Shadows of the Valley
...O' moment
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets,
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~
in swollen skulls of selfless swan-orchids,...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, death, deep, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
For Shining So Bright, You Burn Out and Die
...For shining so bright, you burn out and die;
for soaring too close to the sun, you fall
to the hard earth below and crash: “Too high,”
judge the gods; so, as lesson to us all,
you're ...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, destiny, fate, god, history,
Form: Sonnet
Deprived Of Your Love - POTD
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I can’t rid of the bags under my eyes
The crowfeet despise, all were lies,
Conjured was an illusion of you
Throughout my groping confusion
evasive, flimsy
A-m-o-r-p-h-i-c, innuendos
I ...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Eagle-Eye Girl
...You marrow-deep in the bone-dry field,
sprawled like a wishbone snapped wrong-
the ground drinks your weight,
but won't swallow you whole.
wind combs its fingers through the wheat,
a mother's ...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, allusion, anger, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Vaporizing Whispers
...I'm torn in poetry ~
like a fractured syllable
scattered across
altars of glistening gold,
mirroring the maskless faces
of those, who once
sold their sanctity for sins.
Perhaps, the...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, deep, destiny, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Flamboyant Swashes
...Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson,
could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand
could impress such lettering upon my cheek.
so I
severed the crescent-angel of my imagination,
dashed my dreamy curs...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, 4th grade, angst, school,
Form: Free verse
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks
...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe
My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but ...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Report
...The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light,
Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night.
It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen,
and then blasts into the iris of my eye, half...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, work,
Form: Free verse
Buzzard Gets His Lunch
...teeny tiny field mouse did not have a chance there
eagle-eyed red headed buzzard spotted him from the air
swooped down, then took mouse up to fifteen thousand feet
making him into a squirming wigg...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Oga Lastma
...Just like the vulture watches its prey
From atop the roof top
Scanning every moving rodent
And rotten s by the gutter,
He watches eagle-eyed,
Every car on the traffic lane.
He watches with keen...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, community, corruption, life,
Form: Verse
Autumn Hope
...They stand erect on the hill side listening to a jubilant ceremony saturated in the wind and the lake side spilling waves of hope over amplified sound while the residue of life scampers all over the ...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Kiss the Leopards
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"Kiss the Leopards"
Kiss the leopards
before dying
confiscate their spots
for memories
ever changing
to place as stars
stamped across a sky
of evergreen
where h...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, muse,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Tell Me
...I cut my hair and dyed it this morning.
On the way out of the bathroom I snipped another piece off.
My eagle-eyed-first-and-last-husband said “Don’t tell me you cut your hair with my kitchen shears...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, marriage,
Form: Light Verse
The Eagle
...There is an eagle flying
above a pure blue lake,
white head with a brown body,
and long feathers, proud and straight.
On its feet are long talons,
finest yellow you can find,
they’ll strike lik...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, america, bird, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Experiment In Eloquent Exceptions
...Exceptions especially encouraged--
Every encounter emerges,
Eventually enveloping everyone
Eagle-eyed; ecstatic, energetic
Early earthlings enjoyed e...
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Categories:
eagle eyed, poetry, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Alliteration
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