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The Critic: riddle
Who tears apart, but never builds; in summer, says he prefers chills; proclaims “I won’t” when others will; expects to never pay the bill? Who tends to “no”, withholding “yes”; predicts more failure than success; looks to curse rather than … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, criticism, critics, illusion, negativity, poetic forms, relationship, riddle, self-denial
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She Saved Me: brag
If she don’t know it, it ain’t worth knowing; all my good ideas, she had when she was still growing; the movie of my life, she saw the preview showing; she was up winning my race before I started rowing. … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, brag, daily poems, feminine energy, gender, poetic forms, praise, relationship
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The Dance: balada
And there upon a hardwood floor the dancers gather, to once more repeat the steps and spin around betwixt mid-air and solid ground, their minds affixed on meter’s mark, the breath between time’s light and dark, a march toward a … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, balada, daily poems, dance, formality, illusion, poetic forms, relationship, tradition
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The Conversationalists
There is small comfort in that fragile peace that rests uneasy when we sit and talk around the countless things both needing said and those much better left unshared. Between the spider and the web of lies that catches us … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation, innuendo, interaction, relationship, silence, speech
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Nothing is more true: a terza rima
How much more could I love you than I do? It surely may seem possible, and yet in those dear days left to me (all too few) to think that I could possibly forget or cast aside the one light … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, love, NaPoWriMo, partnership, poetic forms, relationship, soul mates, terza rima
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Deep End Abilities
You coughed, turned your head, said are my eyes still red? Some mornings I just can’t get out of bed; feels like I’m sleeping with the dead. You laughed, rolled your eyes, then you cried about the suicide. Some mornings … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, apathy, dependency, failure, independence, relationship, word play
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