Light
...Glistening night began the fall,
Of dreams and joy, he would often call,
Hopes residing on his shoulders appal,
Dark inhaling the being, exhaling it all.
Where would it end?
Masking it, anon...
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Categories:
appal, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Metric Apologetic
...Perhaps I ought to publish my position
(as if there's anyone disposed to care!):
I'm not convinced that open competition
is profitable. Poets, self-aware,
and full of self-esteem (as many are!...
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Categories:
appal, poetry,
Form: Terza Rima
Ketchup On the Wall
...There was a mighty head of state
who thought he was like God.
Within the prercincts of his house
all feared his heavy plod.
We now hear many stories,
some of which appal,
of crashing crockery...
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Categories:
appal, bullying, corruption, violence,
Form: Burlesque
Dark Night of the Soul
...For some a black hole
Dark night of the soul
An illusionary sense of contraction
Borne of narrow identity suggestion
The truth quite simple
Elusive to mind nimble
Ascension is nothing but res...
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Categories:
appal, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
We Sense the Sacred In These Peaceful Walls
...We sense the sacred in these peaceful walls
Yet men have died in places that appal
Women too and children then unborn
Fell into cold dark earth in lands forlorn
As our weapons grow, our heart...
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Categories:
appal, allegory, hate, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Amsterdam
...If you seek to fully understand,
This complex human jam,
You just need a ticket in hand,
To fly to Amsterdam!
History walks the streets here,
In every pavement stone,
You find friendship and ...
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Categories:
appal, appreciation, beautiful, drug, happy,
Form: Rhyme
To My Love Part 2 Tbc
...How offensive that must’ve felt!
I’m seated after having said this in bewailment like an ox
Not thinking of the grandeur but of her buttocks
Gloriously, as an ambler, I lift the embargo on this th...
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Categories:
appal, life,
Form: Free verse
Restore Life 2
...Species did die ere man,
In the round of selection,
So many and so long.
What difference now
Should they go?
In trackless time
Lent to adaptation,
A peice succeeds
To its proper slot,
Only...
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Categories:
appal, inspirational, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Soulmate
...The symphony and guitar too..had made
It pleasent and soothing story which was once said..
Do it even if, world hate...
This was the cause of being her soulmate
The life long exams meant nothin...
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Categories:
appal, angel, art, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Europe Grasp and Greed
...We sense the sacred in these peaceful walls
Yet men have died in places that appal
Women too and children then unborn
Fell into cold dark earth in lands forlorn
As our weapons grow, our heart...
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Categories:
appal, allusion, analogy, angst, care,
Form: Rhyme
Antisocial Behaviour
...Young Peter is far from perfect
Teen anger he fails to deflect
His trail of destruction
Has caused such a ruction
You should see the items he’s wrecked
His parents do little to sto...
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Categories:
appal, conflict, confusion, growing up,
Form: Limerick
Blowing In the Wind
...Some say Great Britain is the dirtiest nation in the world,
As a sign of respect for the Jubilee and our glorious Queen,
We are initiating a drive for the nation to make out streets clean.
That is...
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Categories:
appal, poetry,
Form: ABC
Impurrturbably Above It All
...Impurrturbably Above it All
Hail, Ginger Majesty on high,
where on your royal ledge you lie.
Occasionally a glance you throw
On us unfortunates below,
A restless crew who daily pace
Compulsiv...
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Categories:
appal, animal, cat, satire,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet
...The rocks. The sea. The mountains
The sky stretching close and beyond
The cliffs, the valley, the fountains
The places of memories fond
The eyes. The ears. The voices
The innermost sanctif...
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Categories:
appal, poets, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Theatre
...THEATRE
is this some sort of operation
an apparition
taking place above my head where
bluemouthed
masks stare shadowed by
overhead lights
is that the man in white or not
yet...
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Categories:
appal, allusion, heart, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
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