Shad Coll
...Shad Coll
It’s about collecting shadows
The woman’s dad died
She gained another shadow
It descended upon her
Dark cloud cliché
One of many...
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Categories:
coll, dark, death, feelings, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Family Get Together
...it comes onces a year
the family all comes near
if able
they eat same table
its mabe cold or coll
weather
its
HOME COMMING
FAMILY GET TOGETHER...
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Categories:
coll, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Love Supplied
...Love Supplied
The WORSE pain is when I leave your side
Inside of ME a piece had surely died
MY unique personality U take it all instride
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE is what you provide
Our BOND so stro...
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Categories:
coll, love, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
The Idea Is To
... The idea is to...
steep oneself in panacea
scriptures
when times see...
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Categories:
coll, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unmeant Meanings
... Unmeant meanings
Words keep watch
their eyes in the empty spaces
fingers feel their unformed faces
Can words mean what they were not...
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Categories:
coll, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse
For Those Who Go By His Tentmaker's Rope
... For those who go by his tentmaker’s rope
swing from one end to the other
though neither low nor too high
nothing will pass you by
if you swing not to the end of your tether
Le...
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Categories:
coll, dedication, inspirational, memory, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Stock
...
Stock
Lines derail trains made from stern stock
shunting worsted words in wagons to and fro
cabins depleted by looters piled on dock
signals distressed faces not any more
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Categories:
coll, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Stateless
...
Stateless
…thatched houses catch fire
sparrow tires from romping in the coned-flower chestnut
tree
alights on the road
tires crunch macadam
s...
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Categories:
coll, allegory, destiny, discrimination, grief,
Form: Free verse
Who Would Milk the Tigress
...Who would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless forefinger and thumb
Cows wear forlorn looks
distressed...
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Categories:
coll, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse
Timed Out
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Timed out
…with what do you buy time
in stockmarket time
where would you store time
who guards the stored stock time
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Categories:
coll, absence, destiny, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Naked Death
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Naked death
…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
the faux pas relief
from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt...
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Categories:
coll, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Corpus
... Corpus
in words
designs
coloured structures
tones movements
all the multifarious ways of being sa...
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Categories:
coll, appreciation, career, celebrity, image,
Form: Free verse
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
... by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes the time too fretful on your hands
next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all
th...
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Categories:
coll, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Soul Genocide
... Soul Genocide
No less a word than the last
for putting to rest the syllable
for every man a creed a cult
No final philosophy to last
Who can tell when the world ends
f...
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Categories:
coll, humanity, life, world,
Form: Quatrain
Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
... Poems
( i didn’t say ‘poem’)
… are as many as galactic swirling gnats mult...
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Categories:
coll, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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