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A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: abouts, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme



O Glorious Autumn
O glorious Autumn of melancholic 
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest...

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Categories: abouts, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Churchyard At Midnight
Twas darkness upon the quietly residing heath...
And deathly was the sullen red sandstone tower...
Standing gloomily inside the masons dry-stone walls
Amidst toppling granite slabs and the...

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Categories: abouts, environment,
Form: Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto I
When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be...

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Categories: abouts, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Burning
The Burning


It was seven days and seven nights
Or there abouts, I was not so sure
Life was shrouded in the darkness not at all pure
I lost...

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Categories: abouts, angel, angst, goodbye, suicide,
Form: Verse



Cygnus Olor
Chaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti 
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds...

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Categories: abouts, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Auburn
It is thy wanton gestures that contrive inside long auburn
curls -
Wherefore to diminish the pleas of a warm, lustful
breeze!
For though gilded rays shall grace all...

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Categories: abouts, love, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cost of War Through Peace
"The Cost of War through Peace"

She had spent 
some elaborate 
time 
with snakes,

learning
their ways,
yet in the very 
back of her mind,

in her memories,
she remembered
the stories...

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Categories: abouts, light, love, mother daughter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why?
A man disappears where abouts unknown
Not at his work not at his home
Days pass as a passer by finds
His right leg in a country wind
...

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Categories: abouts, death, husband, loss, sad
Form: Rhyme
Far Away Dad
A close connection to each other
Valued time is spent each day,
A young boy and his father
Its ment to be this way.

What will happen to this
When...

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Categories: abouts, sonson, son,
Form: Rhyme
The Ugh-Gy Little Duckling In Dixie
Tha lil ugh-gy duckin...

...Waa-uh-uh...a BAT lookin baby!
An somMO (I don mean jus maybe!)
Growt up in a house-boat shack
Way downt-ere in ole MAN-chac
Ain lyin!! (An I...

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Categories: abouts, funny, granddaughter, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto Iii
Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely 
Course thy hot crimson blood; 
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of...

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Categories: abouts, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Remaking
I stand where the sunset hugely spills    
Out upon subdued but still hotly
Glowering plains...        ...

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Categories: abouts, celebration, fate, hope,
Form: Rhyme
William the Great
See as a child having a child he was my saving grace, allowing me to refocus my path to a better place, Where he could...

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Categories: abouts, absence, courage, mother, son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hanged Man's Ghost
Listen my children and ye shall hear,
A tale to make ye quake with fear.

'Tis a scarey tale I tell ye no lie,
Of a man who...

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Categories: abouts, fantasy, imagination, seasons,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs