Midway III
...Then through the mist, the Sun was set ablaze
and all beneath its realm fell to their knees.
‘Twas but a fire that filled the coming days
as mortal ashes wafted through the breeze.
Her wreckage w...
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Categories:
auguries, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Emperor
...When arrogance pursues a despot spire
through dominance consumed with vain conceit,
‘tis but a trait that sets the world afire
as ignorance lets history repeat.
They see the presage warning of ...
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Categories:
auguries, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet
Soothsayer
...sight...
a prophet's mark unsheathed
radiant, quell the shadow's scream
her lips were never meant for me
in auguries
... blood uncharted
...
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Categories:
auguries, anxiety, depression, future, life,
Form: Free verse
The Unsupervised Stop Sign
...The Unsupervised Stop Sign 10-26-23
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The Unsupervised Stop Sign
STOP!
Red lights flash crimson warnings
As arias of bloodred omens swirl about
...
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Categories:
auguries, angst, pride, sad, self,
Form: Free verse
Letters To Dead Poets; Chapter 1: To William Blake
...In that endless night
we heed; cold and bitterness
unto the morning light
Sightless vision binds our eyes
madness disembarks into our lives
A cold dark prison earned
is the bittersweet sentence...
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Categories:
auguries, spiritual, writing,
Form: Free verse
Auguries From Apophenia
...NOT incarnated in an unlight inside this Great Hookworm's duotoroidal traumedy-
NOR feverously skeined 'tween the Void's warp-weft over timeleft psukhai shivering-
NIL latency in thoughtfoam fr...
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Categories:
auguries, allegory, dark, horror, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Auguries
...AUGURIES
unsophisticated
&
incisive
with
a
smooth
perceptive
flavour
influenced
&
considered
lyrically
deployed
&
explored
to
touch
&
complement
the
visionary
NOTE:THIS IS A...
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Categories:
auguries, poetry,
Form: Other
Rest In Peace
...
I
Was a midwinter morn gravely put
to ground, and parish
leaves wet underfoot
led to the sermon ‘neath the mount
and to its dirges i...
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Categories:
auguries, death, funeral, mother,
Form: Rhyme
The Auguries of Mary Magdalene
...The Auguries of Mary Magdalene
David J Walker
I saw Mary Magdalene
Sitting on the stone bench
Near your grave
Was she here for you
Was she there to proclaim
Your absence
never looking...
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Categories:
auguries, death, religion,
Form: Free verse
Rising Sun and Waning Moon
...'Twas the time of Summer solstice, they wed
Verdant leaves clung to trees; the month was June
Whispered troths of love, sacred vows were said
'fore fauna, rising sun and waning moon
Prince ...
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Categories:
auguries, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
Winter Journey End
...WINTER JOURNEY’S END
Their calculations must have been at fault
Their instruments in need to calibrate
That wandering star’s location in the vault
Had seemed a compass true, inviolate
The au...
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Categories:
auguries, christian,
Form: Sonnet
Auguries
...“Robin Redbreast in a cage,”
So sweet this line from a bygone age!
But now ‘tis not the heavens that rage;
‘tis Raging Ram who now holds stage.
Raging Ram, who’s that? you ask.
The truth to t...
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Categories:
auguries, bird, poets, riddle,
Form: Burlesque
Sunny
...The rainy day turned sunny;
We spent it with some friends.
It's sometimes strange and funny
What the forecaster portends.
For we expected weather
Filled with cloudiness and wet
And though we'...
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Categories:
auguries, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 17
...Part 17
a kitchen drawer filled with throwaway lines
taped across the raw spots
itching festering inquiries eh inspector
asking the unavoidable
if we know how we got here
there's a better cha...
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Categories:
auguries, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Infinity In My Hand
...Are they mere grains of sand spewed by
the waves of the seas or are they
stars of the heavens washed ashore?
(Written in reference to William Blake's "Auguries of Innocenc...
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Categories:
auguries, world,
Form: Verse
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