Decrepit roots still cling
...The palace of love we built ~
when our blood still flowed very warm in our veins,
is now a crumbled castle —
its walls with peeled paints and decayed wood;
a jaded clock and fad...
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Categories:
unthawed, loneliness, lonely, metaphor, old,
Form: Free verse
Frozen Side of The Sun
...Trust ~
a mourning sparrow
f o r s a k e n in the russet rush
of monstrous myths,
clouding the cashmere cusp
of dawn’s delicate arms~
of love’s liquefied thorn.
While I trace the wrinkled ra...
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Categories:
unthawed, angst, dark, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Snow On the Mountain
...snow on the mountain
dark lines and grooves visible....
love continues still
spring swiftly erupts
the mountain hidden by snow....
love breaks through the chill
unthawed snow remain...
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Categories:
unthawed, age, love,
Form: Choka
Judge Not, Lest You Be Judged
...Judge Not; Lest You Be Judged
Judgement preys on mankind’s weak,
The fickle-minded soul
Where ignorance and hatred peak
Begins the tragic toll…
Where ...
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Categories:
unthawed, anti bullying, hope, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
She Was Not Fooled
...Frozen stiff like a cement gargoyle
Unthawed and unreceptive
The stoic man turned a cold heart toward the throng
Determined to hold onto his bitter outlook
Closing his heart off
Pretending to be...
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Categories:
unthawed, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandparents,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pleasant Pain
...Asunder have all my classical forms and themes been torn,
Who tore them?
Who destroyed them to bring the poem down to the earth?
Yes, I did.
It is I who is now cold like a fully unthawed polar o...
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Categories:
unthawed, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Worshipers At the Mountains of Madness
...Worshippers at the Mountains of Madness
Worshipers at the Mountains of Madness
zealots seeking kinship of distant god
await the searing wind of cold duress
tattered clothe - torn robe - begg...
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Categories:
unthawed, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Song of the Phoenix
...Trodden down and beaten out,
That is me for you and whole of the world.
While inside me I still shout,
"Wait to see my rage unfurled".
Since long have I been messed and marred,
Raped, ravaged...
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Categories:
unthawed, blessing, encouraging, faith, humanity,
Form: Verse
Love's Fools 2k11
...Love likened strikes as quick as a viper;
Therewith love's pulse billions grow more so fools.
Love - accurate as a military sniper.
There's fools of unthawed hearts; Than there's love's fo...
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Categories:
unthawed, happiness, love,
Form: Quatrain
Lavender
...
Beautiful, soft, lavender
P
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T
A
L
S
Fell from the heavens to blanket
The cold hard ground
The steel and concrete a...
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Categories:
unthawed, confusion, friendship, love, thank
Form: Rhyme
The Day's Adventures
...My daughter asked me what I did today...
I told her that I built a violin
I carved the wood and polished it
I strung the strings with resin hands
'till the notes flowed like the human voice.
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Categories:
unthawed, adventure, daughter, happiness, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Treats
...Morning time...waking with sweets in my mouth
cinnamon carameltmarshmellowed out
breakfast cereal Sugar Dynamite
secret prize inside,bestows x-ray sight
Sugar shock,tooth rot,'60s psycotropic l...
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Categories:
unthawed, imagination, candy, morning,
Form: Narrative