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Best Clays Poems

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Spring Time
It was the time,
When there was no sign of dawn and dusk
Hot summers and chilled winters gave us new tasks
Heavy storms and rains brought us...

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Categories: clays, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



The Flickering Light
How burns the fire of life
whose fuel and air are resentment and hate?
The flames of those elements burn white-hot
yet they warm not.
Fully stoked their hearths...

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Categories: clays, friendship, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Both Barrels - Shooting Widows
My husband is a shooter,
Which isn't always fun,
As every weekend 
He's out somewhere with his gun.
So quality time together 
Can sometimes be quite sparse,
"But I...

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Categories: clays, dad, daughter, humor, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Autumnal Haze Love, Seasons, Life, Wonder
Rise slowly from eastward, O western setting sun! Blaze
                ...

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Categories: clays, age, change, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Incomplete Portrait
I met a pretty queen 
whose eyes sparkled like  
the diamonds of Sierra Leone 
whose lips as red and hot  
as chili pepper...

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Categories: clays, romantic,
Form: Romanticism



To Homerus, the Grecian Master
(for: Homer, the Greek Master)

Now, do you sit on these Grecian rubbles,
O, desert god of old Greek ruins!
Didst thou across this earth match
O, Homerus! the...

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Categories: clays, nostalgia
Form: I do not know?
House of Symbols
this is the house we were made.
a house papa and mama’s colors joined together.
we have the map of this building in our palms,
we could not...

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Categories: clays, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Ballad
Stones I Have Known
Stones I Have Known

I know that stone - scoured smooth beneath the tread
Of workers' feet too early out of bed.
It sparkled finely to my childish...

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Categories: clays, childhood, england, extended metaphor,
Form: Heroic Couplet
R I P Kurt
Legends live their life, off the track….
God give them things, in a different pack…
Pack of pain…agony n dismay….
Which burns them hard n baptize through the...

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Categories: clays, devotion, world, heart, heart,
Form: I do not know?
Crazy Risk
One very heavy night
Dark, gloomy and pouring
It poured unceasing
Fear augustly visited my sight.

My brothers in the rain
To fetch for our stomachs' gain.

This fear invited my...

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Categories: clays, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marksmen Valentine
Triggers are red,
barrels are blue.
Smith and Wesson
I love you!

Targets are set,
guns are sighted.
In my hand,
I get excited!

Bore snakes out
Hoppe’s too
be good to them
they’ll be good...

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Categories: clays, appreciation, care, dedication, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Color My Day
In pitch black night there is no color, 
For light is color's revealer.
In daylight, your eyes see an object as white, when all light is...

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Categories: clays, color,
Form: Free verse
The Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds were sown with the maize,
Few steps away from the city highways,
Seedlings showed up after few days,
And started growing hastily on the clays,
One fine...

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Categories: clays, city, farm, morning, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forever Friends
Forever friends we are and will always be said the white rat.
This was news to the faerie, but he was nicer than her old cat.
I...

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Categories: clays, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Buhari's Poetical Graphics Representation
All efforts tabled on Nigeria;
Experiencing a fortunate miscarriage, 
Feasting Aso rock- a pizzeria 
But never admit it is the cause of this age. 

Upon the...

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Categories: clays, abuse, africa, art, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs