In the quiet aurora, where no whisper builds awakening
...In the quiet aurora, where no whisper builds awakening,
No expecting arm to scatter the veil of nights that naturally flee.
Is it the embrace of the ether or the mystery of the wasteland being sift...
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Categories:
enchain, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Quagmire
...I walked the shape of a square
Inside of a circle.
I brought shrimp to a lobster fest.
This morning I woke up
With someone else's nose.
My niece is stuck in an elevator
With no shoes or sox.
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Categories:
enchain, life,
Form: Free verse
Tumultuous Troth
...You entered my home, as a new bride, snow-white embellished!
I was in my bride-groom-dress, looked royal and unblemished!
All so, due to crude cultures, where marriage is a system,
Where prestige ...
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Categories:
enchain, conflict, life, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
All the Words These You Don'T Say
...All the words these you don't say
All the words these I keep
Make me pay if I don't pay
Punish me make me weep.
There is nothing just sorrow
I can not seize the pain
And my heart's within horro...
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Categories:
enchain, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Lyric
Let Not Thy Soul Wander
...Let not thy soul wander through the dark of night.
A wandering soul finds no rest from the mundane.
Go forth, instead, firmly fixed on Heaven’s light.
Clothe thyself in marvelous spiritual delig...
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Categories:
enchain, encouraging, life, religion,
Form: Villanelle
Parable of Wretched Malcontent
...Not content with just penurious loaves
Wretched pauper for richer diet strove
Seeking treasure from a wealthier trove
Delicate crumbs from hearty stoves;
Pungent fruit from well-stocked groves
Poach...
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Categories:
enchain, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Adolescent Path
...Faulty compass of drifting swain
Freelancing on arid, desert plain
Passion fires mind of careening train
Burning loins long each satin sheath to stain
Sculpted dunes seductive beauty do feign
Smooth,...
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Categories:
enchain, childhood, confusion, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Forsaken Soul Serenaded
...Quintain of: sorrow, despair, agony, misery, lament scoring
pain
Dolesome drum o'er jaded psyche taps a dark, palling
refrain
Hamstrung harp bridled soul with dissonant chords
enchain
Shrill...
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Categories:
enchain, depression
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The Choir of Poets
...The Soul art in poems is the wordsmiths
With sun or lamp, in light or dark awake
The chore of a doom word master locksmith
Is to capture, enchain all lone heartache
Conjure through words and so...
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Categories:
enchain, on writing and words
Form: Couplet