Embodying the Light
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Light withdrawn
Expands again
approaches dawn
clucks the hen
Constellations fade
Skies o’erspread
glory arrayed
chickens fed
Rising ...
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Categories:
unspeaking, color, light, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
My Savior Is My Insanity
...[ Y o u c a n ‘ t b e f i x e d i f y o u h a v e n ‘ t b e e n b r o k e n]
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My immune system lay strong, yet I was burdened with many health issues; my treatment has healed the ...
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Categories:
unspeaking, adventure, body, how i
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Whispering Trees
...There’s no time for poverty
When there’s magic in the air
So long as there’s food
There’s no need to care,
And a watertight roof
Over a persons head
And the music of trees as
He lies there...
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Categories:
unspeaking, appreciation, child, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Dinner and a Dream
...Candlelight dinner just you and I
Romantic music in ample supply
I pull out your chair so you can sit down
I in a tux, you in a gown
Your sparkling eyes, lit up by the flame
Translucent sapphi...
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Categories:
unspeaking, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Funner To Be Kind
...Easy to be cruel
against sublime unitarian longings
stewed in outdoor green/blue sunshine
reproducing universal solitude belonging
Within this multiculturally hued
resilient solidarity
I like...
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Categories:
unspeaking, caregiving, education, environment, fun,
Form: Political Verse
Strait
...I’ll exit in quiet and angst-hastened steps
Over the sanded dust on that jinxing floor;
And with well-metered gait soon shoot out
Into a sea of blank faces beyond the door.
I own I must pity ...
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Categories:
unspeaking, allegory, anxiety, christian,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Finis
...Uncharmed by the bloom of fresh roses white,
I shall with the mute prop of unspeaking sticks,
Like a bored mollusk loathe my slowing walks;
And pine for eternal still with wee cursing clicks.
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Categories:
unspeaking, adventure, allegory, death, happy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Unknown Stillness 9
...UNKNOWN STILLNESS 9
To know for the first time
Stillness beyond mere silence
And deeper silence manifest in stillness
And to know for the first moment
That all will be well
All is well
An...
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Categories:
unspeaking, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany
...Great poetry is spoilt in heroic times
That go unsung on emotional climes,
In rhythm-laden occurrences in life's
Countless merrymakings and strifes.
And so why do we say crisp verse
Comes...
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Categories:
unspeaking, art,
Form: Lyric
Epiphany
...Great poetry is spoilt in heroic times
That go unsung on emotional climes,
In rhythm-laden occurrences in life's
Countless merrymakings and strifes.
And so why do we say crisp verse
Comes...
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Categories:
unspeaking, art,
Form: Lyric
Part Two
...Death
Eternal Void
Unspeaking fear
there's no place
to hide
nor somewhere or some time
nihilism and other thousand of verses
just to explain one terrible feeling
what if the consolation
is ...
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Categories:
unspeaking, analogy, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Raw Emotions
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I was a little girl holding mothers hand-
unprepared for the harsh and brutal image
of my sister being run over by a truck
the image raw graphic violent and terrifying
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Categories:
unspeaking, childhood, death, mother, sister,
Form: Free verse
Paladin
...PALADIN
Expert but understated taciturn lone hero
Sherlock Holmes fiddling with a violin solo
Then James Bond then Richard Boone
Then Terminator and Bruce Lee (died too soon)
But today’s hero is th...
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Categories:
unspeaking, funny,
Form: Couplet
Gutter
...… scattered jazz,
haunted gnarls of
octupi-night staggering
between semen-splinters of stars
pain-fornicating in
my collective gutter, my disheveled
cells oozing your
black and
softer gold
b...
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Categories:
unspeaking, love
Form: Free verse
Fire and Ice
...Truth lies in these eyes of mine.
You won't look into,
Cannot immerse yourself in...
What's real.
I'm not trying,
Fear of failure or something wicked,
Do only morose things come out of feeling?...
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Categories:
unspeaking, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
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