The Hero
...Bordering the local
football ground, young
mountain ash bend
in the cold wind.
Almost reaching to full height,
their lean, pliable trunks bow
and spring back,
whipping against the air.
Def...
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Categories:
bannered, football, memory,
Form: Free verse
King of Kings: 1-90
...1 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees ...
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Categories:
bannered, metaphor, , western,
Form: Epic
The Land of the Lost
...Come we will an the road is open,
Come we will an the door swings ajar,
The land we glimpsed longing from fens afar,
Shall now be ours to make or mar!
Unto the gate we shall be holpen,
There w...
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Categories:
bannered, anger, fantasy, home, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
When I Woke Up This Morning
...I opened to my internet this morning
to see an icon of a woman
under bannered "News"
And thought it couldn't be important
or it would be a picture
of a white patriarch.
I opened to my weath...
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Categories:
bannered, caregiving, health, humor, morning,
Form: Political Verse
Sunshine For the Soul
...sun kisses the dew
with feathered hues of sequins
the whole world glitters
with extravagance of light
in the red bannered sunrise
no trumpets are heard
for the wide lift of pink sky
as the crimson s...
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Categories:
bannered, happiness, nature,
Form: Tanka
Dark Tidings
...When wind whips high in the night
Shrilling it's loneliness
Or the cold grey curl of the fog
Follows me through the streets
Terror is my name, as the asphalt trembles
And I land on your doorstop...
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Categories:
bannered, mysteryme,
Form: Free verse
The Bats.
...Dark dark the jocund space with downy flesh
Black bannered hideous gloomier than rest
Under the low hanging tattered rugged sky
Float clouds dark tortured low lit as night.
A shoal of bats deep...
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Categories:
bannered, angstdark, dark,
Form: Lyric
My Little Bulldog
...No challenge stops her
stance is set
shoulders squared
She needs no reassurance
no protective arm
What she want...
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Categories:
bannered, daughter, father, hope, love,
Form: Senryu