• for sake of the lesson I added punctuation…don’t get attached.

    gravity slip

    I stumble thru a world
    that’s bent slightly outa focus
    as if it were half dream,
    half burn.
    heat risin off my skin in waves
    like quiet embers tryin
    to decide if I’m worth ignitin.

    every breath feels wrong,
    every step lands heavy,
    gravity clawin up my s…Read More

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    • Sheer brilliance, Syr 253👌

      You’ve mastered the heatbeat techniques of Free Verse poetry: Imagery, deeply gripping emotion, metaphor, spot-on line-breaks, seamless enjambment, syntax; and, except for the distraction of missing “g’s”, your diction and spellbinding flow would be irresistibly captivating to the senses.

      Also, your well-placed…Read More

  • ok…not a fan of haikus apparently. they’re harder than I thought. wrote a whole bunch wrong and had to start again. then my favorite involved a pond. I saw SeaCat’s and thought damnit…let’s not both write ponds. ultimately I realized I’d rather write a thousand sonnets than a single haiku. but I definitely learned somethin.

    clouds file past t…Read More

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    • LOL!
      Two ponds would be just fine, but I’m quite chuffed with this one, myself!
      Now, that’s a splendid Haiku, 253.
      Ditch “the” and replace it with something meaningful, like “gold moon” or some such and it’ll sparkle on the page✨

  • I said I don’t do this. poems that behave
    that count their beats and beg to sound profound
    but here I am the fool you couldn’t save
    all rhyme and reason. love still hangin round

    I hate this form. it’s polished. cold. confined
    like scrubbin blood just so it stains again
    I tell myself to leave your heart behind
    but every line just drags…Read More

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