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Best Up To The Hilt Poems

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Taxed To the Hilt

My hero is Henry David Thoreau
Rather than pay taxes, to jail he’d go
     With Uncle Sam’s hand out
   ...

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Categories: up to the hilt, angst, funny
Form: Limerick

Malaise In My Heart

There is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...

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Categories: up to the hilt, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

A Moment In Time

She hid the pain behind a smile 
as she walked slowly down the aisle.
Her doubts she struggled to restrain 
behind a smile she hid the...

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Categories: up to the hilt, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Quatrain

A Poet Plus Teacher- PS

Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I...

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Categories: up to the hilt, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form: Free verse

The Headless Horsemen

On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...

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Categories: up to the hilt, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Closing the Door On the Past

It’s been many years since I’d climbed the wooden steps to my parent’s attic. The hinges of the trap door creak and a cloud of...

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Categories: up to the hilt, childhood, memory, moving on,
Form: Haibun

Love's Last Wound

Friends?
Are we still friends?
Can we JUST be friends?!?
Oh such a horrid, charity-stained question!

What a keen and salient dagger it wields!
The pity that you wear like...

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Categories: up to the hilt, heartbreak, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

A Lovely Little Day Dream

The cinnamon scented days
in your grandiose porcelain cups,
as you would like to say,
in grass green warmth of May
of the sandal wood shadow
in your valley
made of...

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Categories: up to the hilt, death, desire, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse

return to Flanders fields -

my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
          on throes of horrors shrouded with the...

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Categories: up to the hilt, history, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme

Dragon's Tooth

A top the verdant mountains of nirvana,
A most limitless effulgent radiance
Across azure sky, spilled crimson horizon;
         ...

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Categories: up to the hilt, fantasy,
Form: Sapphic stanza

It Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind Eyes

It Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind Eyes

It saw me through such dastardly purblind eyes
Up there overhead with silent anger
What a truly ghastly, dangerous beast
On...

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Categories: up to the hilt, dark, death, dream, evil,
Form: Sonnet

Norse Mythology, Return of the Slayer of Dragons

Norse Mythology, Return Of The Slayer Of Dragons

( Part One, Darkness Arrives)

I - (THE PLEA)

Slayer of weak beasts, ravager of torn breasts
Darkness from East, dragons...

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Categories: up to the hilt, art, conflict, creation, destiny,
Form: Epic

The Fairy Ring and Dragon

Dragon found a Fairy Ring and quickly jumped inside! Heaven Forbid!
Dancing round and round, he suddenly disappeared. Yes! He surely did!
As he disappeared I knew...

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Categories: up to the hilt, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse

In Awe of the Wind

You whine and whistle, ghostlike, when you round
		the corner of my cottage in the cove.
		You sweetly soothe or taunt and terrify.
		No one on Earth dictates...

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Categories: up to the hilt, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme

Great Majestic Ball

It's the evening of the year
The great majestic ball.
I go along trembling with fear
No one will ask me to dance at all.

The lights are blazing...

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Categories: up to the hilt, dance, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme