Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories:
vertebral, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Unbelievably Great Contest Entry For Brenda Chiri's Photo Contest
...WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING
(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),
As any physical therapist worth his salt will ...
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Categories:
vertebral, anger, assonance, how i
Form: Free verse
Mysterious and Magnetic
...- - The way we were
in poetic form, underlined and understood,
unlaced and then,
exposed –
Like chapters taken from the vert...
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Categories:
vertebral, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Boy Is Deep Asleep
...there he lies in cool African shade
ear-cuffed with strings of music
feeling lost in the world around
caring less about everything else
a wood-pecker stands on his back
pecks neck, mouth, vert...
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Categories:
vertebral, africa, satire, youth,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Gaza of Africa Rejoices In Ruins
...I mourn for the Gaza of Africa stripped naked
Innocent women, children regret being alive
Cities, villages sit in ruins with broken bones
Vehicles sleep with broken backs, burnt bellies
But anger...
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Categories:
vertebral, conflict, metaphor, music, war,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Pedicure Virgin
...I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.
My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the sanctum s...
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Categories:
vertebral, humor,
Form: Prose
Quizz With Broad Hints For Blind Poets
...Quizz with broad hints for poets
the nose bridge
an ear sans fold kneeling on a slab (sometimes
an upward curling lobe)
two upper ears sans lobes both folded into each other
two narrow nos...
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Categories:
vertebral, scary,
Form: Free verse
Warlord of the 21st Century
...Small visions
Staggering insolence
muted souls pinned by vertebral thrusts
lay in feathered wasteland
Spinning tongues imperial platitudes
Right of passage misguided
impenetrable to the ...
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Categories:
vertebral, social,
Form: Free verse