Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
August 2, 2024
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it tastes so good
It's safe and familiar
Like my neighborhood
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it knows my name
Wagging that tail
It's totally tame
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it's always the same
It doesn't go changing
And hurting my brain
I hang on to my hatred
To ward off the pain
It's a great place to hide
From the Universal stain
I hang on to my hatred
So the acid in my guts
Can find a new home
Instead of driving me nuts
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Dosseman, losers, Poetry
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May 11, 2024
life comes at me in rhythm
words come at me in rhyme
toil teaching wisdom
the only place is time
walk along the seashore
frolicking in the snow
tasting all the sunshine
existing as i go
Wystan and Emily
sang a sonnet just for me
silently throughout the years
it danced a journey to my ears
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:children's poetry, Children's Literature, Dan Foster, Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Rhyme Zone, W.H. Auden
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April 7, 2024
Got a new snork vorple
It's really kuper-kippy
It keeps me wipple-wapple
When the wunk is wappy-wippy
I don't like your gornpop
You're such a norky noobler
The mips are full of zanzi-plips
Don't jim-jomp on the goobler
When I was young, we porpled
We confoobled for a song
But now the nukstips borbalize
And snirkbob all day long
Don't call me a fubble flooper
Just cuz I'm purpipsy
The dinder dob is nabby dab
Someday you'll bloop the blipsy
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Children's Literature, Delwar Hossain, Humor, humorous poetry, Poetry for Kids
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February 4, 2024
everything is charged
with energy and light
glory grace and grandeur
beyond the realm of sight
hunger and salvation
misery and desire
more than we can handle
too close to the fire
there's a universe of goodness
in the smallest things
kindness is eternal
every moment sings
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Freedom to Stroll, Judith Anne, Poetry
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January 27, 2024
All the times that I've cried
Keeping everything I knew inside
It's hard
But it's harder to ignore it
–Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
greed and war and vanity
liars on tv
crooks and phonies
creeps and fools
try and influence me
endless brutality
things i cant unsee
i just need some room to breathe
some space
to be me
cant they hear our cries?
do they know how to feel?
stop the taking
stop the killing
and let the people heal
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:Cat Stevens, Father and son, homayra elsayed, Poetry, sad songs, Tree of Sadness and Pain
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January 12, 2024
Laughter like a desert spring
Perfection like a flower
Smile like a meteor
Shelter like a tree
Spirit like a forest
Brilliance like a star
Endurance like a mountain
Mystery like the sea
Refreshment like a rainstorm
Compassion like the sun
Beauty like a gemstone
Out of reach for me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:love songs, Poetry
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December 17, 2023
When truth melts your delusions
Like a pair of wax wings
Tumbling through your head
Go a thousand random things
Daily fabrications
Avoiding with a sigh
Things that you might notice
When you walk instead of fly
Peering down from clouds
Such a curious location
What one mistakes for clarity
Could be dissociation
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:denial, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Poetry, Yair Haklai
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