Fireflies and Sea Poppies
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"Fireflies and Sea Poppies"
glow up
a short life
buzzing by
lighting up the
shoreline
caves
they're heading for
silent crowded sanctuary
stick fast like glow ...
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Categories:
fastnesses, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Silent Observer Speaks
...'He rained on me,' the Silent Letter said...
But all I brought to him, were words of Joy!
(But here, he says, "that Rain was of Delight!
Of tender thoughts, for I was once a Boy...)
'He cannot ...
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Categories:
fastnesses, introspection, longing, memory, silence,
Form: Rhyme
From Far-Off Worlds, Now I Am Come For You
...From Far-Off Worlds, now I am come for you,
Across the ages, and across all time…
Behind the Sun, we first did pledge, and I’m…
Impatient as a crocus for the New
Dawn and the coming of Pure Lig...
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Categories:
fastnesses, death, desire, love, marriage,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
If Ever I Had a Country : Xix and Xx
...IF ever I had a country : XIX - XX
XIX
If ever I had a country
And if ever I were the Minister of Industry
I'd put a stop to the production of machines t...
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Categories:
fastnesses, abuse, environment, nature, peace,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Anent Mine Concern For These, My Scribal Children
...My most fervent hope is of the species that,
It wonders most powerfully and unceasingly anent the security of
These notebooks containing these selfsame poetic works;
And I hope also, that asleep...
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Categories:
fastnesses, anxiety, appreciation, art, assonance,
Form: I do not know?
Villanelle: What's Flabbergasting Is the Limitlessnesses
...Villanelle: What's flabbergasting is the limitlessnesses
What's flabbergasting is the limitlessnesses
Time Space Suffering the meanness of everything
The only exception: never deathlessnesses...
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Categories:
fastnesses, birth, death, fate, heaven,
Form: Villanelle
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering Lake
...Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares on his convex-ed back
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Categories:
fastnesses, bird, loneliness, song, spring,
Form: Free verse
Who Would Milk the Tigress
...Who would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless forefinger and thumb
Cows wear forlorn looks
distressed...
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Categories:
fastnesses, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse