Edgar Allan Poe
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It is the desire of the moth
for the star…..
- Edgar Allan Poe
I awoke this morning
to find the powdery imprint
of wings on a window
that must have been left
by a mot...
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Categories:
careered, beauty, desire, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Jill
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On a cold winters day,
Jill caught a nasty chill.
She called out the doctor,
Who pronounced she was ill.
He said, drink some water,
While you swallow this pill.
But when ...
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Categories:
careered, drink, health, water, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure
...Continued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on...
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Categories:
careered, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Once Upon a Time At Easter
...along the walk
to six acre wood
sat in the sunshine
still needing a hood
observing the swallows
swoop
& pass
over
the new growing grass
earth dry&hard
scented gorse
in ...
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Categories:
careered, easter,
Form: Pastoral
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
...tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with pri...
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Categories:
careered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Their Season Done
...So the year is nearly ending
Cold bleak winter days now pending,
Beauty though first paid a call
For came the final days of fall,
A kaleidoscope amid the trees
As swirls of gold and crimson ...
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Categories:
careered, autumn, change,
Form: Couplet
Agricultural Show Rodeo
...Across the ridges, flats and ranges, in print, on radio and stages,
you may hear this tale wherever you may go.
Sometimes a stranger may confide, about that famous ride,
in the rodeo at Mildura's ...
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Categories:
careered, adventure, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Funkadelic Colors
...Funkadelic was the rush in hydioglipics of colors.
The acoustic guitar screamed while the idioglipic paint fulfilled the scene.
I was high as a kite and on cloud nine from the ecstasy.
I am a Pop Sta...
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Categories:
careered, america, anniversary, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Poems Omega Minus - Parts One and Two
...I
For once he banished all birds
from the air
not just Mynas tick-picking
on twitching backs
but all birds, unnamed
and high bred
with each wave of his contrived hand
extending the pel...
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Categories:
careered, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Feet, Feet That Walked Away With the Toes
...Heavy the hoods of the eyes
that laboured the scan of horizons
Heavy the course of the thoughts
that sat unstirred on the sill of the stare
Heavy this ancient bottomed nose
sitting in judgment...
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Categories:
careered, history, lost, lost,
Form: Ballad