Communion of Joy
...I am curious about when
and how
you find joy,
or at least achieve brief contentment
during your day,
enduring your night,
endearing your days
between nights.
And, yes, also curious
about w...
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Categories:
unscreened, earth, health, integrity, mental
Form: Political Verse
Old Town Past
...OLD TOWN PAST
Gone: the Market where cows sheep and pigs brought telling perceptions
The images, noises and smells of the farms to the town
The tweeded farmers with leathery limbs and faces
And...
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Categories:
unscreened, history,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden Digits Revealed
...Four hang ups, no messages left.
Bereft of those moments near the phone,
a lonely heart could only hope it was you
who called while I was required to be away.
A pay phone call would disguise my I...
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Categories:
unscreened, devotion, mystery, perspective, teen
Form: Free verse
View From the Bridge
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station
Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each passing train
Web of steel and of steam entwined vil...
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Categories:
unscreened, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy
Old Town Elegy
...OLD TOWN ELEGY
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace tha...
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Categories:
unscreened, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy