Plagued by Memories
...The night stood,
veiled like a nun.
Wherever she looked,
She saw a hooded assassin,
staring at her with eyes like fireballs.
Leaving aside
the unfinished works,
s...
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Categories:
fireballs, angst, fear, memory,
Form: Free verse
Out of Sight
...tell me a color
I'll say
something
juicy
to you
I picked
my favorite fruit
by palate
hues too
bare feet shed
more than dead skin
exposed limbs
transport knowledge
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Categories:
fireballs, dark, dedication, endurance, identity,
Form: Free verse
joys of having Poindexter
...I lead the charge up the hill
My dragon puffed fireballs at the enemy
The other army was screaming and shrieking
They retreated and Poindexter flipped them away with his tail
Scooped them up and ...
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Categories:
fireballs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
BORIS AND SOOSA
...
Soosa plans to go on a cycle ride,
to a distant place, misty and wild
where nature’s beauty could be seen
the fog that could ensnare the eye.
The teen girl was blissfully alone,
rides throu...
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Categories:
fireballs, angel, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form: Free verse
Dead End Street
...
Written: November 08, 2023, For John Lawless Contest
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Quote by Zig Ziglar
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Categories:
fireballs, analogy, angst, bereavement, dream,
Form: Free verse
The Dream
...Flaming rocks fell from the sky scorching the earth & boiling the seas. The fall out of the event was truly massive taking the life of living things as far as eyes could see. Smoke hovered in the sky...
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Categories:
fireballs, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry
Lucky Man
...Started a new diet yesterday
Doc said I can’t keep living this way
I’ve got high blood pressure and cholesterol
He said I’m lucky to be alive at all
Was rambling about my A1C
Diabetic is where...
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Categories:
fireballs, poetry,
Form: Lyric
The Ascension--with Rewrites
...(Author’s note: This poem is a humorous satire on how a modern media mentality would view the story of Christ’s Ascension.)
The Ascension (with Rewrites)
By Mark D. Stucky
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Categories:
fireballs, humor, jesus, miracle, mystery,
Form: Free verse
High Voltage Huitain
...Fireballs of far off feather stars
lucid dreams they touch and tickle;
Diamonds dancing dazzling Mars
mirage of something magical;
It passed me something practical
writing on my soul with know...
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Categories:
fireballs, emotions, magic, stars,
Form: Other
Lake
...In the depths of Mt Rainier fire stirred,
The earth around trembled in dire anger,
As the fiery spirit Elf wandered
In the depths of the spouting volcano
Exuding thick feculent, fusty smells,
An...
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Categories:
fireballs, miracle,
Form: Free verse
End Times
...A slash of light sears my left eye -
end of the world
or just sunshine crashing into a slanted window?
It happens just that quickly
I don't think there will be a time-lapse
or anytime to count t...
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Categories:
fireballs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Lessons of Uvalde
...Don't forget your books with the shiny covers.
Pens filled with glitter and rainbows of hope.
My books used to be wrapped in brown paper bags.
By years end they'd be frayed and covered in kid graf...
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Categories:
fireballs, school,
Form: Free verse
Summer Rain
...summer rain
cotton candy clouds
whispy trails like spun sugar ~
sly mists mask the skies
muggy breathless air
leaves hang limp upon their boughs ~
mute the summer song
heat in mi...
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Categories:
fireballs, rain, storm, summer,
Form: Haiku
Dance of the Spheres
...Dance of the Spheres
As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way
The music of Heaven’s spheres vibrates harmonies -
In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the d...
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Categories:
fireballs, community, dance, stars,
Form: Villanelle
Eggshells
...for some reason
around your fortress
you’ve built
insurmountable blockades
and from their safety
you thrive on lashing out
catapulting showers
of fireballs
and cannonballs
it took a whil...
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Categories:
fireballs, anxiety, character, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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