The Sculptor POTD
...The wood was perfect.
Hammer in hand, he toiled.
Sweat trickled down his neck.
Her face was chiselled,
A perfect portrait:
The hawk-like nose,
The high cheekbones,
The wide brow.
But not her...
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Categories:
carbonised, anger, fantasy, fire,
Form: Free verse
Eunuch Encouragements
...Elephant trunk palms column, canopy claps hands
Undergrowth glad heart shape leaves spiral
Navigator vines map branches, brace boa banyan
Utile duenna diary with my duties conspiring
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Categories:
carbonised, angel, anniversary, blessing, friendship,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The Newer Testament
...Pon a time when history
Began with archeology
When scale skinned creatures left the sea
Evolved in time to you and me
Could be said it went awry
Parents gone, no time to cry
Buttons pressed i...
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Categories:
carbonised, war,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Ghosts In An Upside Down World
...Written words
Lines and verses
Poetry
Fragments of an author's soul
Frozen ink on paper
Entombed emotions
Imprisoned ideas
Trapped thoughts
Sentient silhouettes
Paper phantoms
Paper ghosts
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Categories:
carbonised, death, education, evil, nature,
Form: Free verse
Carnivorous Cottage Routine
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A whale in a pail is far more active in a gale or in copious amounts of hail. Putting money into sharks is a shifty act involving the shuffling of coats in cloakrooms. And clown costumes placed in...
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Categories:
carbonised, adventure, allah, allusion, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
First Friends
...First Friends
I return to an old place and old friends,
Its grey stones stand ominous henge,
Stood in a chapel that rose above the water,
Filled with well meaning, smiling sons and daughters,
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Categories:
carbonised, absence, bible, christian, deep,
Form: Free verse
Sackcloth and Ashes
...Midnight chimed day assassination,
sudden as a brain haemorrhage,
star-stabbed by psychotic pins;
issues aborted of carbonised wombs
blacked streets, tar-slithered.
Recovering drunk...
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Categories:
carbonised, life, lost love, sad,
Form: Blank verse
Sackcloth and Ashes
...Midnight chimed day assassination,
sudden as a brain haemorrhage,
star-stabbed by psychotic pins;
issues aborted of carbonised wombs
blacked streets, tar-slithered.
Recovering drunk...
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Categories:
carbonised, introspection, life, sad, social,
Form: Blank verse