Reflections at night
Are disproportionately
Darker than the day
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Reflections at night
Are disproportionately
Darker than the day
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Two lambs enter mass
The priest yells – “No sheep allowed”
The flock disappears
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A pebble that’s skipped
Is forever forgotten
Boulders turned, never
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Drawing lines.
Building shrines.
Slicing time.
Hiding grime.
Poets paint.
Painters rhyme.
Good guys kill,
for the crime.
Bad guys kill,
for the lust.
Bankers earn,
for the trust.
Numbers lie.
Trust we must.
Letters shade.
Muddles made.
Shades of gray.
Sunless day.
Stormy winds.
Erase our way.
Time will dawn.
New life drawn.
Drawing lines.
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Roses are red with leaf of green
Their thorns prick, barely seen
Beneath all beauty lie the dark
A field of dreams gone with a spark
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Beauty’s a mask of colors we choose
Peel the drape and feel the ooze
Nightmares happen when we snooze
Rainbows lie, violets are blues
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I think.
I write.
I think I write.
I write, I think.
I think I write to think.
~*~
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Conformity bleeds souls
Souls bleed the heart
The heart bleeds blood
Blood bleeds life
Life bleeds insanity
Insanity bleeds ink
Ink bleeds poetry
Poetry bleeds puddles
Puddles don’t conform
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Great writes few.
Good writes great.
Bad write’s good.
No writes bad.
*
No writes wrong.
Write to know.
Time to write.
Right the time.
*
Time is left.
Make good time.
Write to make.
Write to write.
~*~
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To have audience
For this is thus that we must
Venture and truck on
~*~
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Purple skies yell good night to their dozing sun.
Fire lights the shadows, the nights day’s just begun.
Shades pulled on lives within without the stars to guide.
A ball is had in the deep, dancing to rhythms of tide.
Partners forever splash to wash away the light
Din of life slowly fades to the deafening of night.
Eyes shutter, Door hinges squeak there last, and new hands draw air.
Breathing in the day’s last taste, dark of night’s only fair.
While others rest, days run on to beat the clock.
Gates alive awake the walks to open doors that need no lock.
Welcoming all workers be, busily buzzing to make life sweet.
Nights or days at Hannah Belles employ a tasty treat.
Chimes ring out in the square, alerting all to what’s behind.
Reminding all of what’s ahead and afoot and to jog the mind.
Bottomless pools dot the streets, journeys take forever.
There’s joyous voices all around and angry silence never.
Another day in Hannahville, they feed the smiles everywhere.
This factory called Hannah Belle glows without a care.
Whether color gloss or moustache size, styles change, lips stay the same.
Visitors wait in a thin line to leave robust and always glad they came.
First chapter from Hannah Belles Silence (Charlie passes the candy torch)
Coming soon to virtual bookstore near you.
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Engines of plight will grind to a stop
When bloated guts belly flop
Diving high in their oils last drop
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Autos will stall – jets will fall
Ships adrift with no ports of call
Life consumed by engines sprawl
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We’ll burn our peat and our coal
Scavenge twigs when no logs roll
Burn our atoms and homes of ole
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Hope burns rockets for us to roam
In glittered shells, blazing chrome
Turning pages to ash that was our tome
~
Oceans slick with humans last trace.
Now directionless vessels adrift in space
Motionless, still hurrying – to keep the pace
~
Escaping history that was our own
Journey unneeded to a vast unknown
Civilizations die when greed is grown
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There was a blue poet from town.
His nose so red he thought a clown.
He juggled bottles to think,
Drowned in his ink.
His big shoes weighed him down.
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Poetry is words that paint pictures.
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Love and life are poets’ canvases.
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Our forever’s end when never begins.
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Two loving hearts will beat forever.
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Heart beats are music for souls.
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Art is poetry of music’s brush.
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I’ve swallowed every sonnet since I don’t know when.
I can’t recall a single thing that may have been forgotten.
Though when I see your passing blur each day,
I can never seem to find the words to say.
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Your beauty is so daunting it really is unkind.
I’ll be content another day with snapshots in my mind.
A seldom glance, a memory of a time we almost had.
Then rising moon our hearts collude to dream away the bad.
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Perhaps one day when time, words and hearts align,
Our hands will meet, our lips will touch and all will be fine.
But morning brings the darkness, open eyes reveal lies.
Though truth and lies blur in minds, a dream never dies.
~*~
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Poet: Rises to all occasions then writes them down
Poetic begging: Being down on all meta-fours
Poetic license: No rules or tests, mirror-less, wheel-less and driving blind
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Ghosts of the future, death matures infants’ eyes
Growing ever larger to burst in the sky
Distant stars to twinkle bright and high
Bloody torrents drowning souls, gurgles smother cries
Silence will be deafening when the music dies
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Sck110314
There was a young lad spoke limerick
His accent loud and bloody thick
He wrote with illiterate hand
Banged on drums in a band
Left his neighbors holding the stick
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There once was a Gent, half Irish.
Visiting mother’s Isle his only wish.
He half-assedly sailed the ocean deep.
Half way there drowned in his sleep.
That’s half the luck of the Irish.
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There was a young crab on a beach
The tides left life out of reach
With lungs full of fear
And a head full of air
The shell had a lesson to teach
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Sorry for caring
Can’t apologize
Sorry for staring
At the beauty in your eyes
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Sorry to offend
I’d hoped a better end
Sorry there’s no second chance
But perhaps a second glance
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The nature of nature is for life to live.
The nature of life is for nature to give.
The nature of man seems to take natures life.
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Natures life taken ends in deadly strife.
Take only from nature what’s needed to live.
Than nature’s life will continue to give.
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Treasures of yore
Wear of years
Histories eyes
Tomorrow’s ears
Broken loss
Mourning tears
Aged bodies
Have no fears
*
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