Leave to Live
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When home becomes a ring
And rivalry serves as supper
With the winner becoming lord
By a blow below the belt
Leave to live
When the bed becomes a field
Hosting rival players
And a goal ...
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Categories:
foments, abuse, grief, sad love,
Form: Free verse
From malady comes remedy
...From where so a fault comes to call,
There from hint comes how to forestall:
Boils and blisters that burn,
Back by hot foments turn,
From ailment does its cure unroll.
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Categories:
foments, pain,
Form: Quintain (English)
After the Floods
...After the floods have washed away life
hopes and dreams gone with each wave
sitting now by a once-small creek, rife
with catfish we never thought to save
which, though river, now also a grave
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Categories:
foments, anxiety, future, river,
Form: Quintain (English)
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...
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Categories:
foments, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fomented
...In field of emotions, a fire-storm has grown,
Seeds of rebellion aflame and wind-borne are sown.
Creating chaotic scenes, burned by spirit's flame,
Fomented fervor, a revolutionary game.
Foment...
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Categories:
foments, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories:
foments, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme
A Peaceful Christmas Eve
...I shall enjoy the quiet of this Christmas Eve
Reminiscing about Christmases past,
Thinking about a lost love that will cleave
The heart, but memories do last and last.
Remembering t...
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Categories:
foments, christmas, eve, peace, solitude,
Form: Quatrain
On Diversity and Divisiveness
...Here appears diversity and divisiveness --
Similar words with different meanings,
I must not allow them to come between
Those folks who exhibit different leanings.
Diversity is a go...
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Categories:
foments, feelings, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
A Quiet Christmas Eve
...I shall enjoy the quiet of this Christmas Eve
Reminiscing about Christmases past,
Thinking about a lost love that will cleave
The heart, but memories do last and last.
Remembering t...
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Categories:
foments, christmas, eve, memory, peace,
Form: Quatern
Tempest Toll
...Stormy sea churns with frightening fury
Seamen shouting about a mangled mizzenmast
Cragged cliffs are awaiting ahead
Eerie ghost gray sky defines haranguing hope
Fear foments in dire disa...
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Categories:
foments, sea, storm,
Form: Verse
Son To Mother
...Since the day I was conceived, her delicate hands have held me.
Since the day I was created, her hands floated my first endeavor.
At the point when the tears started to rain, her h...
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Categories:
foments, 12th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Nightbound Poetess Ponders
...I love, love to write poetry, period!
I can find tons of inspiration, myriads!
A Muse? I have none, and no dappled unicorn either.
Poets might declare, oh my, she has a fever?
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Categories:
foments, creation, inspiration, joy, poetess,
Form: Couplet
Trump's Lost Grasp
...So desperate for attention
He foments vote-count dissension
Every day a new twist or turn
Nero fiddles, while Rome burns...
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Categories:
foments, leaving, sad,
Form: Clerihew
The Eagle Survives
...In this tumultuous political climate
I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete
They do not speak to me or my families’ needs
Neither do they consider our suffering
Day after day immigrants...
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Categories:
foments, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Morbid Fascination Mine As Covid-19 Pandemic
...Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic...
foments rampant monopoly on bedlam
Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible
civil war scale not seen since Vietnam),
whereby microorga...
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Categories:
foments, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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