rough draft of the I don't care
...When I was a boy,
I was snarky and coy,
I learnt the lessons,
when the bullies
beat the heck out of me
and too right as this
was my personality
and this little prick
was being such a dick.
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Categories:
vividly, angst, childhood, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
vividly, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
The Start and Finish
...A mama turkey and her brood
Were pecking by the road,
Not far from where I passed a squashed
And bloody mid-leap toad.
It isn’t often that you see
The circle Nature’s made -
The start and fin...
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Categories:
vividly, life,
Form: Rhyme
In the Oneness of Love
...imagery and figurative language
to create the thought needed
In a play to the senses
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Categories:
vividly, character, film, guitar, i
Form: Ballad
Cloud Watching
...When I was younger, I thought that in retirement I would take pictures of or paint beautiful clouds situated so vividly above us.
Clouds more often appear as wonderous displays in the canopy.
Clo...
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Categories:
vividly, poetess, weather, world war
Form: Free verse
Smoke And Mirrors - Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe - A Musical Video- POTD
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POTD June 15 2025
Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
When regulation picks at pillaged dreams
The searchlight shines its ...
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Categories:
vividly, anxiety, emotions, identity, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
California Exodus
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~California Exodus~
No, I do not seek your agreement!
After living in California, I find a predicament.
It feels like I have a brain filled with acrid cement!
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Categories:
vividly, chicago, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Undone
...I am determined to write poems about the poems I’ve already created to alleviate my stress. I vividly recall my first piece about an internet night stalker, who claimed I was like a "dessert rose"—a ...
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Categories:
vividly, age, allah, analogy, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Poet Dies and is Bored with Heaven
...I lounge about, walk about, crocking
a hymn of praise or two.
Heaven, is heavenly,
or is it a fake and fanciful heaven
created
for fanciful and fake poets?
I sit by a sweetly flowing stream...
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Categories:
vividly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
as we metamorphose
...grazed by spirit, our form is magnetised
we vividly sense our aura expand
the stillness point within is realised
soundless thunder mind cannot understand
bliss rises from a centreless fulcrum
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Categories:
vividly, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Say it like it is
...Swimming in the ocean of vibrations,
heart delights on display of sound and light,
where as we imbibe blissful sensations,
the rapture renewing by day and night,
breath by breath we observe ego d...
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Categories:
vividly, joy, light, spiritual,
Form: Rispetto
acrylic paints make me happy
...Colored pencils
Pastels
Sticks of chalk
Too light for me
Water colors
Doing what they want
Dribbling all over the page
Wild and free
Oil paints
Vividly beautiful
Take too long to dry
I...
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Categories:
vividly, art,
Form: Free verse
Chasing the Gray
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Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
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Categories:
vividly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
vividly, muse,
Form: Narrative
Question that demand my attention
...In the silence, a question demands my attention—a voice in my head compels me to acknowledge that these moments mark the completion of the Earth's rotation.
Many people have fallen to the ground,...
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Categories:
vividly, age, allusion, betrayal, business,
Form: Narrative
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