ON SECOND THOUGHT: AN ALLEGORICAL SUMMATION
...ON SECOND THOUGHT
(An Allegorical Summation)
Who would have wondered and ever thought
That Alexander Pope would be as relevant today
As he was in those treacherous times when he penned
Tho...
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Categories:
wallow in, allegory, anxiety, courage, forgiveness,
Form: Prose
The truth hurts, doesn't it?
...You moan about how we say life isn't fair
But it shouldn't have to be fair for equality to exist
Life being fair isn't being born into luxury
Its being rich in safety
An automatic right we all s...
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Categories:
wallow in, discrimination, jobs, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
A World Apart
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A World Apart
Is this what we have become
a world apart
Why is there this hallowed blackness
emanating from the shrinking sun
leaving all blinking
as we wallow in the shadows
Why is...
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Categories:
wallow in, deep, emotions, world,
Form: Narrative
The Bargain
...Generally, I am on
the Clean Side; but,
garden soil is my
rich exception --
I wallow in it,
a piggy for the scent
and feel --
Sort of like, training
wheels on bicycles
are for sissies,...
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Categories:
wallow in, caregiving, garden, grave, nature,
Form: Free verse
Consequentia
....Consequentia (L)
(A lone voice whispers)
Like the Sagittarius A* Black Hole, at the centre of our own known galaxy.
Does getting older make you slowly swallow more and more former memories?...
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Categories:
wallow in, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Randall vs Randall
...what is left of me,
once you have taken all that I am?
what words are left for me to wallow in
after you say goodbye?
in who's arm do I find comfort,
now that mine have been shackled?
how do...
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Categories:
wallow in, absence, addiction, anger, august,
Form: Free verse
Torn Apart
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I’m torn apart… my stomach is in knots… shock and hurt find me… ricocheting through out my body…
Is this my plight now?
I wallow in my torment…
I weep endlessly…
Will this affliction never...
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Categories:
wallow in, angst, sad, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Untreasured Memories
...What could be more pleasurable than this?
I muse to myself as I reminisce,
when each limb was pulled by a diff'rent horse,
that magic time when I went through divorce.
I am roused from protectiv...
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Categories:
wallow in, dark, humor,
Form: Couplet
Museum of the Past
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I visit the Museum of the Past in my memory.
Still life paintings I stroll through, lazily, my hands clasped behind my back.
There, the glass you drank from, still holds the print of y...
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Categories:
wallow in, emotions, heartbreak, memory,
Form: Free verse
Clouds
...Clouds spiral down and curl around to touch me
—not those western drizzle shrouds
baring a soul of misery mizzle
...though I adore a good wallow in sorrow —no
these clouds come from yonder blue...
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Categories:
wallow in, beauty, growth, happy, longing,
Form: Free verse
Our Time
...It is just another day
To be used as we like
To choose joy as our companion
Or embolden friction and strife
It is just another hour
To spend as we desire
To embrace love as a mentor
Or wallo...
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Categories:
wallow in, appreciation, character, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
why wallow in the shallow
...joining the dots, mind game inane,
tracking pitter patter of rain,
the pull of divine magnetism,
cascading in body-mind prism,
God’s benediction healing pain...
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Categories:
wallow in, introspection,
Form: Quintilla
I Am Your Servitor
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I’m just your servitor, here to serve your every need
Where I am wholly here to serve to your every whim
Crawling on my hands and knees until they bleed
Trapped within these chains wrapped aroun...
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Categories:
wallow in, beautiful, deep, muse, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Blue
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I can’t hear you
Though I feel every word you say
They run through me
They consume me
I think ill wallow in them today
Just for a while
I wish things could be different
And it’s weird ...
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Categories:
wallow in, desire, for him, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
The beat goes on
...Since you have been gone
A lot of water has passed under the bridge
A mixed bag of events have occurred
Leaving behind earth-shaking calamities
Difficult to quantify
As confusion like w...
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Categories:
wallow in, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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