rbennis

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Casual life liver

  December 2021     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

What Next?

Grey sky with spotty rain
Nature changing my happy refrain
Distant echoes of timeless fact
Restrained opinion my mind intact
Lambasting ideas with ending withdrawl
Forgeting the reason for forgeting it all
Lane staying and praying the raining...

– by Richard B Ennis

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Angry Regret

Tiger prints, pillow mints,
life outside of life's tent,
a coughing fit, hours spent,
feeding an ego derelict,
of remorse to salve the soul
of...

– by Richard Ennis

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Snow bound

Watching grey skies dropping the flakes
when jumbled nerves suffice
accumulation sustained without
the ice that takes time to melt
memories of better times produce
the streaks of hope
softened and enveloped
the whiteness and mood will cope
...

– by Richard B Ennis

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Snow bound

Watching grey skies dropping the flakes
when jumbled nerves suffice
accumulation sustained without
the ice that takes time to melt
memories of better times produce
the streaks of hope
softened and enveloped
the whiteness and mood will cope
...

– by Richard B Ennis

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Liven

Pack of cigarettes lying on the floor
disappointment, boredom, not much more
without my glasses
I can't see
angry, tired, hungry
and...

– by Richard B Ennis

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Nice structure, the allegory to modern events remind me of how history is forgotten and repeated cruelly.

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