Best Battened Poems

I'm a man apart, repelled by the norm
Got my own path I chose to walk in
My eyes see things on a different wavelength,
my ears are attuned to another frequency

Never thought twice about the separation,
or the price of breaking free from the swarm
Always was comfortable in...

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Spoke to a cloud today – 
the usual conversation
about shape and size, 

lows and highs...whether
my need to tote a handy, spring
loaded umbrella...or a better chance
to go without pants, dance
on the beach ~ showing off
thighs, widening sockets
of older generational eyes – he 
told me of clouds...

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Weather is poised to slap us into submission.
Threatening with the largest storm in history
To make us aware of her power to destroy
And yet, here on the cusp of history, 
battened down
well stocked
Do I yet love Nature
With all of her wild and beautiful ways.
Her seas have...

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Out upon the Spanish Main it roared
The storm reached out its cold hands to catch
Crashing waves they beat against the board
Quickly now they battened every hatch

Spray and wind groaned, lashing at the sails
The creaking and bending of the mast
Will God hear our muffled shouts and...

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Oh restful place
Weary are my eyes that watch in glory
Worn are the clay hands of my race
With lines and tales that rise upon my face

Oh restful place
With battened flattened ruby shoes
And America spirited sapphire pants
The whistling winds call the to trace  

Oh restful place
I...

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The storm was approaching, we thought... should we scramble?
To stay may be risky, should we take the gamble?
We had our provisions, and we thought "We're prepared".
We bought batteries, and candles, and in no way impaired.
The windows we shuttered, and we battened the hatches,
Stocked up on...

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Das Decrements Describe Digs ©

Grasping figurative literary straws
     poetic theme yielded
     farfetched aggregate
i.e., where each dwelling
     listed as figurative Stormy bedmate,
this nada so eminent (Eminem fan)
     lived since the...

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All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over.

There was a calmness but once before it, where I felt your warmth bring...

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As we sit here in the middle of the storm
So many are starting to think that this is the norm
That the worst has past, at least to some
But that feeling won’t last for the worst is yet to come

And though the sun may still shine
And...

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It was a night so dark, so damp; the fog swirled thick about the lamp,
a night not fit for man or beast, a night on which tender hearts ceased
to care about mankind's suffering, so nasty was the storm buffeting
the tiny humble New England town, its...

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I got it as a gift from my grand uncle Dan who lived to a ripe old age of a hundred and one. He was the type of man that believes in developing the land; he had property that occupies a large portion of the...

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I was blinded to the autonomy
   Of the actions committed in the time
Moonfall hesitated, and did not see
   Malice in the eyes that were naught to be mine.
The crescent curves of a smile's sliver;
   Indecision of skin, rancid and...

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Houses were battened
winds-rattled thunder
some homes were flattened
lives pushed asunder.

Pigs really did fly
through debris-filled air
as a tornado went by
left behind it despair.

Services held for those that were lost
try to pick-up the pieces
ascertain the cost.

With only one wall left
what happens to the leases ?
oh, by the way
have...

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It rained that day - 

incessant, driving rain 
that mirrored my watery brokenness. 
Teeming tears, teeming rain, teeming torrents 
of gnawing, agonizing pain. 

It rained that day - 

overpowering the inefficient 
stressed out drain. A gurgling back-flow 
of uncomfortable memories re-surging 
in my mind again.....and...

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I have battened down the 
saturated hatches
which were dampened
while waiting for
your impending storm.

Intending no harm,
you passed by quietly
and I needn't have
worried none...

yet damage was 
somehow still done
by the force of a gale
that was experienced
by only one....

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