'Twas Naught His Night
...Be there the bight of a November drain
turned off tattered ruffles blotted feign
a ledged I removed and tender earlobes
waif yonder spectral possession probe...
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Categories:
unsorted, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
You Wouldn't Know Cupid's Arrow If It Shot You Right In the Face
...Once a wish, always a pipe dream
You would’ve known what it was if it came true
Let’s swap journals and see what we find
Show me the life you think you’re living
And I’ll show you mine
Your ...
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Categories:
unsorted, anxiety, best friend, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Silent Rage
...There are folk, in church or non-church family
Abounding in warmth; "Hi folks!" with charm
Least expected ... On the couch, deep memory:
Kind misdeeds, intent ignored: ...
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Categories:
unsorted, anger, betrayal, bible, bullying,
Form: Acrostic
Following People and Things, and Not God
...IN GOD'S WILL
NOT THINE OWN
OR, OTHERS TO FOLLOW
BECAUSE OF BEING ALONE.
A LONG ROAD AHEAD
A PRICE MIGHT PAY
LATER ON IN LIFE
IT MIGHT COME BACK SOMEDAY.
GOD'S PLAN FOR ONE'S LIFE
IS THE...
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Categories:
unsorted, change, encouraging, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Parmnesia
...Fall back into lucidity,
A surrounding
Where there is no such thing as clarity.
The power that is confounding.
Your world is confused and distorted,
Nothing in order,
All is unsorted.
The ...
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Categories:
unsorted, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
You Cannot Tell
...You can't tell a conservationist by the colour of their skin,
You can't tell a conservationist by the hat they wear,
You can't tell a conservationist by what comes out of their mouth,
You can't te...
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Categories:
unsorted, allusion, analogy, art, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
Carrion
...The lumps of flesh and bones lie nestled
in the rotting leaves littering the forest floor.
How long it has lain there seasoned by the rain
as worms work through the tattered tissue.
She approac...
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Categories:
unsorted, animal,
Form: Free verse
My Man Cave Closet
...In my man cave, is a closet
Which would spawn horrible critiques
Totes full of old computer parts
Some of which my be antiques
Various plumbing parts abound
But Lord knows I'm not a plumber
G...
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Categories:
unsorted, conflict, perspective, places, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Reflecting the Brake From Back In the Day
...Let bygones be bygones though bygones bite on
Blessed to have had good times it’s life it went wrong
though it hurts good memories
to the end they’ll always be
my friends and never enemies
mea...
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Categories:
unsorted, forgiveness, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Crying At the Crib
...It's sad to say but we're pathetic today; cuz we're
childishly crying at the crib
We're screaming, and shouting and drooling at the mouth.
I swear we all need bibs.
Tear stained faces contort...
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Categories:
unsorted, anger, bereavement, betrayal, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Crowded Loneliness
...~~~ {There's a crowd, there's a crowd, there's a crowd of
loneliness} ~~~
Here I sit surrounded by party people bizz, buzzing gleefully.
But I'm in the pits down in my zone, So I can only see...
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Categories:
unsorted, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Broken Pieces
...Broken pieces
intermingled
scatteredshatters
unsorted
reassembled
a mosaic of madness
blending
scars and flaws
into the beauty
of a shared life.
John G. Lawless
©3/10/2019...
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Categories:
unsorted, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Change
...Nothing is new the robin on the branch or ice on pines
Each rain sparkled petal folding on its eye to sleep
When night with one stroke erases light
Years of clutter unsorted in the mind
Ending or...
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Categories:
unsorted, change,
Form: Acrostic
Paramours Masks
...by Mark Miller
08/20/2017
Alone, longing for belonging other than the countenance presence of the daily shape-shift vagabond
Who seems morbidly obsessed in search of his past missing remembrance....
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Categories:
unsorted, analogy, anxiety, home,
Form: Blank verse
Mind Games
...1.
God, how I hate (when I can't go to sleep),
HATE the feeling sleep never will come.
In moments like this, I wonder if my death
Might be a lover with real potential,
Though the possibility of ...
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Categories:
unsorted, anxiety, beauty, god, love,
Form: Free verse
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