Times of uncertainty
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What say you now, before the crowd, for these most heinous crimes.
You're a wretched sort, to face this court, in most uncertain times.
A capital charge, against your heart, for loving all ...
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Categories:
bickers, conflict, corruption, devotion, extended
Form: Rhyme
In the shadow of the night that stretches its darkness around
...In the shadow of the night that stretches its darkness around,
With the whisper of stars dancing in a muted sound,
I struggled like a bird caught in a silk dream,
With a heart full of desires weav...
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Categories:
bickers, night,
Form: Free verse
Where's Icarus Now
...This poem is based upon 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' by Pieter Bruegel
Also inspired by Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden~
No farmer or merchant felt the sound
That Icarus made when he ...
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Categories:
bickers, art, dark, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle Continues
...It took me long to get here
now my mind wonders as if
it never remembered how hard it has been.
Hearts forgive and are quick to give in,
while the mind memorises all moments lived.
Yo...
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Categories:
bickers, heart, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Joyous Heart Tenses
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Joyous heart tenses, flame flickers
Light of awareness dulls
Soul is still but ego bickers
Poignant lulls, joy throb culls
Void dweller, detached stance
To flow of life does danc...
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Categories:
bickers, heart, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Pin the Tail
...PIN THE TAIL
O’Haggard Hoarfrost, she plays winks,
rocks on a sawhorse, tweedle-dee drinks.
Mad Merrie O’Boyle slays lightning from nails —
dazed loony-toon, wears out his flannel ta...
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Categories:
bickers, humor,
Form: Couplet
David Kavanagh
...D—Does nothing all day, but write annoying poems
A—And this one’s no better, just bickers and moans
V—Vainglorious imbecile, should be locked in a cell
I—Indifferent to (senior members), oh boy h...
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Categories:
bickers, allusion, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Stick and Defeat
...In the fading heat of a waning falling October night
Trick and Treat travel on their broomstick’s front seat
high speed velocity twin turbo engines in roaring flight
‘We must beat others to ...
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Categories:
bickers, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Barbershop Quartet
...Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so
Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he has a reason ...
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Categories:
bickers, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Violette Contest - Odd Thoughts
...hear the happy skittle
knows he isn't brittle
laughs at flying spittal
from the vicars
see the sullen dancer
living fearing cancer
seldom wants an answer
always bickers
smell the Christ...
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Categories:
bickers, nonsense,
Form: I do not know?
Fbow Vow
...Faith fortitudes beyond fail
Optimistic springs so tell
Rejoicing love taking sail
Best friends secrete wails
Evoking past pain not for sale
Talk freely love of sunny days
Talk freely love of...
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Categories:
bickers, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Acrostic
Table of Skulls
...Lion sits at his table with appetite
to enjoy fruits of his daily labor
Those with him during every feast
are invisible skulls of past meals
Friends and foes sing and dance
jumping all over t...
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Categories:
bickers, political, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Broken Mouth
...My son has broken mouth- confused creature carrying questions on his palm
Wherever he goes, he drops them on anybody’s face
He asked me; Dad, why is my mother called your wife?
It is because she...
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Categories:
bickers, education, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Letting Go
...Love-plants took time to grow
Every seed was sown in a sweet shadow
To you goes the whole credit
Tenderly and intensely you did it
In tense moments of charged soul
Nucleus was in a fusion goal
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Categories:
bickers, anxiety, books, depression, hope,
Form: Verse
Is She the One?
...Is she the one?
The one I call hun,
with those beautiful endless eyes,
attached to my arm like a prize.
We met and got a couple beers,
now look at us, its been 5 years.
A love is what we ...
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Categories:
bickers, girlfriend-boyfriendlove,
Form: I do not know?
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