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On Optimism: blank verse
One can suppose those clouds are silver-lined, that just around the corner lies great joy, and what appears today both bleak and sad tomorrow may turn out to be rainbows. Let anyone suggest such dandy things and all the world … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, blank verse, daily poems, division, futility, illusion, optimism, poetic forms
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No End of Days
The world has not yet made its final twirl around a sun still managing to burn; the seasons, although changed somewhat of late, continue with their ceaseless promenade. Both wise and foolish prattle on no end, with new results no … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, apocalypse, blank verse, change, daily poems, fear, inevitability, promise
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I Love the Way: a blank verse
I love the way the world unfolds at times: in sudden spurts of random energy that interrupt a boring, same old day; and with a moment’s notice, nothing more, release some new unknown into the mix. I love the way … Continue reading
High School Reunion Musical
Someone told me once we never grow beyond the point we turn the age eighteen: what insecurities we carried then still manifest themselves throughout our lives. That makes those speeches every June (you know the ones that say life’s just … Continue reading
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Tagged blank verse, daily poems, high school, maturity, reunions, sonnet
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The Shallow Water
a poem in blank verse Again, the conversation turned to fate; and as the group was interested, to chance, the lines of battle drawn between the ones who thought the world predestined yet misshaped and those who found perfection or … Continue reading
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Tagged blank verse, conversations, daily poems, destiny, fate, foolishness, plans, poetic forms
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A Hard Freeze
When the temperature drops with the sun, there is a stillness that comes on the world: like a blanket of crystal on the lawn that mutes out even the low sound of breath, or a layer of gauze, chilled and … Continue reading
Disconnection
In that too brief moment when the old leaf, released from the now hibernating branch, finds itself adrift on an air current, floating in limbo between sky and earth, doubt may raise its ugly head and whisper, urging secret fears … Continue reading