rkay

cleverly shunned

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returning to online poetry, a nomadic journey

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prose on poetry
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Started this thread on June 9, 2022, but now moving it here. Perhaps as this thread continues to lengthen it shall feature other such poems that have influenced my life and writing. Hope you enjoy this journey as I foresee myself sharing my travels in poetry with you. Cheers, Rik.

 

 

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first ride

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spoken to the tune of Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" about my first ride, a BelAir 57, all those many years back.

tasteful redundance

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ars poesia
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thumping thought

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backburner results
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How a rhyme affects both poet and reader. An imagining.

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stellate shimmer

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...another prior poem shall be given its time to be shared.

potential energy

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published in 2015.

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Jacobin Paranoia

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warmth envelops

dissolving the

bustle and noise

liquid stillness

offers but a momentary

tranquil once upon a time

it is so easy to 

drift off and forget

 

here the watery balm

soothes celiac rashes

a moment's reprieve

that shuts out reality

provides sombre retreat

cares float away

until unwanted thoughts

stray with blistered report

 

it is quite possible

through bolted locks 

to lay victim

to home invasion

for someone to play

Corday to one's Marat

a hapless victim stabbed

at home in one's bath

 
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try getting in a bath with an overactive imagination.

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