The Killick Holds
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The calendar showed January 1899,
there were only a few hours of real daylight
He set out in his poor man's boat, early dawn
Snow and ice did not melt until mid-May
The cold bit his...
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Categories:
east wind, boat, fish, history, life,
Form: Free verse
fine
...a cold fine mist drips
with east wind saturating all....
bed of zinnias pop ...
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Categories:
east wind, flower,
Form: Haiku
Children of Cain inspired other theological ruminations
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"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience.
CHAT GPT says:
Put it th...
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Categories:
east wind, religious,
Form: Didactic
New Years Day
...New Years Day
You say she's the one for you
And who am I to deny that's true?
You live with the promise of her forever
And certainly seem to forget our endeavor.
Now my pen is quiet
with ...
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Categories:
east wind, allegory, angst, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
Perfect Bones
...Here comes the North Wind
Blowing the mountain of bones
Suddenly bones moving like whirlwind
Bone to bone connected its parts
To form a human skeleton standing
Throng of them standing in front o...
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Categories:
east wind, faith, gospel, miracle, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
February End of Winter
...Bit sunshine squinter
At end of winter.
gather light splinter.
Before long they were
Engaged in sweet myrrh.
Watched it disappear
Never hearing fear.
Fall in love Pleasure
Seasons fruits tr...
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Categories:
east wind, character,
Form: Rhyme
MY HIKU COLLECTION
...2007
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the country stile
hedged the wild flower meadow
where I sit awhile
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shadows in the sky-
fluttering across my eye
a brown butterfly
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on the wind,a bell-
muffled from across the squ...
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Categories:
east wind, poetry, word play,
Form: Tristich
AMERICAN CINQUAIN COLLECTION
...How slight
The petal of
A poppy,flowering-
So much like us,beautiful,yet
Fragile
Hurry
Takes its toll as
In our daily stroll,we
From deepest ruts of blind alleys
Quicken
Beauty
free fr...
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Categories:
east wind, people, poetry, poets,
Form: Didactic
Breeze blows
...The North wind blew, ominous, nights now longer,
testing resolve, deepening dread, the fear of
darkness stalking, time to distil impulses …
lighting lamp of love.
The East wind blew, promis...
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Categories:
east wind, spiritual, wind,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Daydream Drumbeat
...I was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon.
I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night is ever coming soon.
I studied sleep patterns too, like viv...
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Categories:
east wind, beauty, day, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
MY FIRST N-A an american cinquain
...Night chills
the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries fine and dry settle on
new graves....
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Categories:
east wind, poetry, word play,
Form: Cinquain
Anaemia
...Anaemia
Who cares for her once glorious dreams
Utopia is the new reality
Dopamine-starved citizens gaze forlornly
As blood feverishly flows out
From her gaping wounds
Siamese twins of hunge...
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Categories:
east wind, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse
Anxious Breeze - First Place Contest Winner
..."Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them~here and there: even the last flower is withered: yet there is a beauty in decay. "
Quote by _Co...
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Categories:
east wind, analogy, appreciation, change, earth,
Form: Rhyme
A Love So Well
...First time they met, his heart was broken
For, her heart was already taken
But she looked at him with real regret
His sweet smile, she couldn't forget
He looked at her like his bliss of rap...
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Categories:
east wind, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Sandpipers Call
...The Sandpipers Call
Sandpipers Call amongst the garbage
along the shore,
Tumbleweeds dance from dusk till dawn
Tumbleweeds roll as time goes by,
And time should stand still for love?
B...
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Categories:
east wind, allegory, angel, bird, death,
Form: Free verse
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