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Premium Member The Rime of the Swarthy Bard
Math, physics, English, and so on—
    alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on 
    with a prime axiom....

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Categories: swarthy, humor, rap, satire, student,
Form: Bio



The Acorn's Secret
As last surviving acorn,
I hang about all day.
My skin is smooth and swarthy
Beneath a chic beret.
Horse chestnuts call me puny
But I don’t really care
For Mother...

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Categories: swarthy, hope, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Lonely Lighthouse
The Smeaton Eddystone's architecture 
First lighthouse protecting navigators
Light blinking, pulsating, luminously
Loud foghorn resounding resonantly
Guides shipwrecked mariners vigilantly
Or swarthy seafarers incessantly
On oceans perilous, tempestuous
A sailor’s salvation...

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Categories: swarthy, light, sea,
Form: Verse
Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire




Afraid for your miscreant soul
While the Devils licking tongues of flame at your heel
With oh so dirty thoughts

Afraid for the flesh
As you are...

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Categories: swarthy, devotionprayer, life,
Form: Free verse
On Ebony Sails
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
ever haunting in devious wombs...
tattered voyagers embarking to the confine,
and by nightfall, swarthy leather pants
whip and crack like the...

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Categories: swarthy, adventure, nature, sea, visionary,
Form: Free verse



Tracks Through Time
TRACKS THROUGH TIME

The Sand and pebbles of this stoney 
way
Once made a shore on warm Jurassic sea
High dunes in desert, by great ocean bay
Now heathland...

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Categories: swarthy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Chocolate
Thank God for black on black bigotry,
oh the sweet dark chocolate they left for 

me.

Thank you for their eyes did not see
swarthy is the beauty...

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Categories: swarthy, beauty, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Impression
Wave a sea softened
                  and a pain and...

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Categories: swarthy, allegory, angel, baptism, beach,
Form: Ballade
Sailing On Home
While the water’s whitened waves
Flew forth fast in foamy sprays
All amidst an airy act
Blowing, blasting, beating back
Seeing swarthy, seaward sailing ships
Onward o’er the ocean dips
Upward,...

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Categories: swarthy, adventure, ocean,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Mirror
The Mirror

When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be.  A little lost girl that was...

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Categories: swarthy, change, child abuse, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Reflections of Humanity During a Snowstorm
Bristling yet beguiling winds are
driving snow sheets through the dark,
and, secured by brick and lamp,
I draw a comforter to my breast,
one woven by humanity.

I sense...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swarthy, color, history, humanity, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surfers
Seven swarthy swimmers
Sailboard so silently
Surfing stormy seas

31st July 2016...

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Categories: swarthy, beach, ocean,
Form: Alliteration
The Refugee
A Refugee 
He had been given a lift by a Lithuanian truck driver
to a little town in inland Norway where the winter 
starts in September...

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Categories: swarthy, boat, boyfriend, business, care,
Form: Sonnet
Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict
Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that...

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Categories: swarthy, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse
Erotica - January 2nd, 2017
this culinary humble verboten pie eating older mwm 
   in sore want of coital aid
with no intent to rile nor up braid
certainly not...

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Categories: swarthy, adventure, age, desire, dream,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things