The Lunar Vein and Sunken Emeralds
...The cragged moon, a curdled, midnight bloom,
Where veins of frost, dissect a shadowed room.
A galaxy of mold, on lunar stone,
A whispered legend, soft and darkly known.
It weeps a brine, a sharp,...
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Categories:
cragged, allusion, art, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of Shadows and Storms
...Without a shadow's kiss
How blooms a hidden rose?
Without a storm's embrace
How does an oak repose?
In Twilight's waltz, secrets unroll
the mystery it bestows.
Yet i...
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Categories:
cragged, blessing, conflict, emotions, garden,
Form: Rhyme
A Daunting Mountain Slavery Raised
...A Daunting Mountain Slavery Raised
An injured knee suffers in times of rain.
Seasons of counting costs raises mountains of debt.
Yet... faith can move a mountain,
At the expens...
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Categories:
cragged, africa, america,
Form: Rhyme
Tempest Toll
...Stormy sea churns with frightening fury
Seamen shouting about a mangled mizzenmast
Cragged cliffs are awaiting ahead
Eerie ghost gray sky defines haranguing hope
Fear foments in dire disa...
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Categories:
cragged, sea, storm,
Form: Verse
The Eagle's Realm
...High above the sun-bleached shore
Between blue sea and blue sky
Lonely, silent world unreached
Home of those who soar
The tranquil skies.
Whose wings spread and shadow
Suspended on a weaving cu...
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Categories:
cragged, bird, flying, nature, sky,
Form: Free verse
Dragons
...Mystic sounds move slowly against the face of the cragged purple mountains. Towers of lost forgotten cities peek seductively through canopies of age old trees. Grey mists hide millennia of secrets...
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Categories:
cragged, fantasy,
Form: Haibun
Cobalt Cragged Peaks
...Cobalt cragged peaks amidst clouds
Cathedrals they are, proud so tall
Years of erosion now shout loud
My eyes now view in total thrall
Their reflections upon natures pure
Sharing many marvels from h...
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Categories:
cragged, nature, places,
Form: Verse
Icicles
...Look at the Icicle.
It forms-
An ugly mass drooping from a cragged rock, the water
hardening before it has sufficient time to
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I've heard them called things of beauty by others, a...
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Categories:
cragged, brother
Form: Free verse
When Christy Gets Misty
...When Christy cries,
the birds stop chirping,
When tears flow from her eyes,
the rain stops, for it she is usurping
The very power of nature...
With her deep, deep emotion,
More powerful than th...
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Categories:
cragged, allegory, angst, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse
Wandering Souls
...As we meander through the lifeless days
Escaping true bliss and the heated blaze.
Aimlessly searching for a better goal
We traverse this world as wandering souls.
Most times days are dark as a ...
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Categories:
cragged, death, loss, time,
Form: Quatrain