Verity and Vanity
...Written: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the...
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Categories:
elision, analogy, appreciation, character, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Vanished Smile
...That's a sin for God and all creation.
A stone-like heart best describes you.
Blood sei, Nubia tears, and a brief elision
Extremely wide and bone-white in hue.
The grin you used to ...
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Categories:
elision, analogy, angst, bereavement, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Profusion of Confusion
...'Tis no collusion in the collision
or delusion in the decision
But the effusion of elision
in the intrusion of the incision
Accents the protrusion of provisions
in the suffusion of sup...
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Categories:
elision, confusion, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Perfect Peace
...held contempt was i before the rain,
cascading downward into my reverie-
i lathered in what used to be a dream,
not knowing what i could have had-
with you by my side
you are an eli...
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Categories:
elision, sad love,
Form: Verse
Phil Davenport
...RAF navigator Ron Day and I took of from Banff, Scotland,
I was in the RAAF, an Australian, and we flew in formation:
40 Mosquitos to attack German ships in Norway land,
In a harbour, Porsgrunn, b...
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Categories:
elision, courage, hero, history, political,
Form: Quatrain
Caesura Aquatica
...Voyagers, convene thyselves to return, among us...
Caesura, crown nigh clod, a sylph unwept,
elision thy silhouette, meno thy minuet...
Thine late occurence on thee, wake of cerise sand
Thou be...
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Categories:
elision, adventure, happiness, imagination, mother,
Form: Iambic Pentameter