Best Whetstone Poems

brings world word ii gunnery duty 
   as extremely frightful flashback
   which utterly displeases this elderly mortal 
   and...

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Woodbury, new jersey home 
   to me self since birth
my very late mother 
   (bless her long departed soul)

   slaved and...

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A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on...

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Of European descent, from whence they came

Across the borders to settle, re-establishment

Angles, Saxons and Jutes – Anglo-Saxon be known

Conquered lands, such roads have served, that...

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Cracker-Barrel Oracle
                       ...

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Cracker-Barrel Sage

The whittler
Atop the rickety steps
Shavings piled at her ancient feet
Eyes the blade
Needing attention soon

The mongrel
Head on paws
Yawns
One eye open
Watching chips fall
Wondering

Why whittle
Worries
Boredom
Purpose

Dust swirls gritty...

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As rains and the torrentialest of snows plummet, 
Filling all the skies and the area interstitial to earth and sky 
With a frenzy of flying...

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by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

I hate the sound of mowers in the morning
it means the neighbour’s going to cut his grass
I know it won’t...

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At the heart of the gristmill in common 
is the millstone: 
A matched pair of matched round stones, one over the other.
Below is a bed-stone...

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Failure in inevitable, 
It is a necessity in disguise
It is to learn,unlearn and relearn
It is to teach lessons of life.

Failure in all spheres,
Be it love...

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My thoughts are my weapons,
my pen is my sword

My will is my whetstone,
my knighthood,
—my Lord

(Opening Poem to Novel 'Darkening Sun:' December, 2014)...

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Work, work, work ... write, write, write
          Pour your dark, deep, love-scarred being out
  ...

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Come post presidential election 2024... 

heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality, 
gender, creed, et cetera with...

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"If you cannot glean my poetry I will explain, but do not ask 
me to reveal what I've left unwritten between my lines."  ...

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Writing on sleeves
to remember your departure
and becoming a stray cloud.

The maternal touch
of the sky, you can sleep whole life
on dense logics.

White sheets were burning
unannounced in...

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