Coll Poems

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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberUnmeant 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


Premium MemberFor 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

Premium MemberStock

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			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

Premium MemberStateless

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                         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

Premium MemberWho 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

Premium MemberTimed 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

Premium MemberNaked Death

...

			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

Premium MemberCorpus

...          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

Premium MemberBy 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

Premium MemberSoul 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

Premium MemberPoems: 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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