Storms Will Pass
..."over the waters blue the night winds sigh,
The breakers roar... " Lord Byron
"Over the waters blue the night winds sigh
The breakers roar..." Waves collapse before my eyes.
I catch my br...
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Categories:
wavey, metaphor, sea, storm,
Form: Ballad
The Musings Of A Mouse
...Last night I was human.
I was my "normal" self.
Somehow, I've shrunk by five-foot-one!
Now I'm a mouse upon a shelf.
My heart sinks as I look down
Upon the cat that was my friend.
No purrs. M...
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Categories:
wavey, animal, dream, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Curtains
...CLOSET DRAMA
Setting: Two friends working out how to create a beautiful garment from the curtains. And planning an escape.
Characters:
Giselle (G) An innocent young wo...
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Categories:
wavey, character,
Form: Verse
Crows In the Wheatfield
...The country road split the wheat field in half
A murder of crows seemed to prefer the right
Hope they leave some to winnow from the chaff
Crows seem but wavey lines against the night
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Categories:
wavey, bird, farm, life,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Cool Evening Airs
...The cool evening airs
Sweeps across her moonlit hair
Gently laying, bare her extraordinary beauty.
By a pleasant breeze of fragrant air
That blows gently across her wavey hair.
Hypnotically twis...
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Categories:
wavey, beauty, desire, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Silver Surfer
...I saw an old lady at home
Whose habits bizarre when alone!
She thinks she's abroad
On her ironing board
Surfing tides in a wavey zone.
Her arms and her legs were well spread.
Her curlers tuck...
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Categories:
wavey, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Eighth Grade English
...Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions
Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable
m...
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Categories:
wavey, culture, earth day, grandmother,
Form: Political Verse
Bodhisattva Myths
...Creation Stories
Salvation Narratives
regenerate,
together win/win co-operate
bodhisattva risks
and universal opportunities
for mutual co-investment
In sacred meaning
as also interdependent...
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Categories:
wavey, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Juggling Bouncy Paradigms
...Martha Rogers
brought dynamic nursing relationships
of co-acclimating healthy minds
and Earth's well-being subclimates,
While Carl Rogers
brought empowering therapeutic relationships
of coope...
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Categories:
wavey, art, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
No To Xenophobia Ii
...THE REPLY FROM THE PRESENT TO THE PAST
(NO TO XENOPHOBIA II)
With the paper on my hand
I wondered what to do as I stood confused
Welcome home,
O my son of my pen days
for what I h...
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Categories:
wavey, africa, anger, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Prose Poetry
***** Music
...They lived across from each other
on and off the center floor dorm hall,
both on the much discussed
controversial LeftWing side.
Yang perused Yin's CDs,
"I see you like that ***** music,
Elto...
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Categories:
wavey, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Resonant Nonjudgments
...I would not judge someone
and then some dreadful thing
or some nasty place
or some too distant time.
Let me, instead,
invite judgment from
that one relationship in real spacetime,
Until we...
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Categories:
wavey, community, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Categories:
wavey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Three Real Life Crush's
...Number One
She's tall and over fifty
with black and grey wavey hair
She comes to the library so often
I sometimes wonder why she's there
She like all the rest of us
plays her on line games
I f...
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Categories:
wavey, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Social Climbing Jacob's Ladder
...I wrestle with against vulnerable boundaries
to invasive intimacy,
left unlanguaged yet right felt dismay
could not sustainably remain
without being said outloudlyish
in some bicameral bilateral...
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Categories:
wavey, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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