Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
neverth...
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Categories:
cambrian, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Stone Tablets
...Alright, for eons, you’ve got your Hadean, Archean, Proterzoic, and Phanerozic…
Wait, what?
Come on, man, keep up!
Okay, wait, Hadean? Can you spell that?
Get with it, man, H-a-d-e-a-n
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Categories:
cambrian, creation, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Lakeland
...In towns where Basic fantasy makes a frown
Nature has turned Completely upside down.
And day tours emigrate to the Cambrian shore
Onboard, the rivers boats from Windermere
moving between hills ...
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Categories:
cambrian, adventure, beautiful, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
Land of My Fathers
...The land of my Fathers is where I belong,
Its valleys and hillsides all bursting with song.
The tale of 'Myfanwy' is often retold
And grown men shed tears as the sad facts unfold.
This haunting r...
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Categories:
cambrian, beauty, daffodils, inspiration, song,
Form: Rhyme
The Ancient Stone Forest
...The rushing rivers falling fast
With fury born on high,
Cut deeply into ages past
Where fossil forests lie.
Their life and death transformed to stone
Yet titan trees are proud
To lie tog...
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Categories:
cambrian, history, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
The Angel Inside
...Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma upturning
renders marble...
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Categories:
cambrian, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
To Chat With a Raven
... Wind whispers through fingers
of ebony black pinions
Head cocked to watch me
as he drifts past my eyes
Apprising and appraising
My place in his dominion
Head cocked to watch me
As he effo...
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Categories:
cambrian, fantasy, imagination, nature, me,
Form: Rhyme
Branwen's Whisper
...You have walked with me through shadows of life,
And eased my heart through times of pain and strife.
O goddess of love and beauty I pray
The dearest Lady of the cauldron’s lake
Let your loving grace...
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Categories:
cambrian, faith, beauty, beauty, love,
Form: Sonnet
Stone Forest
...The rushing rivers falling fast
With fury born on high,
Cut deeply into ages past
Where fossil forests lie,
Their life and death transformed to stone
Yet titan trees are proud
To lie to...
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Categories:
cambrian, science, sea, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Cambrian Songs
...In flames she rises from the spray,
she's wove in waves and breeze.
Rhiannon echoes o'er the bay,
a lullaby to ease
the pains in ancient grief's sorrows.
She gently moves the wake
and mountains...
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Categories:
cambrian, faith
Form: Verse