Brexit
...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...
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Categories:
bivouac, political,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Ones
...I often sit in quiet contemplation of my surroundings. In silent observation I process the changes that nature presents, just for my viewing pleasure. Through the changes of the seasons I watch plant...
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Categories:
bivouac, age,
Form: Free verse
Danke Bitte Und Mehr
...Danke Bitte und Mehr
David J Walker
It was a land of foreign thought
And I was the denizen drifter
In uniform that hid my ignorance
and poverty
In an OD Green costume that was
Barely me
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Categories:
bivouac, analogy, community,
Form: Rhyme
A Band Donned Around Ring Finger of Left Hand
...A band donned... Around ring finger of left hand
Yes folks (meaning,
whomever espies these lines) alas and alack
I attest thy spouse located future heirloom -
while tentatively asleep in her bi...
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Categories:
bivouac, adventure, blessing, depression, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Beat Generation
...Long arm gendarme
My mistake namaste
Backpack bivouac
On the Road with Kerouac
Brilliant stars, silent nights
Fireflies, Northern Lights
Mountain streams, fresh air
Fall asleep anyw...
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Categories:
bivouac, addiction, america, freedom, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Unraveling Life
...We set up our bivouac of life
by the world's battlefield,
It befits us then
that we live not in peace
nor die free from strife.
There’s got to be more to life
than work, marriage and kids,
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Categories:
bivouac, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Grandpa
...He taught me how to catch a trout,
To take it home and clean it out.
Fillet the bone from head to tail,
With nothing, but knife and pail.
He taught me how to bivouac,
To stake a tent and find ...
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Categories:
bivouac, character,
Form: Rhyme
Borodino Part 1 By Mikhail Lermontov
...Guv, tell me, not without the reason
our Moscow in the fired treason
was burnt and left for French.
Oh, there were fights I see their splendours
so awesome and we have the embers,
No wonder Rus...
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Categories:
bivouac, anger, conflict, memory, murder,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A Tragic Pilgrimage
...The pilgrims wash
their inner stains out
with the wet words
in Uttarakhand, the
land of gods.
The unexpected flood
rises above all her
expected blessings.
Her father floats away
like an ...
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Categories:
bivouac, death, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Illusion
...The morning falls from wings of day
beaming light in the fields of hay
and thine smile is now in sight
...
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Categories:
bivouac, crush, cry, feelings, first
Form: I do not know?
Harmony
...In the bivouac field of life's main
All things are uncertain
From the wide spread of the elms
'Til the motion of the films.
A life's solemn swear
Is not to let the tear
Drop in vainless mort...
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Categories:
bivouac, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Quivers Full of Arrows
...When a puny mind
with no virtue of humility
Tries to reach the heights above
But threatened by a fall into
the depths below
A life with no intentional destiny
No bivouac
No ideal but tediu...
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Categories:
bivouac, confusion, identity,
Form: Classicism
Uncle Peacock
...llllllllllllllllll
Uncle Peacock was a cock of the walk
Chucked his job to camp in a bivouac
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Categories:
bivouac, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
How We Enter Paradise
...Ode to a canvas print
Background: a sullen sky, pale
light at horizon. Green-water sea
of snowcapped swells, hint of
nightfall in the breaking waves.
Foreground: a bivouac of logs stand ...
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Categories:
bivouac, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Bivouac Jack
...SingleSting MingleFling
GreatFate MateDate
KissBliss MissPriss
EagleSpread RegalBed
GownDown FrownDrown
RudeDude NudePrude
SlyTry ThighHigh
FlankSpank DankCrank
Sl...
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Categories:
bivouac, family,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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