The Gist of Time
...Sing songs muses muse blueberry pies
Sung blues one day the muse all died
Hail the stars that distance hath grace
Earth star hath turned anew took place
Traverse the constantly cached s...
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Categories:
verged, analogy, time,
Form: Couplet
Creation
...The beginning began where there was no beginning.
Darkness doomed the days of still waters ,
While the virtue of the earth remained a void,
harboring space for creation.
The Universe became a ...
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Categories:
verged, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
...I knew my ancestry and my dad was a joiner,
But verged on disowning my mum for labour,
Not married in history yet throbbing with spark,
Love, truth, kindness fibered the gelled dark.
A stunner...
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Categories:
verged, christian, death, emotions, history,
Form: Quatrain
Open Market
...Carried by the sights and smells, he waxed quixotic,
with sounds of vendors hawking wares, quite hypnotic,
a smorgasbord from mundane to the exotic,
yet all the while, undertones verged on chaotic...
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Categories:
verged, culture, imagery,
Form: Monorhyme
The Poems I Never Wrote
...~When "light upon yon window” aims to break
into my hollow head by early dawn,
such brilliant prose pours in as I awake
but by the time I stretch those words are gone.
And like two roads that ...
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Categories:
verged, angst, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Mary's Fork Is Flat and Harnessed
...Mary's fork is flat and harnessed.
Ageless her husband had witnessed
Amusing. She downs spaghetti
Noodles with a glass of ice-tea.
Kneading though air perfect noodles,
Take care if thickens it...
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Categories:
verged, food,
Form: Rhyme
The Wisdom of Men
...Eminent Doctors and professors
Did meet, at a prominent place
For their prominent feats
After much preamble; they sat down
Face to face; their table was long, a
Shiny space.
Their gizmos an...
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Categories:
verged, bible, education, irony,
Form: Didactic
Sidereal Generations
...My genealogical family tree
was traced by a relative distant,
thus uncovering ancestral names for me,
of some who had seemed nonexistent.
The past came alive in my fantasy world
with visions o...
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Categories:
verged, analogy, family, history, music,
Form: Verse
Addiction Ii
...Addiction II
I listen carefully to gage what you are covering up
To hear if your words are slurred
Or your outlook too bleak,
Or if you have verged into mania.
I tell myself,
This is the natu...
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Categories:
verged, addiction, sister,
Form: Free verse
In a Forgotten Field In England
...He had no insight into the mysteries
Of the gilded sports
Of the British social elite,
By the time he arrived at his beloved college,
Long, long ago in a long-forgotten England,
And in later ...
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Categories:
verged, dream, education, england, memory,
Form: Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part One
...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; ...
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Categories:
verged, heartbreak, places,
Form: Rhyme
Avenues of Autumn Turn
...Grassy verged mounds
On a country roadside grace
Where a canopy of browns
Declare autumn in place
The branches rise
While winter nears
As if they were praising the sun
Allaying their fears
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Categories:
verged, inspirational, nature, seasonsautumn, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
My Ethereal Journey
...Quite uncertain of what awaits me,
I searched for the road that will set me free.
I’m trapped in the fog of my present and past;
oh please release me from this invisible cast.
Helplessly bound ...
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Categories:
verged, faith, hope, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme