After Mental Flight
...Pink clouds with feint zigzag veins
craft a stunning desert maid’s
muse in mirror swivel guise
as she pondered in set pose
how welkin palettes loiter
when a tense eerie inkling
sighs “I’m t...
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Categories:
feint, beautiful, beauty, character, environment,
Form: Verse
Behind the taint
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For Joseph's Contest
A Rondelet is a French form consisting of 7 Lines
It has 2 Rhymes and one refrain. 7 lines only
Rhyme Scheme: AbAabbA, where A is the refrain
The refrain is 4 syllables,...
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Categories:
feint, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Reset
...Reset.
Still, holding on to vocals
borne on fresh sheets-
feint and margin carry-all
bookkeeps repeats...
Blue veins run straight across,
underpin where I melt
my heart in cold fear's lo...
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Categories:
feint, change, character, growth, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Petrarch
translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
modernization by Michael R. Burch
If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low?
And if love is, what thin...
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Categories:
feint, death, drink, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
By the Fire
...Waiting for your words.
Searching for similarities.
Sameness, connection.
Feeling it unfold inside me, welcoming it.
Warmed by the heat of your fire.
Trading secrets, laughing.
A ...
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Categories:
feint, love,
Form: Free verse
Mr Ragged 2024
...Mr Ragged 2024
The unsteady slow winter moon,
trudges towards a freezing night;
riding on winds back,of shadows feint,
blowing out the days diminishing light,
It i...
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Categories:
feint, abuse, addiction, death,
Form: Free verse
God Night
...A brightly feathered crooner
daffodils along a hidden creek
the bombs mimicking raindrops
cracking the halo of good dreams.
Assassins are ever commonplace
in critical condition is the human ra...
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Categories:
feint, god, night,
Form: Rhyme
Homelessness
...Trauma,misery and unhappiness
Is a life one lives;
Overcoming obstacles and barriers
Interacting with carriers
Of diseases and affliction
Mental health and addictions
Days of sadness and de...
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Categories:
feint, allusion, humanity,
Form: Alliteration
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
feint, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
What they really want is to play fetch
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I must now write a limerick;
Those dogs lined up is such a trick,
It's just a feint
To make me faint
So they can nick my walking stick!...
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Categories:
feint, humor,
Form: Limerick
And The Band Played On
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Where water searches for soul
It loves the weakened shore
To leave it's purpose so smooth and stark
To feint attack on shapes in the dark
A thin carved edge
Infinite breathing
Pushing a...
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Categories:
feint, beach, imagery, power, romantic,
Form: Free verse
A tribute PROSE in RIME
...A cool Autumn morning we caught the bus,off at eleven without much fuss.One
and half return from Croft to Leigh a birthday treat from Dad to me.Hopped on a tram to Burden park to see Stan Mathews ...
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Categories:
feint, soccer, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Latest Is Greatest and Best
...learned about latest
God is always the greatest
by Him have been blessed
of all He is best
sins to Him confessed
easy to digest
in Him will invest
new member in His nest
saves sinners who are...
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Categories:
feint, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Expedition
...The day is fresh
Long before the sun yawns into the morning
The sound of bells clanging
Ropes whipping the mast into shape
Creaking of the old boats
A feint smell of lobster
Rises to meet me ...
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Categories:
feint, adventure, sea,
Form: Free verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
...I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping...
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Categories:
feint, america, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
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