Pens of Praise
...The factories no longer exhale fumes but fillers
Clanging steel is traded for selfie stick.
Whip is gone but the gaze remains.
Wage is still dingy and stale.
Accepted without questions.
When t...
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Categories:
calves, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Whatever You Want It To Be
...Your golden calf
speaks artfully in my ear
marketing its millions of worshipers-
whispers of temptation to be like you-
If all life produces are idolators
from the gold calves they adore...
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Categories:
calves, introspection, perspective, philosophy, society,
Form: Free verse
arthritis makes a poem
...Arthritis in my knees, my buttocks and my toes
Arthritis in my elbows, my calves, and my nose
Age brought arthritis into me good and hard.
I’m sure there’s a poem in this, said the optimistic bard...
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Categories:
calves, age,
Form: Rhyme
Blue cheese and old pickles
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I shudder while peering at sepia photographs,
showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house.
Even though I was very young
it was clear she didn’t tolerate children.
I was to be ‘Seen and not...
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Categories:
calves, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
Weight of wait
..."A mother's love is whole no matter how many times divided."
- Quote by Robert Brault
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Cubs, Calves, Chicks, Foals,
Kittens, Puppies,...
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Categories:
calves, mother,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
...There come those nights—you know the sort:
The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window,
Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song th...
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Categories:
calves, love, metaphor, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Black Shrine
...This is our black shrine,
Where my father lit the lamp.
With dried dung in the cauldron,
My mother stoked the fire.
In the village, the sheepfold remains,
Where the ewes gave birth to lambs,
Th...
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Categories:
calves, family,
Form: Free verse
Wild Flower Love
...O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
th...
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Categories:
calves, devotion, flower, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
Dusty Box of Memories
..."Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet
Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box,
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Categories:
calves, home, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
My Rose Garden
...My Rose Garden was devoured by a cow that thought it was a bull.
The farmer and his wife pleaded with the cow to go back to the field.
But it refused by stomping and grunting.
Now what remains is ...
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Categories:
calves, animal,
Form: Free verse
Just a Rumor
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My thighs and buttocks have dimples…
So I'm grateful they have so much to smile about! As my stretch marks, or laugh lines rather, can attest.
You must forgive my breasts…they've been ...
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Categories:
calves, body, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Eternal Paradise
...Bears and Calves will eat together
Children will play with snakes that slither
We'll be tired of work, but we'll satisfied
We experience peace outside and inside
Coffee and tea, together with...
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Categories:
calves, dream, good morning, hope,
Form: Free verse
Nakedness
...when i was little i thought love meant kindness and sharing.
i thought it meant smiles and sweet words.
when i got a little older i thought love meant kindness and sweet words and being naked.
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Categories:
calves, appreciation, corruption, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The cat instruction manual
...Make one's self scarce when that cage
suddenly appears and before they
splash that sticky mess that to our
fur adheres..
Learn how to get attention when no
one seems to listen by increasing the
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Categories:
calves, animal, cat, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The House that, El the deceased priest built for the LORD, part nine NIV
...1 Samuel 6:9-21 continued
But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand us that it happened to us
by chance."
So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the...
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Categories:
calves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
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