Hebrew War
...Hebrews war
We see them breaking every law of criminal conduct like it should be an everyday occurrence
We are told by the eminent Jordan Peterson, that the people, from the back and beyond Turke...
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Categories:
backwood, angst, birth, break up,
Form: Blank verse
A Waste of Time
...Sometimes I think my life a waste of time
That I have accomplished nothing of note,
When I observe those with lives sublime
I fear I am stuck in a backwood remote.
My mind becomes o...
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Categories:
backwood, life, sometimes, time,
Form: Quatrain
The Squirrel
...The Squirrel
Agile, gray-brown fluff
burying acorns in the yarded scruff,
future mighty oak spawned nests of hope
stretched out branch trapezed along a tightrope,
chatter banter circular froli...
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Categories:
backwood, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Howling At the Moon
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Black market product truckload ...
illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise,
and plenty boxed liquor of trouble
Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde
riding shotgun,
with a Rambo kn...
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Categories:
backwood, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form: Ode
Blazing Beast
...The ground gaped garishly, gored with ghastly gouges of glowing, gravelly gobs ...
Finally unfettered from a frigid firmament, flames flung fiery, flaring fingers
ferociously forwa...
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Categories:
backwood, fire, hero, nature,
Form: Alliteration
A Special Place
...shifting and swirling wind
biting cold
first light coming around the bend
illuminating each crevice and every fold
the kind of silence that makes a sound
lone bird on a branch
snow drifts ...
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Categories:
backwood, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Carapace
...what a strange thing to compare yourself to,
something that slips from water to land
tastes the sun, slipping into the muddy dark again
what a strange comparison
woman and reptile
warm and
c...
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Categories:
backwood, confusion, dark, dedication, friendship,
Form: Free verse
A New Road Home
...I've passed it by, so many times before
While traveling this twisted asphalt highway
That weathered sign, nailed, so crudely fashioned
To peeling bark, upon the yoke
Of one ancient, gnarled and ...
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Categories:
backwood, introspection, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Road Unknown
...We've passed it by........so many times
Along this twisted........ asphalt highway
A sign that's nailed,....... so crudely fashioned
To peeling bark.......upon the yoke of gnarled, old cot...
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Categories:
backwood, introspectionold, old,
Form: Shape
Mile After Mile
...it is a long stretch of backwood country to walk
(Mile
After
Mile)
The scenery changes with every step
from Blue and green to Winter White
(Mile
after
Mile)
My home is so faraway from me no...
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Categories:
backwood, introspection, loss, nature,
Form: I do not know?