Clam ah go-go
...Manila and Cockles
oh the steamers oh the steamers
Ensis and Razors
Carpet shell clams and Ynghylch
L...
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Categories:
aquifers, music,
Form: Ballade
Empirical Deceitfulness
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Written: December 29, 2023
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Mahogany motionless shadows
cast by deceitful sun,
a caterwaul unravels,
coeval betrayal
voice beckon...
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Categories:
aquifers, analogy, bereavement, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
Water Element
...Written on 9 September 2023 For :
Personification of the Elements Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Miranda Hawley
Water Element
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Categories:
aquifers, creation, humanity, inspirational, life,
Form: Personification
Burgcity
...around were they planned to build a new city they
designed a perfect place to fool novice people and to
enlighten the brokenhearted. One designer said when
people look to man to create he should s...
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Categories:
aquifers, business, creation, leadership, science,
Form: Ballad
Kyrielle
...Kyrielle
Dry caverns yearn for fountainheads
Splashing whirlpools filling streambeds;
Dusty grottos of emptiness
Beg for wellspring’s joyful excess.
Parched hollows anticipation
Waits for w...
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Categories:
aquifers, birth, life, water,
Form: Quatrain
Poetry: a Panacea For Poets
...The cud I rechewed // in the riverside // was from a sett of dreadful hemlock // that struck the aquifers of my soul.
Blight glue my night // as mournful as the grave-in my streets // silence defe...
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Categories:
aquifers, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Aquifers and the Great Lakes
...Aquifers and the Great Lakes
As aquifers in
the vast USA become
depleted and can’t,
by natures rains, be
replenished as quickly as
US needs require,
will their desires grow
stronger fo...
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Categories:
aquifers, water,
Form: Free verse
Three Colored Pigs
...Once upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.
People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change
by her delig...
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Categories:
aquifers, dream, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Straining Toward Sanity
...I see, and fear, a trumpian landscape,
usually, and more casually, outside any safe inside sanctuary.
Infrequent glances inside windstorms
and rivers of underground currents
surreptitiously cul...
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Categories:
aquifers, anxiety, depression, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
The River Styx
...Below indigenous herds of species’
Soft stampeded tramplings,
Profound caves water rivers underground.
Roots grow their nether forests
Down to a shadow fathom depth of earth.
Tendrils leaf out...
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Categories:
aquifers, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Earthfirst
...America First
speaks a RightWing monocultural intention
currently championed by Trumpians
and Republican Aristocracy of Evangelism
Tea Partiers,
by xenophobic paranoids
and sociopathic pharise...
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Categories:
aquifers, anger, community, fear, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Sometimes
...Sometimes,
I dare to look
into your forsaken-
forsakenly beautiful eyes.
Aquifers bursting sunlight burrowing
daisies swirling in a dream
under the sun
I look away
sometimes...
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Categories:
aquifers, beauty, dream, heart, love,
Form: Rictameter
The Source: Waters
...Wash away corruption, precipitation cleanses our deeds,
Artesian aquifers washing, and nurturing planted seeds,
Torrential downfalls, baptize impermeable desert sands,
Eternal crystallization, fra...
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Categories:
aquifers, baptism, birth, creation, death,
Form: Acrostic
The Lorax Sequel
...I took the only seed of hope
for any future healthy Truffula Trees,
but reminded my clinically depressed acquaintance
we are all born co-redeemers,
not addictively incubating extractors.
Ours ...
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Categories:
aquifers, earth, environment, integrity, love,
Form: Narrative
Safe In Las Vegas
...With an oxymoron for a title
It would seem my poem should be over
And in fact I guess it nearly is.
City built at Hell’s very door
Sell your future for a thrill ride
‘At least I know where I’m g...
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Categories:
aquifers, life,
Form: Free verse
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