Famine - For Real
...The sinking sun is now undone,
the sky is fading red
and shadows prowl neath cloak and cowl
for midnight lies ahead.
Beyond the heap, the honchos ...
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Categories:
cowl, children, war,
Form: Rhyme
red-eyed in underland
...a blood-letting sun
sets as slow as an amber tear
in a shot glass
dotty is lost in oz
ruby slippers
run on a treadmill
of long summer evenings
avocados turn brown
drowned by a late light
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Categories:
cowl, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Closer To The Heart
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Felicity balms in a vapor of gold,
where the dawn silverly unfolds,
as flagged standard- bearer showing,
pregnancy of colors bold, of heavenly hue.
Like dew on petals of
hope- retu...
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Categories:
cowl, art, color, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Rangitoto School Daze
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In my youth's frolic at King Lear and Pi
all my daze was a Shakespearean tale.
Not algebra, not prose did edify
yet test and limits we pass lest we fail.
To learn and open closed minds ...
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Categories:
cowl, school, youth,
Form: Sonnet
The Romantic View
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Honeysuckle breathes in the shallow wind,
Life's lapel, with a side of ground scouting gopher.
Great rusted machines peak the interest
of the flower children who blossom
in t...
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Categories:
cowl, angel,
Form: Free verse
Eidolon
...As the dread spirit’s cowl slid back, a stench so foul
it burned was released, the greeting of the deceased....
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Categories:
cowl, death, horror, spiritual,
Form: Alexandrine
Auction On a Windy Hill
...Beneath billowing sack cloth tent
An auctioneer jibber-jabbers his words.
Below his red mahogany dais
Sit Fifty Amish American women and girls.
Black-bonnet-ed, bidder-number in hand,
they chi...
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Categories:
cowl, age, america, appreciation, bible,
Form: Narrative
Astral Visitations
...Often, after a day of walking
in and out of my mind,
I will put on a nightcap,
it's not a substantial cap like a bobble hat
it's more a cowl, a hood, a cloud-basket.
Beneath this dark covering...
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Categories:
cowl, allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Only Star For Me
...When evening came she ran out alone
Shedding her skin and matters within
As the moon shone overhead
The shadowed trees filling with dread!
Out of home and out of time
She ran alone till she r...
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Categories:
cowl, extended metaphor, star,
Form: Free verse
Demons Roam Free
...Descending on this night, a foul
darkness falls like the Reaper's cowl.
And shadows conceal the undead,
instilling the living with dread.
On Halloween, demons roam free,
while ghosts g...
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Categories:
cowl, anxiety, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Bone Freeze
...Bent and bundled
in the cold woods. Hot breath
rolling out white ghosts.
Among the tall and grey boned -
these shadow-less trees
freeze framed
under a grey cowl sky.
Hungry woods are these...
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Categories:
cowl, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Log Cabin By the Railway Track
...Hilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthus...
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Categories:
cowl, adventure, change, cool, creation,
Form: Prose
Pleasant Hearth
...Borassus Flallifer
dog leg
cowl
cladding
fascia
gullwing door
kammback
visual design
industrail design
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Categories:
cowl, america, business, celebrity, encouraging,
Form: Carpe Diem
Death's Cowl
...death's cowl shadows the soul's release
while rising to meet its maker
as all mortal ties to life cease
birth is counterbalanced by death,
for we must experience both
life's first bre...
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Categories:
cowl, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Reserata Carcerem Lxi
...*Reserata Carcerem LXI*
Yore lived a sage b' bounty brook pining;
dainty daffodils, his keen kins.
Oft would tumbling tide whisper 'ts tune
'n' sewn sage bewitched, ajar would croon.
ñ longe...
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Categories:
cowl, myth,
Form: Sonnet
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