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The Spark You Can’t Explain

An inner heat Growing from your chest Catching your breath At their merest scent Phantom touches And whispers in the dark The spark has you in its grasp Love or lust You can’t decide Maybe a bit of both A … Continue reading

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Ode to Dang It

With a whimper and a cry My day will limp along Gloomy mood Hit by sour sales After I claimed success Lost track of time No urge to bike Breakfast tasted funny Stubbed my toe on toys Yanked to the … Continue reading

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What is Your Love?

Taking on the Community Storyboard’s love theme of the week.  This is the poem that I posted there. We forget that love Can take so many forms Parent to child and back around Friends standing together Until the very end … Continue reading

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Limerick Challenge

LindaGHill wanted me to do a limerick, so here is my attempt.  Hard to find the rules to this thing: There was a young man from New York Who only ate hot seasoned pork In morning and night He ate … Continue reading

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Arachnaphobic Acrostic

Scuttling along the ceiling Pausing to look down I lay below in exhaustion Daring not to move Even when you lower Right onto my face

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The Halfling Wedding

Fuzzy feet ran through town Scrambling to prepare Tents go up and chairs set down An event was in the air The village waited in their seats As bride and groom were hid For a day they were the elite … Continue reading

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Unseen Friends

They live close to our heart Though we have never met Friends from the ether Connected by words Read off the screen Somehow we found each other And decided to hang out Creating bonds of virtual light That dot the … Continue reading

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Hometown Changes

I have walked this road From stroller to today Witnessing the changes My supermarket died Yet the bowling alley stands A streetlight by my high school Wish it was there for me Old signs still on the library New signs … Continue reading

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Butterfly Haiku

I had a haiku That was perfect in my mind It died in my sleep Seriously, I this haiku about something popped into my head as I fell asleep.  I couldn’t save it.  All I know is that it was … Continue reading

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One Step

Today I took a step Nothing more And nothing less It was a tiny step Barely noticed By those I hang around They ignore my step Declaring it illusion From their other path They forget it is my step I … Continue reading

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