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Kali; Goddess of Time and Change

Kali; Goddess of Time and Change

1 page, updated Feb 03, 2013GCompleted
The poem is a verbal expression of a dream I had in July of 2007. The woman in the dream is my spirit guide who moves me to write and live life. The comparison and allusion here is this guide is Kali mate of Shiva and bringer of renew.
115 reads votes 22 comments 37
Inhabitants of Disgrace

Inhabitants of Disgrace

1 page, updated Jan 22, 2013PGCompleted
Inhabitants of Disgrace was written for a post graduate class; the assignment was to experience homelessness and then write about it. Although it is an older poem I felt it deserved its own page.
61 reads votes 16 comments 30
Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus

1 page, updated Jan 19, 2013GPicturesCompleted
"Ophiuchus" is a double acrostic poem using the first words of each line and letters to name the title. Ophiuchus is the thirteen constellation that the sun currently resides in and it and is known as the Thirteenth House of the Zodiac.
58 reads votes 9 comments 25
Every Day

Every Day

1 page, updated Jan 15, 2013GCompleted
Life of a poet and the brief, hopefully brief, interruptions due to illnesses such as the flu.
95 reads votes 15 comments 37
Blue Trails:  Riding Rod

Blue Trails: Riding Rod

1 page, updated Jan 15, 2013PGCompleted
Blue Trails: Riding Rod was inspired by an obituary of a local man who was "beating his way to" a neighboring town in 1897. Coroners report said that he ... read more
101 reads votes 15 comments 40
Time before Time

Time before Time

1 page, updated Jan 10, 2013G
"Time before Time" is a free verse acrostic poem, but not the ordinary acrostic; this acrostic is a hidden message within the message. To discover the secret phrase spell out the letters that are in bold; did you find it?
204 reads votes 28 comments 47
Tale of a Blue Fae

Tale of a Blue Fae

1 page, updated Jan 07, 2013GCompleted
This is a discourse between Titania and Oberon as she pleads for her husband to return her as his light is absent. Alinda, is a Sanskrit name that means balcony or sup... read more
110 reads votes 22 comments 41
Upon a Ledge

Upon a Ledge

1 page, updated Jan 03, 2013GCompleted
This is a tercet poem dealing with life of bird on a ledge who is observing the life of humans on a busy street in the 1800's.
127 reads votes 23 comments 43
Oblong Box

Oblong Box

1 page, updated Dec 30, 2012GCompleted
Oblong Box is an parody poem of Poe's short story, "The Oblong Box" with a rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b,a,c,c,a.
67 reads votes 11 comments 12
Narcissistic Gods

Narcissistic Gods

1 page, updated Dec 30, 2012GCompleted
"Narcissistic Gods" is an alphabet restraint poem starting with "a" and going to z. The poem is 26 words long with the initial letter of each word beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, in sequence.
268 reads votes 25 comments 43
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