The Shepherd
...The staff of my Father enjoining the past
futurity’s herding a bleating morass
The bloodline of orphans forever is linked
tattooing the flock with invisible ink
The first time the last time whe...
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Categories:
untimed, father,
Form: Rhyme
Snow
...The untimed snow rushed insulted against the glassed shoulders on the poster,
and they were made of paper, they were bare…
It cried, scalded, on the painted, colorful faces,
and they were made of ...
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Categories:
untimed, allegory, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Give me your soul
...Give me your soul
My life is an empty cave, I am shouting there to myself
Who are you?! Where are you?! What do you want??!
I don’t know who I am. I don’t remember… Says echo
Just walk and w...
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Categories:
untimed, dark, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Watch
...I used to live in a watch
I followed the movements of the screws and cogs
It isn’t till recently I broke out of that box
Now I live life untimed
Free from the rudementary
But without that...
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Categories:
untimed, birth, change, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Rain Untimed
...
There was a lady in her late thirties
She loved juicy gossip and kitty parties
Kids were two, an older boy and a younger girl
Naughty devils but the lady’s whole world
The lady was...
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Categories:
untimed, angst, beauty, children, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Fata Morgana
...
"Fata Morgana"
feet hardly touch the ocean
when silent stars of no voice
transmit words to pay the ferryman
on the water no reflection
gently the sun waves smiling as...
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Categories:
untimed, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Gale Force
...A tempest swept in,
transporting my thoughts
The past to the future,
and back to today
Recapturing memories,
beginning again
Untimed reminiscence
—the present relayed
(Dreamsleep: Feb...
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Categories:
untimed, time,
Form: Rhyme
Mammoth Drift
...Taken sideways, swept as a web strung spider
Sand sugar legged staggered specimen lured by weightless
Drifters soon to be lifted by unruly tide's violent
Fears ditched for the squall ...
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Categories:
untimed, adventure, appreciation, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cilantro's Molest
...Delicately smoke stacks rose in tendrils
From my lobotomised mind, tracks of steam
Channels which searched for surrendour
Teased unfamiliar air aflame, eventual glean
Chances which blind chase...
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Categories:
untimed, celebration, confusion, crush, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Raymond Re-Examined
...Clusters of refugee bubbles
Expelled from the side of my tank
Rise expanding in upward travels
Escaped depths, burst at surface
Forging against their vigou...
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Categories:
untimed, character, confusion, farm, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Rainy Day
...Th cloud looked like airy anvils drifting under the gleaming disc of the sun,
Suddenly it became churlish and kraken-cruel,
The ansty swollen tar-black and large cloud began to roar in a fearsome w...
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Categories:
untimed, rain,
Form: Free verse
An Untimed Shower
...Seafoam dreams massage deep into my scalp,
as uncomely thoughts drift drain-ward destined.
A warm, white noise water rush of comfort
cradles me back to the days of my womb home,
with the only ...
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Categories:
untimed, baby, happy, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Fantasy Escapes
...No clock can lay claim
to the moment untimed
Though hands finely set
still a mystery divine
Each tick plays a cadence
to what is now past
But what of the future
its measure uncas...
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Categories:
untimed, time,
Form: Rhyme
Fancy That
...Fancy that?
You didn’t think?
Fancy that?
You didn’t care?
Years alone with only you to feed my solitude of despair
Years alone, in my mind planning your hurt - some evil kind!
Fancy that?
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Categories:
untimed, cry, dark, death, irony,
Form: Dramatic Verse
An Ending That Rhymes
...If you knew the words were killing you,
would you choose then not to write
Would more calendar days still left to live
make up for the darkness and blight
Would the time by days now measu...
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Categories:
untimed, death, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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