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Premium Member Death Watches
A vision through the haze of time and rhyme
a mirrored beauty, Helen sits and waits.
I see her through the window for it's late,
at dawn, I'll...

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Categories: stanchion, fear,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Tyke Voices
She grabbed at the quarter full pop bottle neck, 
cream soda from Marsh’s,
and held like a truncheon, in the harshest
of voices 
produced an otherworldly sound,...

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Categories: stanchion, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mea Culpa, Extol Belles-Lettres
The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the...

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© R.G. Inigo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stanchion, adventure, imagination, nature, on
Form: Free verse
Railroad Boy
Where have all the cabooses gone,
Red slab sided, cupola, curved roof, 
Friendly stove pipe hat, every kids wish,
Moveable tree house clickety-clacking
Cozily rolling across America
Snappy visored...

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Categories: stanchion, childhood, children, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainy Days
The revelations of winter pass now,
the captured moments of vertical strife,
the stanchion of paper white birch forests
rigid on the black scratch board of rocky hillock
soon,...

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Categories: stanchion, allegory, hope, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse



Life To Live
Where have all the cabooses gone,
Red slab sided, cupola, curved roof, 
Friendly stove pipe hat, every kids wish,
Moveable tree house clickety-clacking
Cozily rolling across America
Snappy visored...

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Categories: stanchion, allegory, childhood, children, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Antebellum Elegy
Prologue
 
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion 
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
It is an unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed...

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Categories: stanchion, history, native american,
Form: Elegy
The Brown Recluse
The Brown Recluse, its pathway goes
Past radiator’s stanchion rows
On to the corner, up the wall
Across the ceiling then to fall
Upon my bed. But no one...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stanchion, sick,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Amorous Obstacles
Z apping a Beautiful Countess Doesn’t Ever Get Her

I n Juicy Kiss Lip Mode, No, Or Picking Que’s Roses. She Takes Useless Vows With X,Y,Z.

G...

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Categories: stanchion, adventure, funny, imagination,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hot Summer Day
Who knew that we would find a way
To cool ourselves, that summer day
Bored with creating ways for fun
All simmering in the August sun

(Oh, but for...

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Categories: stanchion, childhood, fun, summer, water,
Form: Rhyme
The Fourth of July
Unfurled and draped
Clasped to rugged stanchion holds
Fiery colors so recently encased
Now blazon; presentation bold

Flap and flourish; draw attention…
Iconic salve for fickle folk
Most every other day,...

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Categories: stanchion, history, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Pain of Love
Do you know where my heart goes?  
It moves in and out of me.  
I don't have the strength to put it aside,...

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© Fitz Cook  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stanchion, love, passion, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Peacock's Pall /Avebury Churhyard, Enland Uk
Round goes the spiral
looping the path.
Straight stand the stones
high in green grass.

Round goes the moat
circling the tor;
solitary stanchion saracens
high altars they bore.

Round goes the blood
red...

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Categories: stanchion, devotion
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of Wine
A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog. 
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman 
Strains to see beyond the...

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Categories: stanchion, adventure, sea,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Tales From the Hollow
In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches
Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds
One in particular had hollowed inside this...

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Categories: stanchion, destiny, earth, fate, home,
Form: Rhyme

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