Feeling Irie Now
...My joy surrounds me with character
beauty essence I bow to the on lookers
I dance to the sweetest sound all over town
of lovely joyous Caribbean tunes melody
opens my eyes just one more time...
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Categories:
wingtip, allah,
Form: Epyllion
Imprints of our Shoes
...We tramp along the fire-trail to see a water view;
The sand is damp from morning rain, and imprints of our shoes
Are stamping in beside the chequered tracks of cycle tyres
As Brett relates the na...
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Categories:
wingtip, bird, environment, nature, people,
Form: Ballad
The Dream Prowler
...I've always known you
to be a monarch, a fairy
golden wingdust scatter
all over my psyche
Do you remember
when we were flightless
like caterpillars?
Now you fly in a private jet, I bet
Do...
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Categories:
wingtip, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Dare I Wish
...From each according to his ability
gains little traction in a world
where ability is so obviously diminished
just take an honest look around you
sound bites are no longer protection
against an e...
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Categories:
wingtip, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Oh Joy
...Oh joy, why must you dance just out of reach
fairy princess - mocking – shimmering wings
flitting through a realm of restless dreams
haunt me, sweet princess, with your soothing speech.
Awake, ...
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Categories:
wingtip, joy,
Form: Rhyme
If I Had a Secret Life
...I look up and shield my eyes from the sun.
Wipe my tears, wishing I had a secret life.
I feel the stare of the neighbors around me.
Neighbors without blinders as they labor
whispers...
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Categories:
wingtip, emotions, fantasy, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Mud Flats
...Crossing the mud flats
of the bay daily,
on 137,
back and forth,
back and forth,
I see lives with choices
and freedom.
Birds free to take wing
and float on a warm
updraft,
bask in the s...
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Categories:
wingtip, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Break a Wingtip - For Contest
...harbingers of hope
heavenly understudies
waiting in the wings
4/3/2016
submitted to – Senryu on Angels – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Marvin Celestial...
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Categories:
wingtip, angel,
Form: Senryu
U and I Are Different
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: U And I Are Different
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: November/1987
U and I are different
we choose/not 2b
what NOTS R -
We know/that
NOTS-R-nots,
and
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Categories:
wingtip, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
The Whittler
...There's a knack to carving wood that most don't have.
It's the way whatever you're carving changes in position and
expression with the pictures in the grain,
Even a shock of hair twists fro...
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Categories:
wingtip, cowboy-westernchange,
Form: Bio
Hurricane Memories
...HURRICANE MEMORIES
That blasted storm
had come up the coast
all the way to New Jersey;
nothing could stop it.
The pigeons were diving
coasting sideways
one wingtip to the sky
the other to...
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Categories:
wingtip, animals
Form: Free verse