On the Cutting Stone
...Some days I fly like an eagle,
some days I waddle like a duck—
today I’m fried chicken
crispy, cold, out of luck.
Some days I run with wild horses,
some days I hunt with the wolfpack—
today ...
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Categories:
coarse, animal, dark, depression, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
My Friend's Wedding
...Saturday is native to weddings and ceremonies
Of anxieties – patterned in coarse sputum of rain.
My friend Bonsy and his wife filled the calendar
With the uselessness of time, levelled against was...
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Categories:
coarse, celebration, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Rhythm of a River
...Nette Onclaud, Rolling with the R’s, 8/4/2025
Rhythm of a River
rambling
funny waters,
downward rapidity
of laughter on white water raft.
uninte...
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Categories:
coarse, river,
Form: Rictameter
Joy vs bliss
...caged in a form in this domain
fleeting is joy as also pain
since we feel not one with the source
thus are prone to struggle and strain
if we give up the use of force
discarding feral instinc...
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Categories:
coarse, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
beyond limit
...
these days I question more and more
my faiths and what their purposed for
while evil grows to breadths unseen
beyond, it seems, where it has been
oh grant me sense and...
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Categories:
coarse, analogy, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
My Father's Instructions: Cooking Filet Mignon
...Have it
At room
Temperature
Before cooking.
No marinade.
Just coarse salt
And pepper.
Hot heavy pan
Medium to high heat.
Flip when seared.
Dark brown.
Lower heat.
Lotsa butter,
...
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Categories:
coarse, food,
Form: Free verse
No title
...A bond like ours is like a bud,
Innocent with no identity to mud or blood.
A bud is small and delicate,
It describes our bond as I dedicate.
A flower bud is fragile and vulnerable,
Giving our ...
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Categories:
coarse, best friend, confusion, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Behold! God has a Sense of Humor!
...
“Ah! Ah!” cried Mr. Shaw, a museum man of science in 1799,
as he carefully unwrapped a specimen from New South Wales.
It was Labeled: "It's a weird one; Caught in a creek; Dug from a burrow with ...
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Categories:
coarse, animal, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Our Own Worst Enemy
...I step out to face the night,
shielded like a medieval knight;
and count my victories boldly won,
need not count far for that is one;
drag my fingers roughly through my hair,
and stumble on...
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Categories:
coarse, allegory, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
I AM THE LIGHT WITHIN THE DARK-
...I AM THE LIGHT WITHIN THE DARK
On the course of life's highway;
I am walking to mine horizon;
In the witness I am smart;
I'm a walking to mine horizon;
I am the light, within the dark;
I am...
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Categories:
coarse, analogy, appreciation, character, dark,
Form: Lyric
Weeping willow, why do your catkins caress the fields of sunflowers
...Weeping willow, why do your catkins caress the fields of sunflowers
when they themselves are hallucinogenic dreams dancing in the secret wind?
Why do your cold and rigid branches yearn for warmth w...
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Categories:
coarse, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Steelhead Forced to Live in a Puddle
...
His spawning would be free and dedicated to those that were beholding of his challenges, those that began ahead of this time, those that look out beyond this point in time.
He would be placed ca...
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Categories:
coarse, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Give Me The Rhythm
...Your whisper is in the burble of the spring stream.
You pass through the internodes like rays through a prism.
I have composed my lyrics. I would like to sing.
My morphemes are coarse. Could you g...
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Categories:
coarse, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Work Rotter
...Spire insight of silence
Swotch and bind, conspiracy of mind
Conspire and self-protrude
Mindless matter of maddened hatter
Borne gall of uncongruent bladder
Reign wettened confections'n faux pas...
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Categories:
coarse, devotion, dream, fear, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Why Your Cities Burn, Part IV
......After a bit her cries died down,
everyone could see she was dead,
a small head hung between her thighs,
mother and son covered in red.
He had seen so much callousness,
but this he just couldn...
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Categories:
coarse, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
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