Work In Progress 3
...Your not going to believe this but I forgot that Jeanne Rosemary comes before Robert Earl.Probably because I am mad at her for not trying hard enough to live.She was the one who wagged me as her very...
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Categories:
viney, discrimination, french,
Form: Free verse
Work In Progress 1
...I was born the eighth among nine siblings .One sister Gladyss Darlene ,seven years older ,died after five days from a condition she would have probably survived had she been born in the hospital.I ha...
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Categories:
viney, growing up, home,
Form: Free verse
Stone
...Hidden under the honeysuckle
and hibiscus
Lies a stone.
And as I sit, drinking a gin and tonic
Looking over the spent plates
where crusty bread
fried calamari, which is a fancy word for squid,
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Categories:
viney, absence, america, art, beautiful,
Form: Acrostic
Ned Kelly's Brother
...Kelly Ghosts!
Dan Kelly lived and Steve Hart too,
though the police thought they had fried.
These men were written off it's true,
though two bush rangers ha...
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Categories:
viney, adventureold, people, men, old,
Form: Rhyme
Silt Blue Woman
...On the slick cement porch of my Grandfather's house,
I saw the deepest blue flower across from the red dirt road.
Embraced in viney branches, it slowly opened and revealed
A woman with blue silt s...
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Categories:
viney, art, imagination, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse