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  • a poet’s playground
    • alternate avenues
    • evocative muse
    • meditation relaxation
    • reflective healing
  • a poet’s art
  • a poet’s kitchen
  • a poet’s notes
  • contact
  • budding green
  • about
  • a poet’s playground
    • alternate avenues
    • evocative muse
    • meditation relaxation
    • reflective healing
  • a poet’s art
  • a poet’s kitchen
  • a poet’s notes
  • contact

a poet's playground

it was home

she couldn’t escape
her fate
was sealed
in a room
made of brick and steel

the room
had a window
over
a door
felt like a tower
she was stuck
between floors

a baby crying
all night long
daily noises of
sirens

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it’s so cold

 

it’s so cold
beyond a red nose
or rosy cheeks

it’s so cold
that the bones feel frozen
brittle
breakable
it’s so cold
breathing is unbearable

it’s so cold
that the limbs stuck in one place
shivering
shaking
slowly stiffening

it’s so cold

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bottomless pit

a bottomless pit
of breath and clarity
a bottomless pit
of reflections

the addictions
the contradictions
the attractions
the abstract
the construed

less confusing
when broken into pieces
perplexities
sink to the bottom
and the elucidations
rise

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backside of rain

watching
the drip
the drop
a cascade
the backside of rain
filled with reversed rainbows
the clarity is unequaled
spilling
and
splattering
droplets
unifying upon contact
no pitter patter

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winter’s breath

winter’s breath
left
a taste upon the air

clean
crisp
with wisps of white
feely floating

a chill

not so cold
to make one shiver

knowing that warmth
be fireside

a bite

not so bruising
to make one quiver

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full wolf moon

1st full moon
of the year
state your intentions
loud
and clearly believe
that the energy
shared
will
lighten burdens
in the darkness
of winter

hunger
lurking
in your

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