Waker-Upper
...A butterfly, aliferous,
of subtle slights, soniferous,
common spirits, days just went by,
aliferous . . . a butterfly.
Low pinnacles alight sought rest
forgiving sun favors spread ...
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Categories:
waker, appreciation, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Confidence
...Confidence,
I've journeyed through life,
happily knowing
I was never alone,
parental--assuredne...
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Categories:
waker, appreciation, beautiful, bible, confidence,
Form: Verse
Sipping Coffee
...A sip of the elixir that invigorates the soul.
The euphoria that it gives calms the nerves.
A fuel of one's enthusiasm to face a new day.
Waker of one's slumbering blood.
Like a burning sunri...
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Categories:
waker, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Coffee Crumb Cake Critique
...*Image of Freed Fountain Pen by Pixabay.
Coffee Crumb Cake Critique
Coffee, dawn's waker-upper, cause to rhyme,
The second cup broadens your eyes, sublime,
Noontime, pot per...
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Categories:
waker, analogy, endurance, motivation, writing,
Form: Couplet
Eucharistia Phos
...Wine is the mother of all
Bread is the son who made all
Wine leaks through the gigantic wall
Bread makes that very loud call
This is my body and blood
The bread is the kind waker
Yet is t...
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Categories:
waker, christian, mother, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Mini Earthquake Experiences
...Experienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago)
My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa
And now this puny earthquak...
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Categories:
waker, environment, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Him
...I pray to HIM, the destroyer
Destroying is his purpose singular
He reveals the duplicity of a sleeper
Not in him, the forceful energy of a waker
Yes, I prayed deeply to the destroyer
After I s...
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Categories:
waker, atheist, philosophy, solitude,
Form: Light Verse
Dream
...Someone
Wakes you up,
Early in the morning,
When roosters
Are still while
Their heads are
Hid in the fold of
Their wings,
Stealing your hour
Of sleep,
There's a feeling
Of reluctance
Of...
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Categories:
waker, dream,
Form: Free verse
Island
...Long ago a thunder struck a comet
And its fragments took wings to float
Landed on a village, crossed the bridge
wandered all over, and found a sea
And a ship as well to carry them
To the land o...
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Categories:
waker, allegory, allusion, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Journal Entry
...I lacked a lot of sleep these past couple of months.
and abandoned the routine I’ve grown so comfortable with
in this time by myself.
I didn’t realize how much slack was in my learning curve latel...
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Categories:
waker, family, hope, life, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
When Ur Days Won'T Smile
...How does the world feel when we cry
How does the world feel when we die
I'm headed to a place as gentle as a slow melody
Where we can walk in peace without it being a felony
It's hard waking up t...
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Categories:
waker, caregiving, hope, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Mistress of My Night
...a word with pain is soothing
Alore acursed my heart today
The fold out of it's tastire left me blue
The move of it's pearl speeks memory
let nutral sea fall too ashes
beganing every verse with ...
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Categories:
waker, adventure, love, peace, sad,
Form: Ballad