The Classless Jealousy
...Jealousy is not the portion of the unsuccessful alone;
even the prosperous are consumed with envy.
Jealousy is not the lot of the poor;
even the wealthy are corrupted with spite.
Jealousy is ...
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Categories:
witchery, jealousy, life, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Beauty and the Beast
...Here rests the realm of the
thorn-tongued truth ~
a mortal mirage of doomed pentacles,
where forks and kettles speak
the language of witchery,
the dialects of the diabolical,
listening as ...
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Categories:
witchery, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Plagued by Memories
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Written: April 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
Quote: "We chase the light, but darkness stays, memories twist in mysterious ways." By Poet
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Categories:
witchery, analogy, memory,
Form: Free verse
Trial of Bridget Bishop
...Salem Village, Massachusetts
May 11, 1692
Of evil works in league with the devil, I am accused.
Spit upon, bolts tethered in chains, I have been abused.
People mardle I cast spells of palsie to...
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Categories:
witchery, feelings, history,
Form: Rhyme
Rococo Seduction
...O lady, banish my monochrome days
and weave your coppery threads into
a dim red florescence of coyote words;
There you stand draped in beige chiffon
against the Tomistic piety of a striptease s...
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Categories:
witchery, appreciation, happy, sea, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Mariah
...Is the wind alive? That’s what the Choctaw believed.
The Apache called it, apocryphally, “the breath of the world.”
To them, the wind is the trickster you never see,
a joker on the plain of life...
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Categories:
witchery, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
The External World of The Internal
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“The External World of the Internal”
when the Internal
finally woke up,
it was like all the words
in that book, flew at It
like flaming arrows,
an external bar...
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Categories:
witchery, humanity, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Cocoon
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"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of ...
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Categories:
witchery, muse,
Form: Narrative
Cerulean Seclusion
...In blackness,
I hear forked tongues
whisper wicked witchery,
hope within arthritic
ink slowly f a d e s
as darkness descends
upon snow-speckled heart,
and a murder of...
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Categories:
witchery, angst,
Form: Free verse
Uncertainities
...In poetry, love and wisdom intertwine—a heartfelt love poem can carry profound wisdom, and wise reflections often touch upon matters of the heart. ????
Psalm 90:6
in the morning it springs up new, ...
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Categories:
witchery, africa, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Helter Skelter
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"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles
apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my bed/so much hating too much lying chaos just ...
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Categories:
witchery, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Witch
...Wicked cold wimp weaving
Wrinkled woes on Samhain
Warlock of witchery
Waving threefold fiction
Whilst hanging on chaos
Wretched and worthless from
Wor...
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Categories:
witchery, funny, giggle,
Form: Pleiades
Witchery
...We both found tenners
at our own happy diversions-
mine on a jog, she
with her boyfriend walking.
She waves passing
in her yellow mini
the very moment she’s crossing
my mind. Another...
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Categories:
witchery, anxiety, extended metaphor, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Witchery
...You can shout it from the mountain tops
While you dance and sing
Serenade me ‘til the music stops
It still won’t mean a thing
You can light up all the words you say
Maybe mingle in my rhy...
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Categories:
witchery, break up, heartbroken, moving
Form: Rhyme
Aborted Trauma Tales
...When you and your wife visited,
you shared a question asked by a pastor
of a raped
and thereby pregnant
vulnerably young and questioning parishioner.
"If your unborn child survived
his first ...
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Categories:
witchery, abortion, death, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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