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Flinty Poems - Poems about Flinty

The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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Categories: flinty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Old Aqueduct
...It juts out by the river road, traffic passes it each morn, what’s left of the old aqueduct, something stately, yet still forlorn. The rock, with no mortar, was set so fine it would make Incas p......

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Categories: flinty, appreciation, history, imagery, in
Form: Rhyme



Fraud
...I’ve long forged flinty chains, Stamped out and branded, my restraints, Given voice to contented folly Then pierced my heart with demon holly. To assess blame with shame, Spilling stain upo......

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Categories: flinty, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
stones
...stones by michael r. burch i. far below me lies a village with its houses hewn from stone and though Everyman who lives there bravely claims he’s not alone, i can tell him, yes u are! for......

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Categories: flinty, fire, heart, house, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saints and Sinners
... Saints and Sinners The smile is broad But the heart is bile an outstretched hand is birthed from a saintly pouch But alas, such as richly coated but with a shortened desire A frail......

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Categories: flinty, care, deep, motivation,
Form: Narrative



Dragon
... Brimstone throats burned, before bursting into combustible myths. Dragons were effigies, deeply scorched into hearts. Forever became extinct, it became, the lick of a decaying fire. Smoke b......

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Categories: flinty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sipping Coffee
...A sip of the elixir that invigorates the soul. The euphoria that it gives calms the nerves. A fuel of one's enthusiasm to face a new day. Waker of one's slumbering blood. Like a burning sunri......

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Categories: flinty, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mine of Wisdom
...“There is a mine for silver     and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth,     and copper is smelted from ore.   M......

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Categories: flinty, age, beauty, bible, birth,
Form: Pastoral
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
...Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside whooping out that primal binaural beat of your drum ma mind haphazardly ricocheting axon to neuron induci......

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Categories: flinty, absence, allah, angel, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ominous Riddance
...My shadowy quondam radiated a crimson hue was alive and moving now it is a ghost emotionless colorless and lethargic a heart rimmed with marigolds the sharp color of bloody mul......

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Categories: flinty, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Forbidden Tear In the Dark
...DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE EMOTIONAL ISSUES I was born in a land far, far away called... home. Not yet still-born. A place of iced mountain mazes, that were once warm, like an oasis of blessings,......

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Categories: flinty, dark,
Form: Free verse
Half Butt
...We stagger on the slopes heading home We had been bar friends and home could be anywhere in between As long as little comfort settled in, home we were This time, in the crack of dawn, Rudely woke......

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Categories: flinty, animal, appreciation, community, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Break-Up
...The light in my life has slowly sputtered out What began as a flinty spark of infatuation, Flounders in ever-growing feelings of doubt. First I thought about nothing but the sensations......

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Categories: flinty, feelings, girlfriend, loss, love
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member Unhappiness's Root
...Those who would aim to prevent one another without incredulity. A mighty civilization afflicted by filth and plagued by calamity. A mystical state of unhappiness that typically lasts......

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Categories: flinty, analogy, anxiety, change, character,
Form: Monorhyme
In These Parts
...the edge of town arrives quickly you hang an inscrutable left only to discover one beat-up clapperboard hulk hanging over tall corn as if time and land-wrecked it or you drive to the end of a......

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Categories: flinty, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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