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F alling in love with Winter; she’s ice cold dressed in snow white lace
A ll the while dating Summer, who’s still sizzling hot
L ove affairs bruised with revengeful reds, oppressed oranges, and yelling yellows
L eaving Summer with a promise to one day rekindle their love
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Hands of jagged cliffs
Reach to cup clear mountain wine
Earthly communion
for Raul's contest - Rhythm of the Falls
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My affirmation deceitfully severed
forever robbed by selfishness
Left to tackle life alone
Tumbling in the wake of my dad's mess
He left when I was three
The crevasse has increased for 33 years
Traded his life with us
For another woman and a couple of beers
He wasn't there to pick me up
When I fell off of my bike
To teach me how to fish
Or enjoy a nature hike
Now I'm a father to my son
Hoping not to make the same mistake
Living day to day on this lake of life
My son in tow through my own wake
It's been nine years and we're going strong
Six more years with my son
That's more with him than I had with mine
My son I guard in a web I've spun
A web of love, discipline, and nurture
Full of "I love you's" and "see ya in the morning"
A kiss before school and one before bed
Lots of playing, talking, reading, and singing
My son doesn't know the pain I feel
To not know my dad in intimate ways
No hands to comfort me or words to heal
No dad in sight for 12,045 days.............................(and counting)
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My son and I have a great relationship and for this I am thankful......
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. Nomadic whispers
North winds speak to the great plains
Warnings of winter
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King of the jungle
Ruling behind zoo bars
Locked up royalty
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Sliding
down
the
spoon
into a bubbling puddle of heroin
Creating the haze
That creeps across the park
Like a dense fog
Swinging on
C C
H H
A A
I I
N N
S S
OF METH
- Like a pendulum on my grandfathers clock –
Tick’
Tock
Tick
Tock (faster)
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tock…………
Swinging on monkey bars of dealers
With their MONKEY on my back
Spinning on the merry go round of liquor
Trying to walk life’s straight line
Tick’
Tick
Tick
Tock (faster)
Teeter tottering in and out of reality
On the courts of life
Playing for the last shot 3…...2…….......1………......
Tick
Tock!
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written for the contest sponsored by Deborah Guzzi
note: this is fictional a poem on substance abuse.
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I’m a young boy
A single mother’s son
I’m a young beach beaten by a tsunami
Sent by an undersea earthquake delivering ripples of death
Carrying my mother and hers out to sea
Ravaged sands asking the sunset to reveal the secrets of the sunrise
I’m a father to a wonderful child
A beautiful wife’s husband
I’m the love in each rain drop of a gentle rain
Nurturing arid hearts with the moisture of my words
Watering seeds of the future with hope
The catalyst for the magic of spring
I’m a teacher
A Painter
I’m the strike of a snake
My fang: a pen’s nib full of black venom
Poisoning compressed cellulose pulp;
The anti-venom: beautiful words
Administered through the ink gracing the surface
A student of verse
~ I am a poet ~
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I was tagged by raul to write a poem that ends with
"I am a poet"
now I'm tagging Elaine George
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elder's spirit born
white fur roams among brown capes
pale face prophecies
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. The yellow cream filled twinkie
A frozen delight,
Try eating it nice and cold;
Tongue enveloping
Tonsil tackling
Throat filling
Cream!
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{throw them in the freezer before you eat them}
inspired by:
sweet treat contest (Laura Mckenzie)
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keeper of secrets
intimate memoirs grinning
visceral hope chest
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