Old Paint in Old Tin Can
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I pried with a screw-driver driven into a lid
sealed with age, and rust, to crack open a
callous retribution, set aside, tombed over.
I was curious to learn how much remained
and in w...
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Categories:
auger, forgiveness, remember,
Form: Other
Sand and Sea
...And lo of that wave riven coast
That bounding sea who cries here most
On wind tossed shores where teardrops sown
Yearn to make their passions known
Forever clasped with lover with foe
Whereon? O...
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Categories:
auger, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Rhyme
Regret
...Regrets' embrace stirs past the hour
Ere long after best forgot
Anguished lamentations auger
Stains the shade of envies plot
Follower of deeds most dour
Bears the pall in every wake
Bids inter ...
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Categories:
auger, angst, dark, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Body of a Fallen Tree
...within a pock, a lonely copse
a one-time proudly standing duke
lay collapsed a pearly corpse
strewn, now stretched across a dyke
no mortar, stone or brick to budge
a single chain links an area ...
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Categories:
auger, analogy, body, nature, tree,
Form: Sonnet
Trapped Inside a Poet
...Off-beat pulse, echoed heart to part,
Separate slime of sweating art.
Body but a corpus, corporal careless muck,
Limbed flubber army legs lashing ‘gainst the yuck.
Mind but memory in meld wit...
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Categories:
auger, absence, anxiety, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Ecolayer
...They proposed stabilization
Friction from the augers
Rotation
Caused one to ponder
Would such affect
Those ah yonder
Then in perfect diction
He said it as a predict
If thee surface of this
S...
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Categories:
auger, art, business, tree, water,
Form: Concrete
Garden Apartment Redemption
...I solemnly received my first toilet auger
As if it were a knight’s well-tempered sword.
It meant I’d passed my ninety-day audition,
And seemed to me a suitable reward.
And so began my tenure wo...
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Categories:
auger, allegory, work,
Form: Burlesque
A Winter's Day
...The summer has long since faded
The sky seems eternally grey,
A white carpet laid down on the landscape clearing the green grass away.
The house is chilly this morning,
Out to the woodbox I go
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Categories:
auger, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
Septuagenarian Serenade
...Septuagenarian Serenade
By Sy Roth
It wants to warble a fine tune
It wants to fill the night with a pleasing glissando
Rising and sliding into joyful jig
Instead, the brittle vocal chords ...
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Categories:
auger, age, angst,
Form: Free verse
Augur Auger
...Augur Auger
David J Walker
It was all in the spelling
Actually
An e here or a u there
And the foreshadowing’s
Changed in strange
Rearrangements
After all, as a young augur
What was ...
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Categories:
auger, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
A Morning Walk
...I walked the warm sands
earlier that day,
watching the tides
ebbing, flowing,
gracefully like,
flowers swaying in a breeze.
sunlight’s aubade fingers
caressed my face,
lending ...
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Categories:
auger, beach, nature, ocean, places,
Form: Prose
To My Love Part 4 Tbc
...My post-mortem may bear the stroke of your hand, in your lap,
On your knees with a single tear so priceless
That may fall on my cold cheek with power to revive, resurrect.
But not this time, not t...
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Categories:
auger, life,
Form: Free verse
Word Morph - From the Ground
...Angel ascended from the ground,
To anger the humans of the world,
Flying around leaving aggers of dreadful sounds,
Using his auger to dig out dreamworlds,
Ancient augurs of Rome predicted his arr...
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Categories:
auger, angel, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The 'Now' Matters
...The 'now' matters...!
May you see and realise life, 'oh' dear,
without a cloak on any form of fear!
Out in the open - nay light and nay dark,
existence alone that is clear and stark.
Influe...
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Categories:
auger, allusion, mystery, peace, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Where the World's Going To Stand On
...Sure few ones know where the world's going to stand on
history speaks restless in time civilization after civilization
many theories are taught till today th...
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Categories:
auger, world,
Form: Verse
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