Words To the Olympian
...XV.X.MMVll - Words to the Olympian
I've rode horses all my life.
The metaphor being,
my life's always been an uncomfortable unsmooth ride.
I'd watched my mom her entire life,
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Categories:
unsmooth, beautiful, bereavement, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
O River of Tears
...A piercing cry
eyes' explosion
a roar
flooding
giving birth to a river
a river of tears
waving like an ocean
tears
in motion
so unsmooth
when the nose escapes
the mouth closes
the face fr...
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Categories:
unsmooth, cry,
Form: Personification
Ode To Lily
...On our disparitive continuum
when after dusk the dawn is flowering
and skies aglow in rose chrysanthemum
have scattered banished darkness, cowering;
And when the silver drizzled fingerlings
t...
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Categories:
unsmooth, appreciation, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Ode
Nightmare
...A waking night can’t touch the pain
Of gentle teardrops in the rain
But as the thing begins to grow
Inside the feelings start to show
And now you’re trembling in your bed
Wondering if the fear will s...
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Categories:
unsmooth, courage, dream, fear, me,
Form: Free verse