The Wabi-Sabi of Tintern Abbey
...Things bloom more beautiful when breaking down.
The nave now ploughs through foams of flowering trees,
a frozen caravel. Kissed by the breeze,
the river surface suddenly seems to frown
exquisite...
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Categories:
wrest, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Heartbroken yet not broken
...“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” –H.C. Paye
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Categories:
wrest, anger, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
MinceMeat Chronicles RagMag Interview Double Bogey
...I reed-member the time when
we were down ; we were suspended by
the promoter in the South Side League
this guy owned both a Hockey teaam, a Roller Derby Team
and he was a Wrestling Promoter.
I g...
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Categories:
wrest, adventure, analogy, business, character,
Form: Ballad
Thought of the day
...death’s the ultimate earth life test
a reality check that chokes
what we hold onto fate does wrest
whence we see this dream life’s a hoax...
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Categories:
wrest, death, desire, fate, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Kind Words
...Imagine!
" Kind Words", revealed as piercing bands
of sunlight gently melting mist of morning dew.
Shredded strands of light appear blazing
through leaves blanketing forest deep.
Restrain ...
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Categories:
wrest, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Under the Surface
...Friend,
Silence listens,—every thought we think,
each new feeling which soundless trickles by,
the twinge of untold pain, the snuck-in sigh,
are registered within the margin’s ink
Friend...
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Categories:
wrest, conflict, humanity, hurt, introspection,
Form: Italian Sonnet
pause the cause
...“may gifts of silence illumine our mind ~
childlike heart becoming loving and kind”
~ quote by poet
as we gather pebbles in our heart’s nest
we may do well to pause and t...
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Categories:
wrest, desire, self, silence, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Covid Prelude to a Seminal Moment
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Most Free thinkers ought then to agree,
that this 'Cabaal' has always been,
Quite sophisticated, hidden
Although very devious utterly,
Yet openly subversive,
With its insipid evil meth...
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Categories:
wrest, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wondrous Words - UPDATEx2
...w o r d s
wondrously wielded
warm wenches
wise with witless wet with woe
w i c k e d
weaselly wolves
w i z a r d s
warping wills
watering wishing wells
waylaying wishful
w o m e n
who wa...
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Categories:
wrest, heartbreak, women, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Milton of Croton
...Which speaks: or yo whom is in
concern
competion among contenders
to be champion one must
wait his turn
ranked among the best one must
chore and labor
to stand head tall above the rest
one mu...
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Categories:
wrest, america, community, food, history,
Form: Bio
Memorial Day 2024 origin of holiday
...Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday
Strong and brave men and women
gave their level best
crème de la crème
strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others
with emotional ago...
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Categories:
wrest, absence, america, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
My Land
...My Land
This is my land.
I will cultivate, love, and cherish my land.
I will choose when Spring will come,
I will choose my own Husbandman,
I will choose if there be none,
I will choose ...
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Categories:
wrest, abortion, allegory, baby, extended
Form: Free verse
A guide suspended by the thread of time offers itself
...A guide suspended by the thread of time offers itself,
Where the soul clothes us in garments of flesh and beginnings.
The filigree of words breathes on the parchment of eternity, intertwines,
Spea...
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Categories:
wrest, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Forro Part Two Glams and Glamorous
...Former champions (World Heavyweight and Tag Team champions)
were managed by manager Solfege Virtuoso. Trying to regain
their now lossed titles
the manger withdrew them from contention
and disallo...
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Categories:
wrest, business, culture, education, film,
Form: Bio
Just because an impetus arose
...Just because an impetus arose...
to repost poem
(I chanced to locate
amidst plethora of poems on hard drive
of Macbook Pro)
written more'n a half decade ago
before yours truly
blissfully ob...
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Categories:
wrest, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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