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To flowers once said dour thorns
...I For long faulted as wicked causing pain, And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind— Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain, Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind— An error all the same of ......

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Categories: bestirred, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
...Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me As a divergence from the apocalyptical, dialectical, geomorphological, judgmatical, metaphorical, philosophical..., I share an out of ......

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Categories: bestirred, absence, adventure, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Death When Challenged Life
...I And Death once told an oft defeated life: Look, life’s no life if lived on a knife’s edge, In struggle for survival soaked in strife, Alive with life, look at me— a red rage. And just......

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Categories: bestirred, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
He Came And Not Still
...Breeze bestirred, died down, Not even a stray leaf stirred, He came to my town And left like migrating bird, Leaving me parched, my eyes blurred. _____________________ Gulzaar | 16.03.2023 | Ta......

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Categories: bestirred, angst, love,
Form: Tanka
Not By Worldly Ways Weighed
...Dunk in dyes, tainted, nor tinted, In world, not by its ways weathered; Come, put a patch of love ‘pon me That we get not ever severed; Death, only your shelter is such, Op-eyed can one sl......

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Categories: bestirred, world,
Form: Ghazal



Be a Carefree Bird
...Live life as it goes— Of a free-willed carefree bird, Of a sprightly spring, Sighs nor e’er sorrows, Nor yet laments in life heard, A lifetime to sing! Life goes-- highs with lows, I've se......

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Categories: bestirred, bird, life,
Form: Terza Rima
The Seasons When Change
...Autumn much gentler When ends, ends biting winter, And comes when the spring, Warm weather along to bring, How do waters know to stir? ______________________________ Tanka |28.05.2021| Poet’......

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Categories: bestirred, autumn, change, seasons, spring,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Banish Me To the Bookshop
...BANISH ME TO THE BOOKSHOP Chain me, so I can roam. Lock me away in this bower. Banish me to the bookshop - i’ll enjoy this affair for hours! First editions recline behind smudg......

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Categories: bestirred, books,
Form: Couplet
The Soul of Words
...In black and white, I adore framing my inner thoughts, my worries, my wants and hopes… Words! a world of abiding renewal… a space of a bountiful solitude… a state of illusive freedom… a journey to th......

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Categories: bestirred, art, creation, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Mundanity Doth Not Mean Unfulfilling
...Though predictability prevails pertaining to my life, nonetheless a pronounceable zeal bestirred from writing, and reading (no surprise), which literary leaning, inspiring, ......

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Categories: bestirred, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 7b
...CHAPTER 7b (Ipiki, continued) Which had shared their lofty tree-nest Now the bats abruptly vanished But for one unlucky creature Which the hunting snake now swallowed And, its scaly torso......

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Categories: bestirred, adventure, africa, animal, history,
Form: Narrative
High School Sadness Sans Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One Half
...Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform i.e. most likely auditorium stage marked by pronounced hushed audience, who......

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Categories: bestirred, celebration, class, dedication, father
Form: Ballad
Mountain Lake
...Snow-capped mountains fell to the floor, Reflecting blurred images so much more. The mountain lake absorbed the sight; Random birds passed by in their flight. The lake lay there oh so soft and su......

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Categories: bestirred, nature,
Form: Verse
Thunder Rolled Across the Sky
...Thunder rolled across the sky Like some great beast about to die, Or the ancient god, now bestirred By ancient thoughts and present words. Fall arrived in her attire Of earth, water, wind and ......

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Categories: bestirred, nature, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Now You See It
...What, then, is a spirit? Whence the wafting wisp? And is a thing ethereal really real? How concrete the conscious? Does sentience have substance? Tell me, really, truly, what’s the deal? “L......

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Categories: bestirred, humanity, imagination, inspiration, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

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