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Poetry Tuesday – Irreversible Damage
Painted smiles on ceramic masks can shatter, Their falsity revealed on tender, tear-streaked cheeks. Concrete walls built high and proud can be demolished With a wrecking ball of harsh words, Piercing holes, further damage inflicted on an already scarred heart. A persistent enough enemy can breach any barrier if patient, Find the key of destruction…
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Tuesday Poem – Words in Verse
Let my words in verse Tell a story over-rehearsed. If truth be found buried there, Stop searching elsewhere. Perhaps hidden beauty tainted Resides in the picture painted, Speech no longer open or plain; Only confusion purposeful will remain. 12/31/14
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Poetry Tuesday – Yesterday’s Ashes
Pictures merely tell the rumor of a half-remembered story, A book with pages tattered and worn, yellowed with age, The ink faded and dull, dying to eternity. Memories fall away like rain dropping down glass, Fogging the view, warping the truth, and sliding to death. All is fleeting and passing like a silent train in…
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Poetry Tuesday – A Little Lost…
Sometimes I feel, As we age, As our edges wear ragged, We sharpen and do more hurt, Rather than dull the blade And even put the sword away. I am left wondering If we ever learn To choose kindness over cruelty, Compassion over judgment, Truth over lies. But the record spins, Round and round, The…
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Poetry Tuesday – This Moment
Do not be so quick to wish away this moment, For before you blink, it’s whisked away, forever, Unfolding like all previous moments on life’s vast canvas, Stretched tapestry seeming to move beyond horizons in all directions. Or is the moment folded in upon inside itself, A hidden dimension undetermined and reduced to a singularity,…
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Flash Poetry – Not So Nuts About Nuts
Another brownie has died a dishonorable death At the mercy of the trash can Instead of sacrificing itself to my stomach. Rather than greet my tongue With the smoothness of chocolate Melting on my tongue As I savor each morsel, My taste buds are stabbed With crunchiness galore. Never put nuts in brownies.
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Poetry Tuesday – Empty
Smiles fall false from cracked, closed lips, Breaking, shattering, exposing the lies, Lying hidden so long, The only truth the bitterness and anger — Released in bleeding, beating ugliness. Scorn, judgment, misunderstanding greet, Eyes afraid to meet, Hearts no longer beat, Walking this path alone down a dead-end street. 03/29/15 Like what you’ve read? Please…
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Poetry Tuesday
My Beauty – Red, White, and Blue My beauty, she flies for everyone, In times of rain, in times of sun. I close my eyes and try To see beyond each lie, For falsehood is mud That longs to cover up the blood — Blood spilled with each life given For us and the land…
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Poetry Tuesday
Tuesday is the day I share one of my poems with you. Beyond Words, written 03/14/15 Words, perhaps preformed, fall from lips before their time, The truth in them still hidden in cracks, Where fall the lies away; In the fullness of time, truth forms itself to completion, Its transcendent quality grasping, Then holding firmly…