Tears of soul
...I want to cry away my soul
Slowly and painful
I want to feel every drop
When it's touching the floor
I want each tear that drops
to be every minute till moment ago
I want it to be slow and ...
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Categories:
cassowary, anxiety, conflict, cry, freedom,
Form: Free verse
From Up Here
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Gushing garish grin greets God’s playhouse
Enthusiastic thrust roars cacophony chorus
Onyx walls leer clown mouth, splash pounce
Mountain morose bellows waterfall raucous ...
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Categories:
cassowary, adventure, anti bullying, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Shoebill
...My bill you can't forget
My feet always wet
Hodge-podge of many likes
Walker of many sikes
My stork or cassowary-like body
My wide wings flapping steady
Legs trekking from Sudan to Zambia
My...
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Categories:
cassowary, bird,
Form: Rhyme
You Can'T Smother a Person With a Pillow
...We begin the zoom call
I only look at myself
Most of me is taken up
With the bedroom window
I imagine a large
Serpentine creature
Of folklore at the window
That only I can see
I imagine a...
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Categories:
cassowary, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Field Guide 2
...if i could
be a bird
i'd be
a cassowary
without
worries
that i
can't
fly
what are
these things
called wings...
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Categories:
cassowary, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Arches National Park
...There are many beautiful parks in the world
Each is a wonder to behold
Selous game reserve is special for me
Because not only of a number of bird species one can see
Not only the wild dogs, hip...
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Categories:
cassowary, places,
Form: Free verse
World War 3
...World War 3
And now as the generation that remembers how bloody
a world war is, and how many millions suffered and died,
is forgotten a distant past and again the black winged
Bird of war is fl...
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Categories:
cassowary, war, , literature,
Form: Blank verse
The Presence
...I am at my very beginning old shelter,
Yet I feel very lonely,
Is it something which missed my heart?
Churn'd my smooth heart.
I am like a cassowary bird
Chunk'd from flying.
I lay down on m...
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Categories:
cassowary, heart,
Form: Verse
The Kadaitchi Witch Doctor Knight
...HARRY WEST
The Kadaitchi (Witch Doctor) Knight
Harry stood alone and sniffed the breeze
a pongy hay smell, Japanese
Harry sheltered there beneath a tree
a gum tree dripping sap
The Black Knight...
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Categories:
cassowary, angst
Form: Rhyme
Big, Big Bird
...I saw a big bird today at a local zoo.
Its habitat is akin to that of a kangaroo.
It was glaring at all as if to say,
"Okay! I saw all, now go away!"
Its digits can agonizingly kick,
As if ...
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Categories:
cassowary, funnybird, bird,
Form: Rhyme