Glory To The Garden
...The utter splendour of garden life
Encompassed by nature, calm and serene
A sanctuary away from all that strife
What a pleasure it has been!
Wondrous sounds competing all around
With eyes clos...
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Categories:
duelling, garden, happiness, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
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“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its ...
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Categories:
duelling, muse,
Form: Narrative
Split Personality - Duelling Proverbs
...Mum said "birds of a feather flock together"
so I searched for a man who liked similar weather
until Dad stressed "opposites attract"
and I tried to determine just what I lacked
"Small packa...
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Categories:
duelling, hilarious, humorous, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The Crow Bar
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"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injec...
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Categories:
duelling, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Displacement
...Displacement.
Slow motion memories;
A conscience pricked, in pictures; develop,
And are delivered to the senses, on
The white wings of the winter wind.
It blows lazy! And sharp; skin...
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Categories:
duelling, fantasy,
Form: Imagism
Blind Man Turns
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"Blind Man Turns"
Rest easy in my lull, Love
Love
is not the gentle goodnight, Love
in the beguiling
silence of Lost Lovers' Woods
It...
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Categories:
duelling, love,
Form: Free verse
Smooth Big Cat
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"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed ...
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Categories:
duelling, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
Rewind Forward
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“Rewind Forward”
Memory mirror
supple sylph yields
and naked
walks through liquid glass
towards your dark eyes
to float in black
legs wrapp...
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Categories:
duelling, desire, for her, for
Form: Romanticism
The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris
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The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris"
Oriental Lily's
Stamen bleeds
blush ochre dust
like icing sugar
duelling tongues
sweet cap...
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Categories:
duelling, art, freedom, imagery, psychological,
Form: Romanticism
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
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"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glis...
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Categories:
duelling, romance,
Form: Romanticism
What Sets Man Apart From Beast
...The mind of man defines his self
Thought separates him from the beast.
For rationale transcends all else
So with reason was man bequeathed?
Nature adjusts its balanced scales
Predators thrive ...
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Categories:
duelling, analogy, angst, environment, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Our World Without Colour - Remastered
...Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight sof...
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Categories:
duelling, allegory, animal, color, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Our World Without Colour
...Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight so...
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Categories:
duelling, allegory, animal, color, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Calling On
...Inspired by the Alphabet Soup Contest which I missed out on:
Calling on my lover
Duelling heart now recover
Emotions filled to brim
Flowing over the rim
Gleefully giddy in thought
Havin...
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Categories:
duelling, emotions, feelings, writing,
Form: Couplet
Beware the Beast
...The mind of man defines his self
Thought separates him from the beast.
For rationale transcends all else
So with reason was man bequeathed?
Nature adjusts its balanced scales
Predators thrive ...
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Categories:
duelling, humanity, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
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