The Toll of a Single Bell Chime
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A bell tolls — with a single chime.
Igniting the spell of dawn’s regret.
It halts the breath, suspends all time,
Foreboding with threats you can't forget.
You flinch—one foot on the stepping ...
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Categories:
avow, angst, anxiety, music,
Form: Rhyme
How Now Slough
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Although
it’s a hard row to hoe
a rough furrow to harrow
and a tough trench to plough
there’s many a meadow to mow
I hereby avow
and tho' it may be news to you
farmers have the need
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Categories:
avow, animal, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Trashcans
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Mentally we rummage through
Our trashcans of the past
Viewing what was worthless
When in that trash were cast:
A milestone magazine we see in there
Worth thousands in “green backs” now
Oh m...
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Categories:
avow, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Grace Knurls Decrepit Gnarls
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Grace can't grind away the wrinkled gnarls time obeyed,
Nor hide the snarls, ploughed as furrows in the brow.
It carves the knurls for grip that age has disobeyed,
To a shape what decrepit, flai...
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Categories:
avow, age,
Form: Sonnet
Big Blue Cow
...I saw her in a meadow high
Where red flowers touch the sky
Her eyes were mournful, so much inside
I looked within, skepticism died
(chorus)
I'm in love with a big blue cow
And a big blue cow ...
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Categories:
avow, feelings, funny love, humor,
Form: Lyric
Constructor of My Own Chaos
...My fire snorted and all is still,
Chaos does come; lull in the hills.
My mother weeps & daddy cries,
Not peace nor love seen in the skies.
Looking on stirred, with jaws agape,
As blood do...
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Categories:
avow, anger, bible, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven Hate
...(Heavy, dramatic organ intro with a choir hum)
(Verse 1)
Heaven hates, oh Heaven hates,
The darkness creeping through the gates,
Heaven hates, oh Heaven hates,
The wicked whispers and their ...
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Categories:
avow, angel, appreciation, black love,
Form: Imagism
The Wedding at Cana
...A wedding in Cana and Jesus was there.
A miscalculation, a bit of a scare.
They ran out of wine before it was through.
What were they to do? What were they to do?
“Do whatever He tells you.”
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Categories:
avow, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Critterature: Common Denominators
...A walrus, a whale, and a wildebeest
Have a few things in common to comment on:
They've never read Byron, or Shelley, or Keats,
They don't like asparagus, broccoli, or beets,
Or waiting in line to...
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Categories:
avow, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Lilith
...Lilith
Veiled in the moon’s ethereal grace,
She emerges from her shadowed place.
A crown of black roses adorns her brow,
Each thorn a reminder of the pain she must avow.
In the moonli...
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Categories:
avow, dark, desire, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Moscow I
...It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
t...
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Categories:
avow, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Delphic
...Quote: The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The forest is my sanctuary, a sphere of...
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Categories:
avow, deep, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Racecar or Kayak - or Both
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He wanted to drive a racecar-
a deed that would make him a star.
His friends would say wow-
and Mom, praise avow
for scoring top level- bizarre!
No...
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Categories:
avow, cool, funny, kid, sports,
Form: Limerick
Empress of the Night
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Empress of the Night
Veiled in the moon’s ethereal grace,
She emerges from her shadowed place.
A crown of black roses adorns her brow,
Each thorn a reminder of the pain she must avow...
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Categories:
avow, dark, desire, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
That was Then, and This is Now
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That was Then, and This is Now
In the crypt of our loves memory, we danced so free,
Our romance, a cursed flame, burned with spectral glow.
But secrets, whispers from the damned, yo...
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Categories:
avow, anger, break up, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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