What the Sun Sees
...As I rise,
The moon falls
The wind settles
The lake follows
The sand shimmers
The earth softens
The stars dampen and
The buildings brighten,
A tree houses
A bird swooshes
A flower opens
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Categories:
unthanked, 11th grade, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
Before the City Dawns
...(A subaltern dawn song...)
We rise before the rooster cries,
Before the sky begins to blush,
Before the bosses sip their tea,
We sweep the silence with a hush.
The city sleeps ...
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Categories:
unthanked, absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
Seasoned
...Seasoned homeless men in olive-green and black
camouflage jackets,
whisker-stubbled faces,
fatigued eyes once of youth's brightness.
They not too long ago raised their hand to
swear the oath,
i...
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Categories:
unthanked, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Proletarians To the Fore
...Arm to arm, sinews clutch
One another, makes friend and crutch;
One crimson call, which guidance brought
The feeble, stern: the working lot
To stand much greater, taller, strong
Filled with hope...
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Categories:
unthanked, class, work,
Form: Free verse
Purr, No Chance To Dream
...The worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into a damp-fur snuggle.
It’s Price is Right...
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Categories:
unthanked, cat, morning, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse
Kindly Inclining
...(In the 17th century, when thinkers
were first getting to grips with gravity,
they named it "kindly inclining".)
Seeds adrift on water
coalesce:
fueled by affinity,
they form a community. ...
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Categories:
unthanked, science,
Form: Rhyme
Cloaking Intelligence
...Do you ever feel so joyous
in your own ripple of being
Blissful thoughts in coyness
around your cycle of thinking
Words are a colorful brightness
animated
in laughing amidst a meaning
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Categories:
unthanked, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse