The Last Five Senses '1
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By~Krish
I opened my eyes
and the air was a still lake
that would no longer ripple for me.
My breath was a whisper,
a moth beating tired wings
against the glass of existence.
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Categories:
untuned, death, destiny, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Composer
...I am 1,248 songs of complicated rhythm. Prose and verses tell a story of my decisions…my indecision. I am skin shaped, in 42 different shades of foolery, a life lover doing my best to avoid an other,...
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Categories:
untuned, inspiration, mental health, motivation,
Form: Free verse
- Small Notes -
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Frozen window a blackboard to write on
a motivational boost
Smelling romantic moonlight
can be a two-part problem - or shared enjoyment
Sliding down the hill in an open suitcas...
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Categories:
untuned, humor, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Paisley Swallows
...That one lost their tongue
somewhere along the way
long ago, the sound,
doesn’t come out the same
anymore, so they roll it up
like a carpet containing
a nakedly dead body
of blunt words
li...
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Categories:
untuned, muse,
Form: Free verse
Wabi-sabi
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For me you’re designed, mesmeric scarred moon,
grace gleams in the convolute cradle of cyan night,
slithers in the silken sky I create for you,
a turquoise trail you trace in my heart incise...
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Categories:
untuned, analogy, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of Ghosts
...** The Weight of Ghosts *
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We do not truly realize how
Our lives are so crowded, thick
With spirits and messages.
We are as yet untuned to know. So,
We need to sense the fully...
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Categories:
untuned, heaven, imagery, me, memory,
Form: Narrative
Blue Hole
...In the seamless sky of my fervent freedom
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
gliding in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me,
until the split...
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Categories:
untuned, analogy, blue, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Survival Through Revival
...Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who's the fairest of them All?
If you were hoping for InterFaith Power and Light,
what might you need to better empower
and enlighten your community
during Earth's ...
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Categories:
untuned, anxiety, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Perfect Harmony
...Bob on untuned guitar as Andrea sings, “Fly me to the moon”.
01.11.2021
For Tease a Friend Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Bobby May...
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Categories:
untuned, funny, music,
Form: Monoku
Poetry Numbs the Pain
...One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?
As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood, it still refuses to resurface.
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Categories:
untuned, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
City Fire Sparks
...A scratching at dusty glass from piano keys
In a lace attic catacombs chests
bathed in blue panic
room stained window
Hiding from the tell to show
away bitter clown faces without
makeup to...
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Categories:
untuned, music,
Form: Free verse
Dust Had Gathered
...dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps
had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations
the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stic...
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Categories:
untuned, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Carnal Sensibility
...If love is blind, then what is carnal attraction?
Untuned fidelity can be quite the fatal distraction.
A novel connection conjoins souls between me and new.
What is a twisted nail but a substitut...
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Categories:
untuned, betrayal, corruption, divorce, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Deep Blue Oblivion
...In the seamless sky of my fervent freedom
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
gliding in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me,
until the split...
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Categories:
untuned, bird, imagery, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Performer
...You are angst poetry
played on the strings
of an untuned guitar
A smokers cough cord
that grinds like grit in a turbine
Clumsy fingers that slip
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Categories:
untuned, angst, character, guitar, music,
Form: Free verse
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