Grisper's Groove
...Neosoul and swing a melonic groove
is how she fashioned his music.
A term of endearment.
They styled the ollabartions
from words
one word supported
the other.
A circa when with the lyrics.
A ...
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Categories:
bluestone, music, sports,
Form: Ballade
Deja Vu
...I just keep seeing them, the hooves pounding those old rain-soaked cobblestones, somewhere in the back of my mind. I feel the creeping fog against someone else’s skin, not mine.
An old iron la...
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Categories:
bluestone, poems, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Gentle Man
...He was a gentle gentleman.
Quiet and refined,
Patient and kind.
He lived alone
In a small house
Made of bluestone
Without a spouse.
No encumbrances at all
He had no wish for a wife,
To com...
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Categories:
bluestone, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil Is Booed Out of Heaven
...New Moon new, new tune
It’s a lovely afternoon
New broom sweeping the town
And spiritual cleansing is scattered all around
The wind is blowing lightly
And the race is running politely
The crow...
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Categories:
bluestone, appreciation, community, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Final Class At Faraday
...There’s a bluestone building near the Calder, east of Castlemaine,
One hundred yards back off the highway, beyond a tree filled lane.
For one hundred years this building stood alone at Faraday
se...
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Categories:
bluestone, fear, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
The Haunting Mystery of Stonehenge
...THE HAUNTING MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE
It’s a prehistoric landmark,
built five thousand years ago,
who actually constructed it,
we still don’t really know.
Standing near Salisbury, England
on t...
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Categories:
bluestone, beautiful, history, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
Arsenic Cures of 1900
...Over a hundred years ago in the bush of west Queensland
the cure all for everything was,
a mixture of axle grease blue stone and arsenic.
It was known to heal up skin cancer,
sore backs...
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Categories:
bluestone, adventure, cancer,
Form: Ballad
The Blarney Stone
...a didactic poem
When eloquence leaves you a’wanting,
if verbal effluence you’re flaunting,
should your audience appear daunting,
kiss the Blarney Stone.
I climbed the circular tower,
reac...
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Categories:
bluestone, dedication, funny, places, satire,
Form: Didactic
Look At Em Crawling
...LOOK AT EM CRAWLING...
At the old Darreel pub out near Mungindi....
Trapper Joe he rode up, he come from Boggabri...
The DTs were bad with this poor old bugger Jack...
Look at em crawling he di...
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Categories:
bluestone, funnyold, horse, old, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Cerrig-Brudyn/The Astronomers Circle
...A distant dampness wrings the air.
A weight most profound presses chest
as indrawn breath holds silent;
in the stonehedge of overwhelming gloom.
So, the mighty have fallen
auguries of a mortal ...
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Categories:
bluestone, history
Form: Free verse