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Flotillas Poems - Poems about Flotillas


A Very English River
...This woodland stream could be a small English river, it dibbles and dabbles, it meanders, and has the air of an old water way, one that never saw the need to rush or gush. The small ripples pac......

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Categories: flotillas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Battle for the Atlantic I
...When anarchy consumes a barren soul, the hatred overwhelms the beating heart. It sickens minds and steals the body whole then rips the cloth of empathy apart. Existence lies between what evil c......

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Categories: flotillas, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Prelude
...Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor. We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light. Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses its body......

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Categories: flotillas, angel, art, assonance, beauty,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Flat Wrong
... The Spanish had armadas; the Americas, flotillas. The Amazon has capybara; the Andes has chinchillas. Kentucky has its sassafras; Madagascar has vanilla. Napoleon lost at Waterloo; F......

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Categories: flotillas, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Prose Poems Ii
...Prose Poems II by Michael R. Burch These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems... briefling by Michael R. Burch manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (q......

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Categories: flotillas, poems, poetry, rose, roses
Form: Prose



Waves
...A thunderstorm passed over, gun turrets flash. gray hulls rumble and roll above tumultuous clouds. Evening commences to weep - an aftermath, a damp emotive capsizing that barely touches upt......

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Categories: flotillas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pointedly Poignant
...Pointedly poignant points portend pointillism. Pontiffs pontificate pointless pointers ponderously. Pompous poems populate Pompei pottery potently. Porous *********** portrays Portuguese porta pot......

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Categories: flotillas, funny, humor, humorous, joy,
Form: Light Verse
Free Verse I
...Lozenge by Michael R. Burch When I was closest to love, it did not seem real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness it might dissolve in my mouth like a lozenge of sugar. When I held......

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Categories: flotillas, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Rejection Slips 2
...Rejection Slips 2 The Shape of Mourning by Michael R. Burch The shape of mourning is an oiled creel shining with unuse, the bolt of cold steel on a locker shielding memory, the mon......

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Categories: flotillas, beauty, death, desire, life,
Form: Free verse
The Evolution of Love
...The Evolution of Love by Michael R. Burch Love among the infinitesimal flotillas of amoebas is a dance of transient appendages, wild sails that gather in warm brine and then express one heads......

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Categories: flotillas, creation, extended metaphor, love,
Form: Verse
A Deafening Sense of Thunder
...A thunderstorm passed over, gun turrets flash. gray hulls rumble and roll above tumultuous clouds. Evening commences to weep - an aftermath, a damp emotive capsizing that barely touches upt......

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Categories: flotillas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Flagrante Delicto
...[starboard port] the ocean—an onyx plate predawn— somnambulant ships preen with a swag of warning lights massive hulls: cargo ships, flotillas, tankers, passenger liners loll; red lights bus......

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Categories: flotillas, love,
Form: Free verse
Regency Dandy
...This Regency Dandy flying across the river, Jumping Jack Flash of kingfisher blue that I was lucky t see, this dainty dandy of English......

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Categories: flotillas, bird,
Form: Free verse
In Passing
...In passing, the waters cleave the landscape heart, Taking on their travel, in their course, parts of the land; In passing, we hikers in that current, Return to the seas and become as the sand. In......

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Categories: flotillas, death, life, love, philosophy,
Form: Verse

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