Winter Solstice and Musings On The Entropy of Love
...Unable to sleep or pray, I stand
by the window looking out—
at moonstruck trees a December storm
has bowed with ice.
White Oaks and Maples concede
beneath the crystalline weight,
th...
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Categories:
forboding, analogy, introspection, love, winter,
Form: Free verse
Self-Like Precision
...Raven on my shoulder, emitting faint smolder,
swirling, formed a vision with self-like precision....
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Categories:
forboding, anxiety, bird, fantasy, spiritual,
Form: Alexandrine
Ode To the Outsider
...Barry Dell
“Ode to the Outsider” Poem
Outsider ousted with high self esteem, confidence protruding makes living most
carefree. Traveling the St...
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Categories:
forboding, adventure,
Form: Free verse
In Silent Screams
...On forboding...
The rocky cliffs
Stark against midnight
Somber and austere.
Darkness sharp cold drifts
In hollow halls
In empty rooms with broken windows!
Deep underground...
In t...
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Categories:
forboding, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Viola
...Stringed strained vibrations
alto hauntings of the heart
playing strumpet along the inner ear
responsive fingering that cries aloud;
intensified bravado rhythms
that reverberate the shoulders...
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Categories:
forboding, allusion,
Form: Personification
Tower
...Standing atop the tower of my solitude,
I look down,
seeing the events of my life unfold,
manifested as many people milling on the street.
I stay in this tower to gain a new perspective,
yet, ...
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Categories:
forboding, analogy, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Skeletal Branches
...Autumn trees stand forboding
With their skeletal branches,
Silhouettes in pale moonlight,
Like witches fingers.
Written 1st October 2020.
For Writing Challenge - Dodoits...
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Categories:
forboding, autumn, moon, tree,
Form: Dodoitsu
Funeral
...The heavy rain was unforgiving with an air of forboding on this grey and miserable November day.
At the cemetery entrance the chapel bell tolled ten times to herald the arrival of the hearse...
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Categories:
forboding, bird, death, funeral, rain,
Form: Verse
Piercing Heavy Clouds
...My skies darken a forboding grey
When shadows overtake my day
A strong breeze carries dark gloom
To give the feeling of a pending doom
Lightning zig zags throughout the sky
Piercing heavy c...
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Categories:
forboding, dark, day, rain, storm,
Form: Couplet
South Winds
...rustling maples
mysterious forboding -
harbingers of wind...
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Categories:
forboding, nature,
Form: Haiku
Strange Dreams
...I dreamed once of a head of gold
that vastly filled the sky,
and there beneath, alone and cold,
the lonely figure I.
I dreamed once of a suffering sheep
for which all help was vain,
which nei...
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Categories:
forboding, angst, dream, symbolism,
Form: Imagism
In a Water Schism of Things Not Finished
...Maybe it's with all signs Astro that their true ology elements precede us in our poor socio-crafted endless envies, that benignly beholds and molds us, encrusting our deep attention to non-nominal di...
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Categories:
forboding, anxiety, inspirational, love, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
The Challenge
...Challenges...
"one who does not
judge but listens".... Have I found that person.?
that speaks volumes in the book of my life these past
few years ...you can't possibly imagine.
The peo...
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Categories:
forboding, age, change, deep, england,
Form: Prose
Liquid From Above
...Looking above seeing these dark clouds
giving a forboding negative look
makes you think something about to come
might even install a brand new brook
Everyday we look for the forecast
to see wh...
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Categories:
forboding, rain, sky, water,
Form: Rhyme
A Love That Was, a Love That Is, a Love That May Be
...These feelings have drawn me to the water's edge
Under the swaying branches of a eucalyptus tree,
Flickers of sun's light stream through the leaves
Dancing gently around my eyes...
The breeze of ...
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Categories:
forboding, love,
Form: Alliteration
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