The Desolation of Death
...Stripped of the one
Whose existence gave his life
Its energy, shape and motivation
There he sat with curtains drawn
The flickering screen his sole companion
Trying to blot out
The monotonous th...
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Categories:
woodenly, death, lost love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Wordscape Triptych 1
...WordScape Triptych #1
Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell...
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Categories:
woodenly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The New Old Neighborhood
...Now easy prey for rapists and for thugs,
she walked along the streets . Like ribbons frayed,
they ran, pot-holed, where dealers pushed their drugs,
where hoods and vagrants played and drunks lay spla...
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Categories:
woodenly, old, drug,
Form: Sonnet