Echoes of a Victorian Christmas
...Men in tailored suits
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped,
crinolined,
elegantly sculpted.
Their tigh...
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Categories:
forfeits, christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative
naming game
...They all died
The lying died
Inside of her mind
I travel
Peeled rays of sunlight
A distant eclipse
The whale had
Executed it’s reasons
Casketing denial
Of flight
Thundering clap
Of freedom...
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Categories:
forfeits, chocolate,
Form: Free verse
Transplant
...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...
Transplant
by Michael R. Burch
You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disea...
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Categories:
forfeits, angel, dark, daughter, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Saunist Shere- Tenuto part 1
...it goes to their level of
professionalism
beyond being physically superior
it goes to the wisdom of ones management
"conflictio Resilutio:grappiious Contendia"
he spoke candidly.
we rank from ...
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Categories:
forfeits, culture, education, film, inspiration,
Form: Bio
Fantastic four
...A genuine hero isn't one that's flawless
Arguably not the one garmented with
Absolute forfeits but one who is purely
Accountable in securing relationships
Amiably without trade of another...
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Categories:
forfeits, 5th grade, conflict, courage,
Form: Alliteration
An Esau
...An Esau lifts the carnal
And mocks the spiritual
Though he possessed the birthright
He pursued the physical
An Esau values his ways
"Satisfy the appetite"
Despise God's promised future
A dan...
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Categories:
forfeits, bible, character, future, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Kadesh
...Spies, scout out the Promised Land.
Let our eyes see what God has planned.
Never mind what He's already done,
Can we trust the powerful One?
When we saw the Anakites there,
The terror was too ...
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Categories:
forfeits, bible, christian, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Back of Dad's Chair
...The back of Dad's chair is black like a void,
its mid discontinuous of solid support.
Cushion coils creak as his weight shifts,
his interest unhinged from light hypnosis.
The scuff of rough wheel...
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Categories:
forfeits, absence, addiction, child, dad,
Form: Free verse
Denial, Lift Your Cross and Follow - Matthew 16: 24-26
...Jesus Christ is God in all His fullness
here He draws His apostles to hear
the importance of what He has to say
for this is what keeps you in top gear
Denial is a word little used today
nobody...
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Categories:
forfeits, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Precipice of the Unknown
...Teetering on the edge of the precipice unknown
The depth of the fatal plunge to an eternal oblivion,
Is of little or no concern to him who suffers in pain
Who cannot control his colors...
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Categories:
forfeits, death, depression, future, life,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Penny
...my finks cant be bought
See i wrote finks instaead of thinks
but this is just thought a
played with a thought that
made the devil
crawl and in fouetus
positiong globes systematically
GPS syste...
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Categories:
forfeits, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
...Journey Journal Page
POETRY
“Poetry is the language of
the soul — where deep emotions
cluster thought and feeling in
a poignant outburst of fond
rapture — and thus, words
sublimate in ...
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Categories:
forfeits, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight's Symphony
...Upon the transition into a wistful soul
A past seeking self forfeits a requisite toll
Feelings are born from moments of pleasure
Memories are lost to space beyond measure
All meandering paths ...
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Categories:
forfeits, dark, death, farewell, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Truncated Sonnet: ''A Sonnet Begets Life''
...A Sonnet begets life.
Joy, her child, leaves her womb,
bliss that transcends the tomb
and dulls the Reaper's scythe!
Ah! Joy belittles strife;
delight, as from bedrooms
(wit...
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Categories:
forfeits, desire, extended metaphor, joy,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Rule of Threes
...Health of a nation
See the old and young station
Your indication
Breeze moves the tree leaves
But turned to gusts the tree heaves
The wise man perceives
Things are a blessing
Until fury op...
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Categories:
forfeits, muse,
Form: Rhyme
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