Category: Personal Faves
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The Not-So-Dearly Departed
It was dark at dusk in downtown Denton and damp in the ditch where the dew had not drained, and, as dead as the dirt daubers down in the trenches, lay Duchess Delaney of Denton’s remains. Once white were the dresses now drenched by the grime of the muddy recesses of Mortimer Lane, and morbid…
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The Thing about Words (Triolet)
(Triolet – certain lines have to be repeated word-for-word in a specific order throughout the poem, changing only in punctuation.) My words can say anything I want, but the truth is that what I really think is bleeding through. And whether or not my words can say anything, I want to force them to do…
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Stalemate (Sonnet)
Two honest thinkers engage in simple discourse. Truth be told, both hearts pitted and hollow, though each knows that passion strikes discord and so refrains; the civil path to follow. Discussion states desires to be swallowed in white and black, with nothing to distort– no frantic fits of anger, fears, and sorrow to sway the…
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A Terse Seafarer’s Verse
(A poem using only the left side of the keyboard! Plus punctuation.) Ever at sea, we sweat, swear. Savage, as ravaged seafarers we are. Steadfast at greed, we swagger, carefree, draw daggers as fast as a westward breeze. Grave faces scarred, a tad fevered at best, a starved, battered crew, few feet at rest as…
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On Meaning
If by meaning, illustrating meant to disconnect and reconnect in scattered disentanglements, to juxtapose aesthetic senses, lost and found inside bejumbled sentences — And then if meaning, ever once intended, rendered beauty thus pretended, and to circumvent would only serve to further muddle meanings as of yet befuddled by the very feelings meant to silence…
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Face-Off
A gruesome deed, But necessary, the one I must Commit. Dirty jobs Entail a bit of Force, a little Grit. Here, I’m faced with a Juicy problem to Knock around a bit… Look, don’t Mean to burst your bubble, but you’re Not hard to Outwit. Pain contorts my face, my Quarry Reddens but doesn’t Submit……