What the tea leaves reveal
...From a loud-mouth, world’s cease-fire arranger
To desperate man adrift, in danger,
Which, naught quite was rendered,
Panned, having surrendered,
And what is worse than that,
For a rival to bat,
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Categories:
conceded, humor, usa,
Form: Limerick
Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
conceded, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Rolling the Dice
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Ruby Tuesday caught him on the rebound
They met at a Rolling Stones Concert
He was glad she came into his life, he conceded
She was nice to have around
To fill the void his h...
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Categories:
conceded, absence, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
dreaming of life
...
Thanatos granted him a morbid dream in overdrive
the grim reaper at first in the distance of slumber
quietly wielded a blunt axe in dendritic surprise
as if to prolong agony and awakening of the...
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Categories:
conceded, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Jade Stone's :::Vanity:::
...Let he who is without vanity cast the first insult
Vain to me smacks of superficialities which
in the long run prove fragile and meaningless
You can be proud of your accomplishments
wit...
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Categories:
conceded, vanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Heart, Felled as a Tree
...Deprived of your love I become a will-o-the-wisp,
a ghostlike entity, whose illumination has faded
with the echoing of your final word, "Goodbye."
Not a daunting wisp of the shimmering kind,
nor ...
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Categories:
conceded, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Undertow
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We met on the seam
between two drownings,
his cuff snagged in the kelp,
my mouth lined with moss.
He grinned
like a man who'd forgotten the surface,
held out his hand like a memory.
I t...
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Categories:
conceded, art, dance,
Form: Ekphrasis
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories:
conceded, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Heart-centric stillness
...Opting to feel, rather than think,
sensing energy flow in form,
as a non-doer we receive
hues of bliss flavoured with love’s ink
and as we’re centred in this storm,
soul’s at peace when ego begs...
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Categories:
conceded, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet
The Side Effects Of Evil: Part 1
...An excerpt from my new short story:
Contributing factors, however, are deemed as an assortment embracing negativity and were reinforcements for the young idealist. Granted to resonate by the dark ...
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Categories:
conceded, allegory, evil, introspection,
Form: Narrative
The Battle
...Twilight arrived before we could prepare.
The watch fires were cold. Not properly set.
Our adversaries we knew were aware.
But night would fall soon… no time to regret.
Armies had massed just o...
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Categories:
conceded, war,
Form: Sonnet
Adrenaline Junket
...The vague and the abstract turned into a contract,
adrenaline junkies, now joined in a dare.
With hands up, no screaming, they’d both go careening,
defying gravity at the State Fair.
W...
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Categories:
conceded, flying, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Midway II
...As frothing wakes unveil a racing tide
a frontal surge unleashed intended taunt,
‘twas but a strafe to lead the prey outside
then strike a blow amidst the faring jaunt.
To draw first blood, then...
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Categories:
conceded, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Soul Speak
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True feelings concealed craftily
beneath the sheath of surfeit psyche,
fragile fantasy of self sanguinity fostered
by the colors of chameleon skin,
evoke emotions surreptitious,
pretentiou...
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Categories:
conceded, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
IN A WORLD WHERE I DO NOT EXIST
...IN A WORLD WHERE I DO NOT EXIST
In a world where I do not exist
Nor believe I am entitled to be
Then that will be my destination
Following a period of gestation
And do not need a reservation
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Categories:
conceded, fantasy, future, journey,
Form: Rhyme
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