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Dekove Poetry

May 13, 2021
2 min

Mama

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Dekove Poetry

May 6, 2021
1 min

I want love

Love. I've always wanted love. But a special kind of love. Not that lovey dovey, kiss kiss, let me talk to you every second of the day -...

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Dekove Poetry

Apr 29, 2021
2 min

On Beauty

And a poet said, Speak to us of Beauty. And he answered: Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be...

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Dekove Poetry

Apr 22, 2021
1 min

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight...

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Dekove Poetry

Apr 15, 2021
1 min

When you come

When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of...

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Dekove Poetry

Apr 8, 2021
1 min

A Poisoned Tree

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it...

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Dekove Poetry

Mar 25, 2021
1 min

Persian Love Poem: 1

At last I was recaptured by his love Resisting had no effect Love is like an ocean without a shore How can one swim there, oh wise one?...

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Dekove Poetry

Mar 18, 2021
2 min

Adrenaline Rush

Volcano surfing is a sport in which a person rides down an active volcano at speeds up to 50 miles per hour using nothing but a wooden...

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Dekove Poetry

Mar 11, 2021
1 min

The giver (for Berdis)

If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to see in the faces...

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Dekove Poetry

Mar 4, 2021
1 min

The Riddle

We do not recognize the body Of Emmett Till. We do not know The boy’s name nor the sound Of his mother wailing. We have Never heard a...

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Dekove Poetry

Feb 25, 2021
1 min

One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain...

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Dekove Poetry

Feb 18, 2021
1 min

Crossroads

My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,...

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Dekove Poetry

Feb 11, 2021
1 min

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does...

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Dekove Poetry

Feb 4, 2021
1 min

Trojan

When a hurricane sends Winds far enough north To put our power out, We only think of winning The war bodies wage To prove the border...

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Dekove Poetry

Jan 28, 2021
1 min

This Morning I Pray For My Enemies

And whom do I call my enemy? An enemy must be worthy of engagement. I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking. It’s the heart...

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Dekove Poetry

Jan 21, 2021
1 min

Another Vagabond Lost To Love

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to...

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Dekove Poetry

Jan 14, 2021
1 min

"Thank-You Note"

I owe so much to those I don't love. The relief as I agree that someone else needs them more. The happiness that I'm not the wolf to...

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Dekove Poetry

Jan 7, 2021
1 min

Duplex

A poem is a gesture toward home. It makes dark demands I call my own. Memory makes demands darker than my own: My last love drove a...

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Dekove Poetry

Dec 31, 2020
1 min

Love After Love

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the...

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Dekove Poetry

Dec 24, 2020
1 min

Love Letter (Clouds)

I didn’t fall in love. I fell through it: Came out the other side moments later, hands full of matter, waking up from the dream of a...

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