Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at...
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Categories:
agonised, adventure,
Form: Narrative
The Birds
...Reclined under the shade of a snag tree,
A babbler piqued my curiosity.
Staggered by the companionship, initially.
Then pleased.
I discerned a lamenting warble...
The massif offered commiserat...
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Categories:
agonised, 4th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Romanticism
icy darkness
...in the icy darkness
beyond our garden
foxes are screaming
framed by air frost
stars sparkle above
the clouds of my breath
the moon is weeping
the gaunt branches
of winter trees
framed by th...
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Categories:
agonised, music, night,
Form: Free verse
Two Icy Islands
...Two Icy Islands
Cracks appear in the ice
Become wider but we don’t cross
We each urge the other to jump
To join the other on their slab of ice
I motion to you, you motion to me
Neither jump. ...
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Categories:
agonised, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Still See
...I still see
our memory of the first time we met
your blue eyes full of glit
Like the blue eyes alit.
I still see
our memory of the first night we spent together
led lights blazing,
blazing l...
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Categories:
agonised, africa, appreciation, break up,
Form: Ballad
Tacky Tongue
...Hey, the filthy way of the dejected
Those who walk through you are rejected
You take them to the world of disrespected
You make them meet the unexpected.
Hey, the senseless brutal words
T...
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Categories:
agonised, betrayal, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Her Aching Heart
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It's not the first time
her heart is breaking
She swallows tears as
her heart is aching
Who'll explain the ache
her heart is facing?
Every time she hope...
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Categories:
agonised, heart, pain, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Fixed
...Slow motion agonised gravel crunch
Picks and flicks sharp stones under tyres
Glinted handle clicked forward introduces
Arresting view of her beauty polished
Soft and ready, yet bristled....
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Categories:
agonised, absence, beautiful, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Burnt
...I held out my hands
To touch yours
And you pulled me
Closer and closer to you
Only to shove me
Into Hell's raging fires!
I burned a part of myself
Before realising
That life is not meant fo...
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Categories:
agonised, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss For This World
...all doubts swept away
charged with energy
now
ecstatic
agonised protracted
monumental
belonging
from the past
a disrega...
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Categories:
agonised, music, people,
Form: Verse
Damned Patrons' Victims Proved Helpless Agonised
...damned patrons' victims proved helpless agonised
ministers agonised inside wombs, starlit shields of beheaded
offenders glassfuls of blood, elegant marks indelible, bricks in moonlit lorn
pits, go...
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Categories:
agonised, allegory, allusion, dream, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
All Night
...I was haunted all night by your memory
The moon sang its melody all night
At times glowing, at times dimming
The candle of grief flickered all night
A perfume kept changing its garments
A pict...
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Categories:
agonised, love,
Form: Free verse
Stiletto
...Breathe easy to the heart that pumps out its rhythm!
Ease the easiest way that penetrates its veins!
Breathe easy to the brightest heartbeat that gives birth to life.
Bring back sensation from wit...
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Categories:
agonised, 12th grade, angel, appreciation,
Form: Personification
Message Received
...Her funeral held earlier that day,
in her coffin she held her mobile phone,
she told him that she wanted it that way
and now he crept off up to bed alone.
He tossed and turned, his was a fitful s...
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Categories:
agonised, death,
Form: Couplet
Weeping Ash Ballad
...Weeping Ash
Mourn for me tonight, Weeping Ash;
Break my heart and all my hopes crash.
Let your gnarled knuckles crack and creak;
Let your contorted mouth still shriek
Silently.
Come under my...
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Categories:
agonised, depression,
Form: Ballad
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