Posaidon's Surfboard
...Upon the waves where the wild winds sing,
A tale unfolds of a vessel and its wing;
Through the tide, it dances, graceful and free,
Harnessing the ocean's heart, a sight to see.
With car...
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Categories:
due north, culture, ocean, sea, storm,
Form: Ode
Midway I
...When all the stars from Heaven fell to Earth,
a light was quelled beneath the mantled dawn.
The aftermath lent anger in rebirth
when apathy was scorched by Nippon brawn.
A swift emergence reckone...
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Categories:
due north, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Eerie Calm Before the Storm
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An eerie calm has been encroaching
as dawn's pale light approaches the realm
of what is usually a normal morning
but no songbirds are softly trilling today
They've all taken shelter from the st...
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Categories:
due north, storm,
Form: Free verse
The Storm and the Trees that know
...If you can find shelter when the firmament rumbles
And drips spears of weighty waters
Keep about you the hope that clear skies might come,
Be glad for the storied house that a stray seed built,
T...
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Categories:
due north, analogy, courage, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Welcome Aboard
...I used to ride waves on the deep blue sea,
A Sailor's life was the life for me.
It was the wildest thing I ever did,
I've been called Salty Dog and even Squid.
On a crusty deck, the hull painte...
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Categories:
due north, memory, sea, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Vagabond Bears
...Of the polar sort, I am a vagabond bear
Find me due north in the cold arctic air
A lone, tusked walrus is my only cohort
I am a vagabond bear, of the polar sort
Of the grizzly kind, I am a vaga...
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Categories:
due north, animal, humanity, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Birthday Birds
...They knew by instinct what I have known for more than 50 years.
They were being informed by their maker that someone very special
resid...
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Categories:
due north, bird, birthday,
Form: Personification
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 83
...The experience of leaving the ground was a sensation that she could never have imagined. Her stomach felt strange and at first she felt light headed, but that subsided in a short while. Then she no...
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Categories:
due north, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
The Line Items
...The Line Items
There is a list on my desk,
Another one is on the refrigerator.
It is all the things that I need to do.
It is not short by any means.
You probably have one too…?
Perhap...
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Categories:
due north, abortion, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Narrative
50 Words For Poe: Metamorphosis
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"50 Words for Poe: Metamorphosis"
Intricate souls,
Complex needs
interconnected
Light energy
binds them
2 hearts
2 minds
Become
1 hea...
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Categories:
due north, death, faith, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Campfire
...Snapping cracking Box implodes on self, turning rapidly into an inferno
Smoke travels into eyes. I change chairs. Down wind was southwest
Now smoke is traveling due north Loud pop. Bright orange f...
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Categories:
due north, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haibun
The Vines Between Us
...Her lips were cherry blossom pink,
The remnants of the red 17 dye that escaped her lollipop as she melted it down to nothing between her teeth.
She knew nothing of the boy watching her three desk...
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Categories:
due north, beauty, devotion, dream, flower,
Form: Free verse
In Dreams That She Shall Wait For Me
...In dreams that she shall wait for me
On misty banks of weathered shoreline,
deplete by ocean’s endless play
Of scattered seas in ageless voyage
and sunsets formed on borrowed bay
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Categories:
due north, dream, good night, love,
Form: Rhyme
Old Benson, Part I
...Harvey grew up in a small Maine town,
due north of Portland, and out of the way,
like most kids he’d go to the school bus
at the beginning of every week day.
And every day that he made that rid...
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Categories:
due north, history, perspective, philosophy, science,
Form: Narrative
The Cage
...I was less than the spark at the start of the flame,
When You fashioned my cage out of Truth's rules and morals.
I was fresh from the morning and sparkling with dew,
When the breath of Your kiss...
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Categories:
due north, god,
Form: I do not know?
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