Bylines
...Beautiful, breathless, bloods
Brave, bold beings…
Bringing bounteous buds
Blossoms, blooming birthrights
Beneath blazing baby bluebloods…
Bliss, bolstering, breathtaking
Bushes, burying brok...
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Categories:
becalms, beautiful, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Peace Flutters
...she becalms senses
heart leaps sensing smell of love
peace flutters sky high
Dec. 1, 2021
Hi-ku (5) Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Brian Strand...
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Categories:
becalms, flying, freedom, peace,
Form: Haiku
Within the Scrolls
...you usher me
with the allure of your muse
on drafts of featherless wings
through the breadth of night's air
away in the distance of dreams
i am swept
into the depths of imagery
that bestir m...
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Categories:
becalms, desire, dream, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Bring Back the Horse and Buggy
...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, per...
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Categories:
becalms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Heaven and Hell
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
withheld the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she c...
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Categories:
becalms, write,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she circled...
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Categories:
becalms, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell Re-Post
......inspired by Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periph...
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Categories:
becalms, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she circled...
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Categories:
becalms, writing,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell
......patterned after 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed th...
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Categories:
becalms, adventure, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she c...
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Categories:
becalms, mythology,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heaven and Hell
......inspired by 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of ...
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Categories:
becalms, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heaven and Hell
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she circled mound ...
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Categories:
becalms, on writing and words,
Form: Verse
Vision of a Mad King
...I am Saul, beset, besieged, afraid to face the war
Without the latent singing of my natal star
Exposed. Fiends and witches medium know alone
To bring up a spirit or read the scattered bone
But th...
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Categories:
becalms, death, inspirational, mystery, satireme,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heaven and Hell (Repost)
...Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.
So great the span of her intent
she ci...
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Categories:
becalms, on writing and words
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell (Repost)
......an emulation of
Coleridge's 'Kuble Khan'
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
withheld the gr...
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Categories:
becalms, on writing and words
Form: Verse
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