One Shoe
...Winter has left one empty shoe
upon the doorstep.
Around that footless mouth
tulips grow
despite the muscular winds
and a thin sunshine.
The crisscrossing of the seasons
does not confuse the...
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Categories:
footless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Memories
...Phantom figures at the window,
Shapeless shadows on the wall,
Footless footsteps faintly follow
Faceless voices down the hall.
Are all my memories mere illusions,
Have time and distance made t...
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Categories:
footless, memory,
Form: Verse
Snake
...Snake
You may be poised to celebrate
As shadows whirl around us
I feel you might be premature
As destiny has found us
The children cower in the dark
But hope will flick the light on
The po...
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Categories:
footless, easter, eve, evil, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Stories On the Screen
...I reminisce, I miss
The days we were called
by the stories on the screen.
My sister and I, our story
part of it written in the hall
...
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Categories:
footless, film, missing,
Form: Free verse
Randomly Comes the Love
...boatman on the lonely boat
rowing east to west
with the rising sun to setting down
folk-songs play a Cupid game
in the alone heart
an abode of naughtiness
builds a palace to the far
mounta...
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Categories:
footless, life, love,
Form: Free verse
My Loneliness
...glittering night
at the bud of
new year's root
expands its sight
in multitude
I’m devoured
by solitude
loneliness
showers my
walking path
as footless print
alone, alone
al...
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Categories:
footless, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely Socks Lament
...A Lonely Socks Lament
Unmatched
in loneliness
am I
hidden
in a five drawer
tower
locked away
unable to search
for a mate
shunned
by those in
pairs
I wait
listening
to the dryer’s
tu...
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Categories:
footless, allegory, humor,
Form: Free verse
If You Can'T Comment On My Poetries, Can'T You At Least Deign To Comet On Them
...Scribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no.
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves a...
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Categories:
footless, adventure, africa, allusion, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
She Kept Forgetting To Take the Pill Part 2
...Maybe
Baby
Young cad
Is dad
Leaves her
For Fleur!
Teen mum
So glum
Up duff
Feels rough
Loo quick...
She’s sick
Huge tum
Soon mum
Wide girth
For birth
Can’...
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Categories:
footless, birth, car, teen,
Form: Footle
Ballad of Footless Jeff
...There was a boy
named Jeff had messed
up teeth, and had no feet
he rolled around town
screaming out loud
I want pizza
from pizza king
yes this little boy that
lived in Anderson a bi...
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Categories:
footless, food,
Form: Ballad
Lacrimosa
...He goes by the name of Lacrimosa
He is the plain picture of a man
Those who don’t know him see him as a monster
But you and I know better that he is a broken friend
His smile drips of sorrow
His...
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Categories:
footless, dark, depression, grief, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
I Lost My Way
...I lost my way
In the wrinkles of the road!
Footless the night creeps into my room
It's not that I don't want to sleep
but the emptiness is creeping into myself.
The wind that would begin its...
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Categories:
footless, lost,
Form: Prose Poetry
Man Unkind To Mankind
...In the ancestral call of righteousness
They failed the almighty creator
There in the Forbidden Garden of Eden
Who could tell where the sinful garden is now?
That smal pretty hut where sin began i...
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Categories:
footless, age, universe,
Form: Alliteration
Iraqi Aching
...Iraqi Aching
Arabic Poem By: Saddam Fahd. Al-Asadi*
Translated into English By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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For Iraq I slaughtered the silence in my pen
For Iraq I fen...
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Categories:
footless,
Form: Prose Poetry
Prayer
..."...Dominus orationem meam suscepit."
Burning his little jelly bottom raw,
He blisters in his liquid greenish poop.
He has no means to summon us at all
To drain the acid swamp of split pea soup.
E...
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Categories:
footless, religion,
Form: Ottava rima
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