Blaze
...I had the nicest rooster,
An Orpington named Blaze.
He was around for several years
Until a fox ended his days.
His feathers were burnt orange,
A handsome shade of buff.
A pair of deadly spu...
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Categories:
caspian, animal, bird, death, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Caspian
...
The Caspian coast.
The country is far away,
We are left behind, sent on vacation by God.
The sea greeted us with open arms,
Let’s swim, take a long stroke.
Come on, let's go with the current!
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Categories:
caspian, sea,
Form: Free verse
I Am a Puzzle
...I am a puzzle
made of pieces.
One for the girl who woke my heart,
one for the girl who broke it,
one for the man who shook it,
one for the man who took it
(when it wasn’t his to take),
one for...
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Categories:
caspian, absence, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Does the Gog and Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39 happen during the tribulation part one Q and A
...Q: Who actually begins the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38:1-3
A: The word of the Lord came to me. "Son of Man, set your face against Gog,
of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshec...
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Categories:
caspian, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
The Black Sea
...Over land and sea
illuminating black pearls
reflecting memories
back to me the warm
breeze singing me tuneful
melodies I crave the sullen
hints of morning dew near dawn
a playful harmony...
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Categories:
caspian, allah, arabic,
Form: Ballad
A New Species
...The Thylacine, the Caspian tiger,
the Caribbean monk seal…
As these beasts disappear,
the most cruelty-vorous species appears.
They are homologous with humans
but their bearings are too br...
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Categories:
caspian, fear,
Form: Free verse
When I Die
...When I die will I have known I took a trip to Dubai?
Or when I once sailed along the Caspian Sea
Will that time and place remember me?
Will I have known I toured the African plain?
Or trailed the...
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Categories:
caspian, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Water Hand Pump
...Water Hand Pump
I wonder whence the pipe goes?
Underground Niagra, Mississippi or Caspian Sea?
Working the Up-Down Handle like Punching a PIN,
A Subterranean ATM of Cool Crystal Quench,
Sometime...
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Categories:
caspian, childhood, nature, technology, water,
Form: Free verse
Come Home Soldier
...COME HOME SOLDIER
No more sounds of tanks,
The rain of bullets has seized,
Grenades are no more fund,
Remove your helmet and lie down,
Let the peaceful breeze calm your head,
The era...
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Categories:
caspian, cheer up, military, war,
Form: Sonnet
Fantasy World 2
...FANTASY WORLD 2
In the field all alone,
Adorned by the wind blowing,
I lay down to stretch my bones,
Looking up the sky,
Seeing glittering stars,
The clouds moving.
Light moved towards...
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Categories:
caspian, cinderella, crush, desire, princess,
Form: Romanticism
Palmwine
...PALMWINE
The tapper ascends the height,
To get it from the palm sap,
The height he descends having the mysterious gift of nature,
Crystal like the caspian sea.
Grey hairs with their cups...
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Categories:
caspian, africa, celebration, happiness, happy,
Form: Classicism
To What End
...I waited
Under the outspread foliage
Of the banana tree,
With ripening fruits dangling precariously,
Wondering,
With eyes set on the earth,
Wishing I understood
This everlasting madness.
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Categories:
caspian, bereavement, birth, confusion, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Silent Lies and Deception
...Silent Lies and Deception
In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue
The KGB shall set y...
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Categories:
caspian, corruption, evil, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Camberwell Adventurer
...The whirling Dervish leaves fell…
Clouds of reindeer from the kebab
House as well, in deepest down town
Camberwell …a Turkish Christmas
…he announced
“Come and hunt wolves in the Caspian
Mo...
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Categories:
caspian, memory,
Form: Free verse
I Was Birthed In the Middle of the Middle Ages
...A BUTTERFLIGHT’S MR. RIGHT
Last night was television and going to sleep at eight
You were exhausted even though it wasn’t very late
So upon your pillow placed placidly lay comforted by soft
Unt...
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Categories:
caspian, fantasydream, home, dream, home,
Form: Quatrain
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