categories:
unrolls, angel, beautiful, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
To Love, or Not to Love Perfected
...“To love, or not to love?” that is the point,
the focus which men lose beyond disjoint.
To be a god among men, and unloved,
is woe: even wild beasts are not unmoved
by these fragmented, lone, une...
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Categories:
unrolls, allusion, god, hate, humanity,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Twice Forsaken
...black clouds threaten in rumbling roars
and thunderous waves across the hills
life unrolls the worst it has to offer
and in our innocence we wonder
what has made the gods so angry
that our ill...
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Categories:
unrolls, anger, angst, anxiety, fate,
Form: Free verse
Completely Strange
...Not any longer a trace
On Clement’s Peace Maker’s face
Of a once-waiting warm Grace
That would up a cold heart brace
And it ready for embrace.
When Clement unrolls his pace
On the next ma...
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Categories:
unrolls, change, crazy, integrity, people,
Form: Rhyme
Atlas Ponders
...Dawn, and the magpies are black and white ink
on a white sky.
All things sign-write and advertise something,
even if that something is to stay away or
I am invisible.
Before I put pants on and...
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Categories:
unrolls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mental Injury Is Not Mental Illness Essential To Know
...14 years confused on a pitch without the goals
never knowing how I fell through so many holes
as each I fell through another would unfold
the brain just couldn't process storing in the vault
t...
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Categories:
unrolls, education, mental illness, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Superman
...Cape, strength and the mask- of one in disguise
dawn, the light shinning through- here in my world
Oh.. to see your identity- those eyes
Dodging everything at you being whirled
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Categories:
unrolls, hero, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Meth Addiction
...Meth Addiction
Sneaks in like a stealthy and silent thief
Hiding in the cover of darkness
Unrolls its evil desire
To take all of you and leave no remnants
Cells dying, body destroyed
Force of...
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Categories:
unrolls, drug,
Form: Free verse
Kansas Summer Highway
...The sun skips across the Kansas summer sky
as Flint hills run in waves around the horizon.
The Kansas wind scampers around the tall grass
causing leaves, twigs and garbage to roll across the prai...
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Categories:
unrolls, march, nature,
Form: Free verse
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