Early One October Morning
...The smell of humidor
Charmed the old house and
Frightened me as I ascended the
Narrow stairwell that gentle
October morning.
The song of autumn was playing
Low, and with astute grace.
Silent, ...
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Categories:
clamping, culture, october, society,
Form: Free verse
Clamping Down
...
Humiliation
‘tween the jaws of a sandwich
Mortification
...
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Categories:
clamping, analogy, imagery, pain, surreal,
Form: Senryu
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
clamping, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
...I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magi...
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Categories:
clamping, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Lifestyle
...I have been loaded with blessings,
You may be asking;
Where are those hallowings,
That I keep announcing,
You may not be perceiving,
The reason for my sayings,
Later! I may be answering;
Your ...
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Categories:
clamping, life, philosophy, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Scoundrels of the Senate
...Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,
Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor...
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Categories:
clamping, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Playing With C For Fun
...Chicken Chuck Chiggers chose chances of Chow
Changing curly curd curiosities that happened now
Clamping clogging cleats, classifying clones of mad cow
Colorado’s colorful colonists commanding cond...
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Categories:
clamping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Unrequited
...Unrequited
Sam VanHook
How could you possibly think to love that which you do not understand?
Among the multitude of stars that shine in your midst
You, of all people, stare unrelenting at t...
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Categories:
clamping, boyfriend, crush, farewell, grief,
Form: Free verse
Literal Sense
...LITERAL SENSE :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
VERSE 1:
This ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
Concrete counterintuitive ratioed for looser and Leader;
Interim arguments to know who's worst and b...
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Categories:
clamping, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Kid Hope
...The children are being led like cattle across the grounds. They have yellow life jackets on and are holding on to rings around a rope.
They are surrounded by grownups (a funny word). The childre...
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Categories:
clamping, character,
Form: Narrative
A Winter's Day Evening False Alarm
...Pregnant mothers of the waters they give birth to
Took an afternoon/evening walk across the vast sky
As they slowly strolled across the once light-hued way
These once ivory-hued maidens took on a ...
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Categories:
clamping, beauty, day, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Escaping the Medusa
...This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew was flung.
On a raft urgently built of salvaged timbers ...
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Categories:
clamping, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Mothman
...anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidab...
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Categories:
clamping, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery,
Form: Free verse
A Thread of Music
...All music, however beautiful,
Must needs come to an end,
Leaving a thread of music etched
Into the inner reaches of the mind,
Often recalled without warning
At unexpected moments.
The acrid s...
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Categories:
clamping, emotions, memory, senses,
Form: Free verse
Sojourn
...Stow away the congeries of aches
overtly attenuating the life-force
Joints grinding bones as growing muscles waked
Oft, stomping like an apoplectic horse...
Under strained newness, a glum dispo...
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Categories:
clamping, angst,
Form: Sonnet
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