A High Fivefold Dive
...Count your fingers and toes!
It's five that drives betides!
For our minds can't juggle
More than five at once.
Can't grip, grasp sense - six.
How we sense and perceive,
Also comes in five fla...
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Categories:
fivefold, feelings, senses,
Form: Free verse
FLAME OF ASCENSION
...FLAME OF ASCENSION
No-one can escape Flame of Ascension
a glance, a glimmer, a gestalted shadow
ghosts or gestures guarded Hearts to
genteel progress on a path
It night...
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Categories:
fivefold, 12th grade, allegory, extended
Form: Alliteration
Confession Kyrielle For Hearers
...If I have uttered blasphemy
That you’re the root of the dark tree
Light and darkness are twins of might
Forgive my sins! Have mercy, Light!
If I blasphemed the shining Son
That death awaits ...
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Categories:
fivefold, forgiveness, light, prayer, religious,
Form: Kyrielle
Yours Truly Embarks On Wild Goose Chase After Elusive Pot of Gold
...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
two alternate titles:
1. Gander seeking goose that laid the golden egg
2. Incorrigible lottery dreamer
linkedin with previous ...
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Categories:
fivefold, adventure, animal, bird, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Before
...All those movie characters
Crying in the shower
Definitely staged
But guess not
Short fits of panic
Fizzing in the steam
My lifelike dreams
Scare me
Waking up
Between dreams
To realize
You...
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Categories:
fivefold, anxiety, fear, feelings, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Frantically Fruitful Freshly Free
...Fruitful faeries flying freshly frightenly faraway
Flashing flea-bitten furry fireflies fantasy fey,
Faux flash-dancing flowery figs flowing flippantly free,
Ferocious fierce foursome fruit-flies ...
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Categories:
fivefold, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Mountain Meditation
...I am walking in silence,
listen to water and wind,
notice
the frost on the leaves in the shade,
the fivefold symmetry of the columbines,
the pica scurrying across the scree.
My feet follow
t...
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Categories:
fivefold, mountains, nature, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 7 For Debbie's Crown of Sonnets
...I must build a shelter, to fight off the cold.
A rugged fortress lest poachers return –
My bloody blazer, now, filthy fivefold!
I am shivering cold; fire won’t burn.
I stealthily creep...
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Categories:
fivefold, adventure, nature,
Form: Sonnet