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Three Turtle Songs
... Turtle by the Door The bears and wolves are few, one threadbare widow mourning, two grays as consumptive as smoke. The large dwindle, their bodies grow more awkward, more at odds. The heav......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
consumptive,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Zephyr
...Wandering winds wind through tall thin trees sending constant consumptive croaks with sustained sonority. Quaking querulously a mellow message, a somber song, sweetly sung by a zephyr......
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Linda Alice Fowler
Categories:
consumptive,
environment, nature, song, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Screams
...Bitter and corrosive Not like lemon juice-or vinegar Like battery acid Consumptive Skin falling off bone Glass house dreams crunching under haste Consuming Bone evaporating to ash Notio......
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Hannah Hockaday
Categories:
consumptive,
addiction, allusion, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Don'T Work Too Hard
...Don't Work TOO Hard! The phrase, "Don't work TOO hard!" rolls off the tongue like breathing out into a vacuum 'vampires' dream (that sucks space dry between consumptive hear......
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Roof Missing
Categories:
consumptive,
poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tale of Billy the Kid
...William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid A Tale Of Billy The Kid By Robert Gorelick “Quien esta?” Bang! It’s over, you’re a legend now, Billy. Born in Hell’s Kitchen in ramshackle con......
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Robert Gorelick
Categories:
consumptive,
character, death,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Spam-O-Rama-Dama
...Spam-O-Rama-Dama Try this tonight: One Shot Keto Fungus Destroyer. Put This spice in your shoes to Fix Toenail Fungus and Toxic Liver Backwash ...Overnight (Doctors Stunned) MELT Fat Away wi......
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Craig Sipe
Categories:
consumptive,
health, humor, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
On Theistic Integrity
...Let us begin by explicitly undressing what may have been implicitly held multicultural feelings: 1. For the overwhelming masses of teeming and scheming healthy human adults, and especially......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
consumptive,
culture, freedom, god, health,
Form:
Political Verse
History Lessons
...Victims of Straight White Patriarchal History are usually not hopelessly unenlightened and permanently disabled Ostracized by Self and/or Others from healthy democratic co-redemption Ba......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
consumptive,
culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
How Many Holidays
...How many times have I heard? The family that prays together stays together And, the family that eats together stays together I know from personal Holiday and every day experience, neith......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
consumptive,
celebration, christmas, corruption, family,
Form:
Prose
Love Casts a Shadow
...I quest my love from the depths of silenced shadows, amongst the reclusive dimness… Where I compose my Soliloquy of Solitude as I gravitate to a ghostly grimness… Fortitude I have n......
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Winged Warrior
Categories:
consumptive,
hurt, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Turtle By the Door
...The bears and wolves are few; one threadbare widow mourning, two grays as consumptive as smoke. The large dwindle, their bodies grow more awkward, more at odds. The heavier beasts sway like dr......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
consumptive,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Three Turtle Songs
... Turtle by the Door The bears and wolves are few; one threadbare widow mourning, two grays as consumptive as smoke. The large dwindle, their bodies grow more awkward, more at odds. The heav......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
consumptive,
poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
The Bird Feeder
...Sometimes, not often enough, I stop my morning routine to watch the feeding drama breathe feathered flurries in and out, on, and under, my side-yard bird feeder Outside my kitchen windows ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
consumptive,
bird, community, earth, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Sit Transit Gloria Mundi
...Sit Transit Gloria Mundi Rick Folker Our current consumptive culture Salivates over "Tech" and "Cell" and "Screen" That transmits the lurid, pornographic Apocalyptic scenes. We long for th......
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Rick Folker
Categories:
consumptive,
angst,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Church Perfect Surface
...He feels the best of him slipping away A sip a drip at a time When will the he and him align What is he missing He can't stop thinking in and out of focus drifting as he witnesses his soul thin......
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Richard Lamoureux
Categories:
consumptive,
angst, christian, conflict, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
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