Things Lost Somewhere in This House
...Things Missing Somewhere in This House
My birth bertificate…
A box of needed, new bank checks…
Both of our wedding rings…
My Waterman fountain pen…
After 4 decades, at least 3 doz. of Jim’s odd ...
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Categories:
woefully, family, heart, jesus, loss,
Form: Prose
Tell It Like It Is
...It comes like the message unsent
It didn’t disappear, at least
The time we saved was unspent
Just tell it like it is
There’s no need in the deep insight
Better put your face to the breeze
A mir...
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Categories:
woefully, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Seance
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“The Seance”
It was macabre you see,
we were all summoned,
and therefore found ourselves
in the front parlour of Ballylee;
In our dreams
we thought we were poets
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Categories:
woefully, muse,
Form: Narrative
Always to remember
...Always to remember
Stillness, silence marks the day
Where out in the fields bodies did decay
Row upon row of entitled tombs
A baby was once in her womb
Always to remember
The sky ablaze, su...
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Categories:
woefully, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
Stardust on Autumn Leaves
...Can you hear a stardust song woven within the wind?
~ by poet
Stars awaken from daily slumber within the Milky...
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Categories:
woefully, stars,
Form: Free verse
Into the Void
...More vacuous verse to the void:
abysmal, of meaning devoid.
A reflexive spasm
sends more to the chasm
where anemic arts are destroyed.
Escaping, strange thoughts from my head
go written but l...
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Categories:
woefully, writing,
Form: Limerick
I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty
...I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty
America - This nation will remain
the land of the free only so long
as it is the home of the brave.
courtesy a local Indiana man,
one name...
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Categories:
woefully, america, anger, angst, crush,
Form: Free verse
Arabique XI
..."Oh, my dear, when will you lose that kirsh kabir?" I say woefully.
"When we go to the gym, dear," He said sentimentally.
Eventually they had made love with their own bodies....
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Categories:
woefully, arabic, dedication, language, love,
Form: Sijo
Mini-Couplet Couplet:The Tails of Two Kitties
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My two neighbors' homes view my full yard in the back.
The younger man has a dog and the elder man has a cat.
They knew all ought t...
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Categories:
woefully, angst, anxiety, betrayal, character,
Form: Couplet
Longing Love for long
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My longing for love was so lethal
I swear on the lasting love
I went looking for love everywhere…
but found love nowhere.
I was so woefully wounded
I swear on severed spirit
I went sea...
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Categories:
woefully, lost love,
Form: Alliteration
THE WORD vs THE WORLD
...THE WORD vs THE WORLD
Wise words wield weapons versus woeful worldly woes.
Wondrous words wage war against woeful worlds
Wielding wisdom, wit, and worthy worth.
Words weave witty wisdom, wardin...
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Categories:
woefully, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Remind Me Not, Our Love Was Lost
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I first read Lord Byron's poetry, after a love was lost.
Each of us going separate ways; sorrow, the high cost.
Byron wrote of his grieving in 'When We Two Parted,'
of how lovers might leav...
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Categories:
woefully, lost love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ceaseless Constellation
...sometimes I sing
antique anthems,
of the nights
I was confined
within a bottle
of diamond tears,
wept woefully
from the widest sky
that held kaleidoscopic stars~
amidst festooned f...
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Categories:
woefully, deep,
Form: Free verse
SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.
Deforestation dehydrates the c...
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Categories:
woefully, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of Purr - First Draft
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I heard a song, so sweet it rhymed,
Below the ground, nah! above the sky,
Echoes of purr woefully chimed,
Seducing me, nah! fiddling a fly!
Again, my day ends in pretty blue,
Behind the log, h...
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Categories:
woefully, animal, cat, music,
Form: Sonnet
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