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Best Shafting Poems

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Premium Member The Samoan Bash
I was working in the Capitol late one night 
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
Nancy Pelosi began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
She did...

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Categories: shafting,
Form: Rhyme



Inuksuk Hunter
Inuksuk Hunter
                       ...

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Categories: shafting, adventure, imagery, natural disasters,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shafting, adventure, destiny, future, imagination,
Form: Verse
Ankh Amon - Ra
Ankh Amon - Ra

Morning to the gateway of the sun
Set between lantern sea skies
The magic of those Egyptian eyes
Their incantation has begun
Turning worlds of one
Washes...

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Categories: shafting, mystery, naturenight, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy Thanksgiving
In the folly of my
life
I run and hide as
much as possible.
I also at times walk
right towards the
problem.
The statement was
not just meant for
the terminally ill:
 ...

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Categories: shafting, absence,
Form: Free verse



Water Cycle
Do spring the parched dust
of palates unhinged in thirst
waiting for cracked clouds
and marbled eyes
Do watch the grey light
shafting skin of sky and rain
sitting on the...

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Categories: shafting, life, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Correctness
The incongruity sparkles, dirty diamonds in a drain,
With hackles rising, lips drawn back, in lemon peeling pain;
A psychodrama stage of sleight springboards the stupid head,
“I...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shafting, allegory, life, parody, people,
Form: Verse
The Haunted
An excruciating Sunset gradually plunged behind my frail head
Dazzling glooms of muscular flames surrounding corners of my bed
With gleaming ominous vessels burdened by wonders of...

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Categories: shafting, abuse, birth, change, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love
Love

An enigma that knows not the count of time
A vast ocean, measureless its borderlines,

Astral light, the luscious light of smiling moon
Heavens can't fathom its pleasant,...

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Categories: shafting, introspection, love, endurance,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Moon-Lit Night
Moderately silent is the garden
Quite dazed with the moonlight
Contented with perfume
Engrossed in the opium dreams of poppies.

There the firefly lights open and disappear
On leaves and...

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Categories: shafting, light, moon, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Go To the Backyard
The backyard finally shines with green and blue
Julie stresses and storms through the shafting Saturday light
Ella cries over the tossing of her mother's old trophies
She...

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Categories: shafting, family, lifemother daughter, green,
Form: Free verse
Frames
Frames hold nature best.

A shafting of light sifts gray marsh and water--
turning past dim hills of hay
solemn in silence.

An essence of earthworms fill the air
as...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shafting, art, faith, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When We Accidentally Drove To Heaven
When we accidentally drove to heaven
My arms weren't raised.
Our speed was volatile; harmless.
Tapestrating over Maui's shafting light
Over broad and blush-green landscapes,
I felt the Name and...

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Categories: shafting, life
Form: Free verse
Dear Nephew
Always wanting something.
You make such demands of me.
Why me?

Why not the guy over the road?
Or the gal in the bar?
It’s always me isn’t it?

You want...

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Categories: shafting, character, for him, giggle,
Form: Verse
The Mesh
The mesh fashion fit
The shuttle shafting fad hand,
Parading eyes hit....

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Categories: shafting, art, beauty, fashion, work,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs