Along With The Thunder
...
With limp thunder
came silent still-born rain.
Sky broke,
clouds chose
to play apart today,
as the gray clad stand-ins
in blue duffel coats,
and snow white hoods
slunk away, to fade aw...
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Categories:
duffel, storm,
Form: Free verse
Duffel Coats
...He had a duffel coat once,
so did she. They must have looked
well-matched
walking in Regents Park
that Autumn.
In time
the coat shop on Oxford Street
died of old age.
Duffel went out of sty...
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Categories:
duffel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When I Was Ten
...Now in my time echoes
I remember then
my full days in a life
when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow
much greater
at the gates of Eden
and its dormant crater.
We’d climb its he...
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Categories:
duffel, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme
A Fatal Flaw
...Home invaders
Climbed the fence;
Huffed,
Puffed,
And blew the windows in,
Suddenly, they're inside a mansion.
They came prepared
With large duffel bags.
They grabbed all they could -
A famil...
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Categories:
duffel, bird, home, humor, imagery,
Form: Personification
Oliver, a Boy Part 2
...Welcome back my weary friends
I promise you this story ends
But not before your time flies through
A tale with a horse or two...
On streets of cobblestone and gray
Where beggars sleep and orph...
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Categories:
duffel, england,
Form: Epic
Winter Poem
...The cold of the winter
Duffel coats and bobble hats
Red, white and green
Christmas is nigh
The streets of London
Paved with precious grey
Up in a smoke
A concrete jungle of sorts
Robins,...
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Categories:
duffel, birth, christmas, winter,
Form: Free verse
A Birthday Letter
..._______
Well now this is sad and tragic
For both of us to hear
You and I at cross purposes
Ever our fate, my Dear
I just found your correspondence
Last letter that you sent
It was, I t...
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Categories:
duffel, lost love, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Dark Ones Are Coming
...Out of the gloom the dark ones rise
Into our future we go,
We're just ourselves, don't you dare judge us
And we will be sure at sun rise
How we discovered the glow
Pride's on the shelf, have you...
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Categories:
duffel, allusion, anxiety, corruption, drug,
Form: Free verse
Disunited We Freeze
...What is the purpose of your visit young man?
I heard that you have the best marmalade in the world
Well we do import oranges but you look a bit foreign to us
I am a seasoned voyage...
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Categories:
duffel, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Geno's Roaches
...On youth's restless green puff
I rode a greyhound bus southbound.
Everything I owned stuffed into one duffel bag.
Forty eight hours on highway x.
It was getting dark so I settled for the first ...
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Categories:
duffel, adventure, travel, youth,
Form: Free verse
Lili Marlene
...Lili Marlene
In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And fre...
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Categories:
duffel, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Verse
Turning Up Her Imagination
...keep the music sorrowfully low,
so big daddy doesn’t hear.
the shadowy figures, surrender
and whisper in your ear.
the psychedelic colors flow
like the sea foam beat.
Angie, your c...
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Categories:
duffel, dark,
Form: Rhyme
A Pound of Flesh
...A man of unquestioned probity in his community, stumbles upon
A hidden duffel bag in the woods while camping with his family
He pulls it out of the dirt and zips it open. The duffel bag
Is stuffe...
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Categories:
duffel, corruption, dark, imagery, money,
Form: Haibun
Ballad For a Homeless Woman
...Each day, she wallows in unspeakable despair
Her hunger is unslakable
There's misery in her downcast eyes
Poor woman, a have-not i...
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Categories:
duffel, girl, humanity, imagery, poverty,
Form: Tristich
Moving Wont Matter
...
Moving Won’t Matter
Written: by Tom Wright
3/3/2018
A wise man once told me “moving won’t matter”,
Your troubles will forever hitch a ride with you.
Trouble’s, are like seed, that wi...
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Categories:
duffel, life, moving on,
Form: Lyric
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