Heart
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"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh ...
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Categories:
baulks, muse,
Form: Free verse
If You Were Fool Enough To
...IF YOU WERE FOOL ENOUGH TO….
If you were fool enough to ask me things that better be
What I’d rather do twiddle-doo twiddle-dee if I were free
Yes, if you lived in a caved-in sagging igloo ...
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Categories:
baulks, anger, break up, conflict,
Form: Couplet
A Prisoner Is Shown the Torture Implements
...The bricks were sweating, nervous. Icy slime
had soaked his coat-sleeve, much to his disgust.
Tall baulks of formless timber seemed to climb
towards the bulbous shadows. Guido, trussed
an...
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Categories:
baulks, history,
Form: Ottava rima
Villanelle: Teach Not a Dog How Not To Bark
...Villanelle : Teach not a dog how not to bark
(This dog the mawkish villanelle baulks)
Teach not a dog how not to bark
Dogs bark for a lark in the dark
When Masters mawkish dreams embar...
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Categories:
baulks, freedom, poems, poetry,
Form: Villanelle