Death May Be Your Santa Claus
...Another morning gone. The warp and weft
of kids and errands seems a sort of theft.
I love to listen to the phone-in show,
Peoria Euphoria K Seven, Illinois,
the kind of thing that housewives can ...
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Categories:
untasted, life,
Form: Rhyme
Seize the Day
...Seize the day!?Seize the day,!!?Seize the day!!!
Once I cried “carpe diem”—pluck each moment bright—
But now I know: no soul can truly seize the day;
We can but watch it vanish into night.
Time...
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Categories:
untasted, age,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of The Lucky Man
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The Ballad of the Lucky Man
She visited me at 15
Like an untasted maelstrom of tempestuous emotions
She whispered like a midnight seductress
So mysterious and so enchanting
She st...
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Categories:
untasted, love,
Form: Rhyme
Blessed And Highly Favored
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Blessed And Highly Favored
Miracle Man
4/26/2024
I know that I’m blessed,
and highly favored.
Because my love for Jesus,
has never wavered.
When near death,
I returned from the ...
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Categories:
untasted, blessing, death, god, health,
Form: Quatrain
Persimmon
...love long ago departed;
like persimmon buds; now, just
spring flowers ever parted
in afterglow of young lust.
Where pink flowers did carouse
soft, ripe red fruit heavy hangs
on cold winters ...
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Categories:
untasted, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Hourglass
...Duluth Warmbilt factory blanket
placed over his shoulders
after dinner cookie in lap
untasted
facing out the long
double-paned window
grinning hard
scaring the new hire
A skull she thinks
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Categories:
untasted, age, death, old, winter,
Form: Free verse
If I Never
...If I never lift up my voice,
How will I know
How sweetly I can sing,
Or its tenor,
Or how well I harmonize
With the music of the universe?
If I never open up my heart,
How will I hear
The ...
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Categories:
untasted, introspection,
Form: Free verse
There's So Much Left To Learn
...There’s SO MUCH Left to Learn!
There’s so much left to learn, dreams I hope I can share
that I haven’t touched yet, more new dawns still to bloom.
And I’m blessed by my m...
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Categories:
untasted, love,
Form: Rhyme
Stuff My Therapists Says
..."Everyone says they're tired,"
Said my couples therapist,
"That can't be the thing."
I was wonderstruck.
My approach was all wrong.
As it turned out
I had all the time in the world.
I was ju...
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Categories:
untasted, time,
Form: Free verse
Islands In the Stream
...Islands in the Stream
Islands linked together like forged argent charms,
In straights of silent, surging currents,
Where Watchtowers of Fresnel lens sound fog sirens
Where sacred shoals harbor...
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Categories:
untasted, adventure, introspection, journey, light,
Form: Free verse
The Stage
...A godless mass afraid of Death,
though unfettered by rebellion against God.
Uneasy calm imposed by modern gadgets,
global alarm from nations once revered,
A surge of pestilence from the east
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Categories:
untasted, anxiety, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Ballad
Be Thankful Each Day
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Be Thankful Each Day
Written: by Miracle Man
11-28-2019
Lord, I oft take for granted,
many little things.
Because some of these objects,
don’t produce pings.
They often tend to s...
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Categories:
untasted, africa, care, food, god,
Form: Lyric
Duty To Love and Family
...Before me laid an untasted bowl of candy
And the duty owed to family.
Do I satisfy my long craving self
Failing to respect responsibility ?
Or to my lover's vows turn deaf
And pay homage to agei...
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Categories:
untasted, 11th grade, creation, family,
Form: Free verse
The Invisible
...Broken dreams and despair walk the street,
Searching for a place to sleep.
Standing on the street corner with dirty clothes and long stringy hair,
Begging and asking if I have change to spare.
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Categories:
untasted, fear, feelings, lonely,
Form: Couplet
April
...April took the best of everything
anesthetic corpses, love killed love
Bruised all over before it fell from the tree
buried again, body untasted but the seeds are everlasting
The only way to ...
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Categories:
untasted, april,
Form: I do not know?
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