How to make love to a didgeridoo VI
...Antiquated pipeline geysers ravage starry nebulae, blast ash. The hurricane bankrupts reed origami masts. It splits overripe pomegranates. Wild animal guitar buzzes, echoing through shattered valleys...
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Categories:
aqueduct, humanity, ireland, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Old Aqueduct
...It juts out by the river road,
traffic passes it each morn,
what’s left of the old aqueduct,
something stately, yet still forlorn.
The rock, with no mortar, was set
so fine it would make Incas p...
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Categories:
aqueduct, appreciation, history, imagery, in
Form: Rhyme
Steam Train Ride
...The whistle blows, the chugging starts -
A steam train ride in France -
For those who like to try things
From the past, this is your chance.
Since when it’s time to turn around,
The leading c...
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Categories:
aqueduct, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Two Short Poems About Death
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Estuary
the strong tide greets the sheltered stream
where life's hereafter dares to dream
a place where screeching, circling birds
fall silent to breath’s final word...
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Categories:
aqueduct, beach, bird, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Valley
...Sweet organic scents waft softly
through the vast and endless valley
where myriads of trees grow in tight rows
marked by long lines of rich, robust soils
that brighten with the rising sun.
I...
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Categories:
aqueduct, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Passing Ships
...Passing Ships
In a bygone era;
The canvas masts hailed
As ships sailed,
Around the world.
(Like a bridge spanning
Mainland to island;
Or a Roman aqueduct
Transporting water.)
Pa...
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Categories:
aqueduct, history, ocean, voyage,
Form: Verse
Spanish Conquest
...Segovia, Segovia, proud city on a hill,
So steeped in ancient history, your beauty charms me still.
The Roman aqueduct remains a marvel to admire
And cobbled streets wind upwards to the golden Got...
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Categories:
aqueduct, places, spanish,
Form: Light Verse
Portugal Fantasy Saudade
...All those talks we had, your breath smoky.
All those plans we had to someday meet.
And then I felt the fear turning my legs icy
while we climbed toward the sky’s craggy peaks.
Were you safe d...
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Categories:
aqueduct, adventure, fantasy, feelings, journey,
Form: Free verse
Divine Disaster
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Obscure the scars
Reach for the stars
Memorize the epitaph
Autograph the photograph
Photosynthesize and downsize
Realize even the leaves tell lies
Obstruct the construct
Deconstruc...
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Categories:
aqueduct, allusion, life, meaningful, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Harmonious Welcome
...aqueduct bridge and path spies
an old stone church in the clouds
with her forested steeple
— gilt-raptured windows
10/5/2018...
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Categories:
aqueduct, encouraging, mountains, peace,
Form: Dodoitsu
Weird Windows
...I don't know what exactly attracted me to it
I don't know why or how it resonated within me
Something old and characterful, perhaps it saw an equal in me?
The lane is old and windy, the tracti...
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Categories:
aqueduct, beautiful, character, history, home,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Rome's Versatile Aqueduct System
...With the romans usually
travel galloping to their destination,
they one day thought of
a better way to travel invention,
instead of the old way
which was usually by horse,
they decided it would...
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Categories:
aqueduct, fun, humor, travel,
Form: Light Verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
...Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently reclin...
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Categories:
aqueduct, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Cut
...A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin to human organ...
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Categories:
aqueduct, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Grace
...It is not because of anything in them
But because of boundless grace
You have to fix your hope up above;
Faith occupies the position of a challenge
Grace is the fountain & the stream
Faith is th...
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Categories:
aqueduct, adventure, art, black african
Form: Free verse
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