A Season of Sun
...On this day in May, it was slowly turning into Summer
What a relief after a long, cold winter
My fan had become my best friend
And I loved to wake up and open the shades in my kitchen with the s...
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Categories:
writing table, anxiety, appreciation, beach, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Wait, and words elude
...Like a bowl of dry fruits
There’s a motley of words-filled books
On the writing table,
And like an empty plate
On it appears blank paper,
As if penknife, the pen
In hand, the poet waits,
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Categories:
writing table, poets, words,
Form: Tercet
THREE WISE MONKEYS AND FOUR BUDDHAS
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For years I had three wise monkeys seated on the table where I write.
They would greet me every morning when I first turned on the light.
Reminding me in life…whatever my desires….wants and nee...
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Categories:
writing table, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
An Odd Reunion of Revelation
...'hello
nice to see you again
you are still as beautiful as ever
i see the ring still
i just wanted to say hey
enjoy your time with your family
good seeing you'
i stare at her behind as she s...
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Categories:
writing table, first love, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Stained Glass Pane
...One day—
The sea will be my backyard
Every morning, standing upon the deck
Of the one called Going Numb
A “Greatest Dad” mug in one hand
My last vice burning orange in the other
I wi...
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Categories:
writing table, age,
Form: Free verse
I Am It
..."Thou art That" (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 of the Sama Veda)
You wanna know what’s something you are not?
It is that easy. Take a piece of paper,
divide it into two parts with a pen,
e...
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Categories:
writing table, self,
Form: Blank verse
Fields of Rhyme
...From my knotty pine writing table
Where I always feel strong and able
I have built a world on typing paper
Where I rule mighty as any dictator
I’ve made a comfortable place of it
For all the p...
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Categories:
writing table, allegory, dream, earth, language,
Form: Rhyme
We Exist For Each Other
...We exist for each other
You can describe pain
Once you’re out of its
Singular bout.
In pursuit of outstretching its arms
Time swooped away a soul
Leaving behind in its swingeing saunter
Cr...
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Categories:
writing table, allegory, bereavement, bird, care,
Form: Free verse
A Mess On the Table
...Around the Laptop
On my table
As if garbage dump
That is useful to me
As a worm in it
Opened and a half or a few page read books
Written notes never completed
As if a lunatic asylum
Withou...
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Categories:
writing table, birth, books, change, dream,
Form: Free verse
The Littlest Angel
...Taking my gold black tipped pen
Words flow on white parchment
Like tears intermittent streams.
My baby you are in heaven now.
Son you're in God's arms, not mine.
Looking down at my verse,
Bef...
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Categories:
writing table, baby, faith, son,
Form: Free verse
The Night of the Long White Words
...Angel flesh on the writing table,
hooked on tempered divine,
lifting, blade to blade, raphe to crura,
gray flowing over white, moving fast
to quiet water loud water quiet water,
the cakes and cre...
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Categories:
writing table, passion, water, water, water,
Form: Free verse
Grandma Aesop's Apples - Finale
...Grandmother pointed out warning signs on the apples.
Her strong voice resonated as she referenced bruises and marks.
Her wrinkled hands brushed over minute holes and obvious incisions.
She clutche...
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Categories:
writing table, lifewriting, grandmother, writing, Grandson,
Form: Free verse
Beauty of Poetry
...Verses of creativity in written words;
Crossword puzzle to some.
Others,
Another wasted stroke of the pen.
Ink dances in immeasurable beatitude to the lovers of enchanting expressions.
Paint th...
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Categories:
writing table, art, hope, imagination, mystery,
Form: I do not know?