Always
you always had a way with words
like Amsterdam
whose running rhymes
of bicycles and harpsichords
and bridges over canals caused
us both to steer each other's hold
to mouths whose distance
was decreasing,
slowly through museum pieces
though I always hoped to linger
nestled inside yours
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Categories:
canals, kiss, life, love, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
The Carcass Catacomb and the Corpse Canals
In the dark recessions of the corpse canals,
Where the breaking of bones sounds the eerie air like the clanking of bells,
Where the tearing of tendons whistle and hiss,
Echoing across blood water lakes laced with piss.
Found deep within a Carcass Catacomb, where the restless undead candidly roam,
There are, unfortunately, the unlucky few
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Categories:
canals, angst, dark, death, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Ballad of the Harecastle Tunnel
The moon shone on the water
Dyed ochre by the iron mines.
Centuries of men have toiled
In trenches and in chines.
Carving through the sheer rock face
To tunnel under hills
Canals to link the land of wealth
To the cities of the mills.
Airless channels deep below
While all above is calm
And death could be a breath away
Placed
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Categories:
canals, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Dry Canals of the Gathering
Those who crown themselves with miters and croziers
Are dry and barren canals to which I shall describe
Boats remain frozen in their abandoned and void place
The waters being a simulacrum of doctrines
Only the arid wind gives a sense of forward time
The bubbling and fizzing spring they cut from themselves
Those who
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Categories:
canals, anger, religion, religious, sad,
Form: Free verse
Amsterdam
Amsterdam.
Calm, gentle.
Cycling, boating, walking.
Tulips, cobbles, bakeries, fresh air.
Eating, drinking, sight-seeing.
Modern, historic.
Holiday.
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Categories:
canals, beautiful,
Form: Diamante
A Jellyfish Danced, Through Canals of Venice
A jellyfish danced, through canals of Venice,
To look in awe, at a superior menace,
That thought that it could take over a planet,
Each land it conquered, small groups inhabit.
And now, it seems, this species of ill,
Has had to watch earth, through a window sill,
As nature reforms and unites in wonder,
The animals returned, from grounds they’re under.
Covid
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Categories:
canals, dedication, earth, encouraging, health,
Form: Rhyme
Crooked Canals.
Crooked canals seem to cancer my minds passages,
They flank my system and the first symptom is anger,
The situation goes from capable to cancelled packages.
Forgotten practices redeem the handled danger.
Turbulence in my undercarriages causes confusion in my passengers,
Nose die from 1400 feet, am i supposed to be this high?
Bodies as rag dolls grounded by seat fasteners.
Closed
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Categories:
canals, death, cancer,
Form: Rhyme