Hide of Tyke in Hold
...Heartthrob in damsel drag
Belief of human bile
Completely instilling cascading dregs of mechanical flesh, bones and spit
64th avenue
And coiling deft doom
Winged balls of bulging blood and spec...
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Categories:
collier, abuse, desire, drug, film,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of Christmas Past
...Ghosts of Christmas Past
I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day
I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog...
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Categories:
collier, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Jukebox Jive
...A swift half of cider in the Bodega bar
sadly none of us could afford a car.
Dropping a shilling in the snug juke box
Haley and Elvis,then so unorthodox
Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier ...
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Categories:
collier, dance, music,
Form: Bio
Saturday Night 50's Style
...Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square,
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores
in the Oxford 'green un'.
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Categories:
collier, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Mute Hearts of Babylon
...
"The Mute Hearts of Babylon"
the day
the poets died
a cloud past
over the eyes
of those
who required
the dance
in music
storms
calmly stole
electric love
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Categories:
collier, freedom, future, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
E Pluribus Unum
...Carrying worn suitcases packed tightly
with meager possessions, lofty dreams,
bringing hearts filled
with longings
for the familiarity of homelands
and family left behind,
they came to America....
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Categories:
collier, america, immigration, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Hatcher Hollow Becomes Me
...Hatcher Hollow is old white colonizer's country
my cousin sold me this precious land property
My ancestors lived im Mc Ewen Tn for centuries
my ancestors lived and died in Humphrey county
my pe...
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Categories:
collier, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, What Is Life:
...Oh, What Is Life?
(Written for Kay Collier McLaughlin-With gratitude to Thomas Merton)———
What? What is life?
No concise, assuaging answer comes.
For there are no stepping stones outside
For a...
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Categories:
collier, appreciation, blessing, christian, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Pony
...
"Pony"
Taken
Lead
By Whisper,
Bit
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Old Town Road + Pony Mashup"
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Categories:
collier, freedom, journey, muse,
Form: Free verse
Born Under the Lucky Star
...I wonder how things would be if I lived my origin and was apart of my tribe
I wonder what i could learn about my ancestry and how my thought and feelings would vibe
the fruit of knowledge came fro...
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Categories:
collier, america,
Form: Rhyme
My Old Settler Bloodline
...Our first bloodline land grand owner was Daniel Collier born 1775 in Sussex Virginia in my family tree
the next following heirs had land by ;Benjamin Green berry collier, Hugh Collier and Willi...
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Categories:
collier, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Man Crazy
...hair brylcreamed.
into town
to the pub in the square,
our gang always met there
trad jazz with Donegan,
Bilk or Collier
or maybe the ballroom for
bacchan...
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Categories:
collier, music,
Form: Bio
Mayflower Impact
...I heard our ancestors came on the mayflower boat
sad part there was not a journal or a note
it sounds like a miracle my early grandparents Thomas and Susan Collier landed on Plymouth rock
a vision...
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Categories:
collier, america,
Form: Rhyme
Mayflower Frontier
...My British grandparents Thomas and Susan Collier were American original descendants.
they sailed the rough sea for their independence
I believe they came on the mayflower voyage ship and landed i...
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Categories:
collier, america,
Form: Rhyme
Bustling River
...Elizabeth: squat river with cranes, tugs, wharfs abristle,
Its broad, deep-dredged breadth plied by warship and merchant mammoth,
Ships with haughty grandeur gliding along buoyed channel—
Lofty ti...
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Categories:
collier, river,
Form: Verse
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