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Premium Member my eyes turn back
... I … have courted luck in countless ways against ragged judgments and self-umbrage I still draw breaths, counted and the mirror has been charitable most I meet deem me forty (I’m not about t......

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Categories: abaft, analogy, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze
...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village, an ear clapping, full sailed, fog moors itself to the rooftops, then hides all in a breezeless blear. Rheumy eyes peep out from nets, damp noses s......

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Categories: abaft, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Ubiquitous Mallards
... Bottoms up in the brook a-babbling topside down ducks a-dabbling wings in webbed feet a-scrabbling omnivorously grazing on the dunk beneath the water for insects sunk yet in the U......

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Categories: abaft, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clouds Over Your Head
...clouds as fluffy as the whistling bliss encircling in the sky, eyes fonder and kiss abaft the hidden pillows of lace brightness over hays above Thy grace......

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Categories: abaft, creation,
Form: Couplet
A Dillydally Way
...Trailing naked toes, hat low peaked fingers laced abaft head and sun, white-water gently threading through the webbed keel of one foot. The sky is blasting blue, splotching louder blobs of cob......

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Categories: abaft, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Groom In Bloom
...Down the dreamed aisle comes the bliss of your sight Cord of your life sinew of your might. Abaft the unending trek comes the longed outset A more colorful kismet under the glorified s......

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Categories: abaft, for her, for him,
Form: Sehra
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle
Lying Haiku
...We fly forever up high In our own blue sky Thru clouds, past rain, moon abaft......

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Categories: abaft, allegory, flying, inspiration, sky,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Odyssey of Night
...We've sought our sextant, fair and free, Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea - Should other sentience thrive, perchance, And wend the depths of great expa......

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Categories: abaft, analogy, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Kyrielle
Marked Wrists
...Behind those hidden marked wrists Are lies, skepticism and fears Behind those calloused, clenched fists Is a cauldron of uncontrollable tears. Behind those evident scars Is a constant cycle of......

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Categories: abaft, abuse, death, depression, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Eyes Turn Back
...I've courted luck, in countless ways Against the ragged judgments and self-umbrage I still draw breath, and the mirror has been charitable Most I meet deem me forty, (I don't......

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Categories: abaft, age, growth, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member to sail the sky -
... * For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness * ~ cast tie-lines to shadowy depths above meteors to plunge the ocean of suns ......

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
The Wind Beneath My Wings
...The wind beneath my wings was a fart And excuse me is all I could say; Flying here where worlds apart As the good folk looked on in dismay. For they had expected much more, Loftier goals had b......

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Categories: abaft, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale
...All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over. There was a calmness but once before......

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Categories: abaft, home, sea, storm, sun,
Form: Prose
Lost At Sea
...The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked It would be fair time afore it sought the lee With the slams and the pitching the ship could be wrac......

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Categories: abaft, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse

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