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Premium Member Watchtowers
Titans tilting, tangibly human windmills
Swaying sentries, harboring haloed witness 
  Lofted coal mines, timber canary cages  
      ...

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Categories: watchtowers, nature,
Form: Sapphic stanza



My Only Childhood Friend That Never Threw Me Away
She's on the Verge
Joe cool
She talks to her hand
like seriously duh
the joke im not telling
we used to be witches writing poetry in coffee shops
smoking pot...

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Categories: watchtowers, hope, life, people, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Lesser Mortals
What lesser mortals? 

What lesser mortals
than Rimbaud
claim themselves 
a poet within 
another self, 
for there is more 
than just one self

depending on the
time and day...

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Categories: watchtowers, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Crones
Five gray, silver, and white haired crones
Navigated slimy green stones
Like tight rope walkers
Having been summoned by the wind talkers
They crossed a shallow creek
Each feeble and...

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Categories: watchtowers, magic, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Great Wall
Stone elongated nearly 4 thousand miles,
across the country of china, smiles.
The 16th century would see many small,
fortifications become a great wall.
The long wall's surface area...

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Categories: watchtowers, education, history, people,
Form: Free verse



Rain
I        smelled rebirth           as    ...

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Categories: watchtowers, africa, beauty, childhood, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Islands In the Stream
Islands in the Stream

Islands linked together like forged argent charms, 
In straights of silent, surging currents,
Where Watchtowers of Fresnel lens sound fog sirens
Where sacred shoals...

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Categories: watchtowers, adventure, introspection, journey, light,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 14d
Chapter 14d (King Ptolemy the second, cont.)

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Africa-adventures-Phil-Salmon/dp/197392479X


“And upon the open ocean
Far from land in roving sail-ships
How to find the congregations 
Of the sharks and rays...

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Categories: watchtowers, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 12c the Fireflower
Chapter 12 (c) The Fireflower (continued)

So forthwith it was decided 
That upon the next day’s dawning 
They would send a party swiftly 
Inland by a...

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Categories: watchtowers, adventure, africa, animal, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Truce Hovers In the Air
An uneasy truce hovers in the air
    combatants tense, no soldier dares
  to catch a minute's sleep
    the...

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Categories: watchtowers, fear, soldier, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Brexit Sonnet 46 - a Brexit Gift
Brexit Sonnet No. 46
‘A Brexit Gift’
 

What larks! A Brexit gift with double bow,
A tale of two shires with border slung between.
As cameras flash, a...

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Categories: watchtowers, political,
Form: Sonnet
Where She Will Find Love
There she was moments before
she flew away from the snare
in your arms a songless owl.

Strewn pictures on the floor, half-hearted
sketches of her face, her forgotten
velvet...

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Categories: watchtowers, courage, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vallum Hadriani
              Hadrian's wall
        Stood proud...

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Categories: watchtowers, england, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Where She Will Find Love
There she was moments before
she flew away from the snare
in your arms a songless owl.

Strewn pictures on the floor, half-hearted
sketches of her face, her forgotten
velvet...

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Categories: watchtowers, beauty, break up, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jehovahs Unwitnessed
Unworthy of the Watchtowers gaze
No gentle guiding dove
A million miles away, was He
The God I chose to love

Abused, my innocence defiled
By those I’m taught to...

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Categories: watchtowers, abuse, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs