Love you Thorpey
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Nuggety nudger & nurdler
Thorpey did embody
Epitomise, personify Test Cricket
Someone small standing tall
Reliant defiant giant but
Fragile and flawed
Did he know he was ...
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Categories:
cooed, sports,
Form: Rhyme
By the Way a Rock Pigeon Cooed
...By the way a rock pigeon cooed
Deliberately out of sight
And moved me to rise from bed
With my own jingle in heart
And July's breath stills the pond
In its disarming manner
And robs ...
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Categories:
cooed, bird, july, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Lights that glow darkly
...I have been deceived all this while,
By all the angels cloaked in a dear disguise.
'Follow the way of light, my child, ' they all cooed,
For they knew too well I was never shrewd.
Off I went, p...
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Categories:
cooed, loss, sad,
Form: Lyric
Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o...
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Categories:
cooed, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
Felix Culpa
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When rebellious thoughts screamed
Before the noise of life filled the quiet,
I now recall half-filled moments
Upon edge of spite
and an angry wind:
Unmoved by parental debates
This heart d...
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Categories:
cooed, blessing, pride,
Form: Free verse
Shikata ga nai
...In an old bus, patience thinned by
midnight
As bitterness drifted long, feeling bleak
Wiping hours with restless air in
dark light
Not a robin cooed through skyline's
mystique
Findi...
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Categories:
cooed, change, character,
Form: Sonnet
A Bird's Gift
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Little Mary had a cute bunny pet,
she played with, till another one she met.
When autumn’s crunchy breeze started to blow,
a pigeon made home in her window low.
Soon it became a dea...
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Categories:
cooed, animal, bird, pets,
Form: Rhyme
In Search of Love
...From my window, a dove
Searched for love. Where did she hide,
Dawn crept silently:
I listened to my labyrinth of love.
Purple petals fluttered on the dewy grass,
A silken web was sh...
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Categories:
cooed, lost love,
Form: Free verse
cosmic gong
...heart winked at love
the peace dove cooed
above, within...
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Categories:
cooed, love, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk
My Mother Passing
...Oh, why now? I had prayed for three more years,
Man lived, then we all die, and our resting is decided by a mortal,
Should it be with your father or mother or be by yourself?
I had seen so many ol...
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Categories:
cooed, addiction, allusion, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
lemon-shine
...The bright sunrise made the snow-covered Alp mountain-tips, an hour-away-by-car, glow like they were topped with lemon ice-cream. Was this evidence of magic?
Peter (my bf) and I are low atop the f...
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Categories:
cooed, boyfriend, paris, student, summer,
Form: Free verse
Look Closely
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Written: May 21, 2024, For Edward Ibeh Contest
“If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossibl...
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Categories:
cooed, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Hungry, Then Horny
...Wife was feeling neglected and bored.
Hubby hugged her. Her low spirits soared.
She cooed, “Let’s go to bed.”
When he said, “Well, instead,
would you bring me some food?” she was floo...
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Categories:
cooed, feelings, food, lust,
Form: Limerick
Two Doves: a 55 word story
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A widower once had a spring visitor, a dove with no mate. It roosted in a tree near where the old man often sat. It cooed to him.
One day the man's daughter looked for him, he was gone. She was...
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Categories:
cooed, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Late Winter to Early Spring
...A
Crow cawed
Then a dove
Cooed early while
Still dark from cloudy
Skies on this late winter's
Morn, the only gold was the
Daffodils' blossoms flashing smiles
To ...
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Categories:
cooed, nature, seasons,
Form: Etheree
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