Words and Birds
...Have you heard what I have heard -
that when your quill is inspired or spurred,
the act of writing, it might be inferred,
as, with watching feathered beasts (not furred),
must never cause you to ...
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Categories:
furred, bird, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Extinction - The Speech of Artemis
...I cannot curse as others can,
I remedy, not hate.
Too well I know that beast in Man
That ever forms their fate.
Didst once we think that reason made
The mortal struggle cease or fade?
So loneso...
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Categories:
furred, animal, dark, death, nature,
Form: Couplet
On Stopping To Sniff A Dandelion
...I believe, I may have missed the boat
The water’s deep, I couldn’t float
Perhaps the marks I set weren’t high
The tide’s in now – I’ll wave bye-bye
I read Thoreau and Frost, I know
Of wilderne...
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Categories:
furred, memory, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Triple Feature
...The Word Nerd Goblin Man
Too many words were inside
The Word Nerd Goblin Man’s brain.
Every time he went for a run outside
words spilled out of his ears onto the lane.
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Categories:
furred, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Waltzing Bear
...Written: November 03, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
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I was just a child,
enraged by my inaptitude to act
I dashed home,
surprised,
my...
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Categories:
furred, analogy, angst, bereavement, dance,
Form: Free verse
Adumbrated Aeration Regarding
...Adumbrated aeration regarding...
crafting reasonable poetic rhyme
nothing to sneeze... at chew
asthma lingua franca –
acts as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious glue
inspiring me to skip to ...
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Categories:
furred, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
furred, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Fantastic Words
...A closer look at a fantastic word
And no, I’m not talking in bafflegab
To not repeat this speak is just absurd
To absquatulate like a fracas herd
Throw a foofaraw over a little jab
A closer lo...
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Categories:
furred, fun, words,
Form: Villanelle
Renascence
...Darkness still needs to be a portion of the sky,
It symbolizes grasping the cosmic matrix.
Alas, it did not rise by a twist. It's the basics,
As morrow never rolls to spell crux truth...
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Categories:
furred, analogy, bereavement, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Town Survives By Fishing Early Light
...My horse's haunches sway,
Saunter up hillocks and down a valley path,
Above a ridge off and on: a village where some people fish,
Phosphorescent flotsam washed ashore.
Green embers breathe as ...
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Categories:
furred, adventure, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Backyard Fuzziness
...Backyard mavens, wise crones
recall generations of groundhogs
that have dwelt in these hedgerows.
In winter
they seed the ground with 'Puffcorn Delites'
bought wholesale from Sam's Club.
The ...
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Categories:
furred, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
furred, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence,
Form: Free verse
On the Hill
...On the hill, a mother
is desperate to nurse babies
who have gone still and silent,
with milk they'll never take
She knows they are not sleeping
but cannot bear to leave them,
so licks the...
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Categories:
furred, animal, bereavement, birth, child,
Form: Imagism
Life's Last Meal
...was saying "good't mornin"
...to the bird-seed eaters...
both feathered and furred
...as...
a local golden eagle
...on its daily soar...
flew by high over the trees
...then...
seed-ea...
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Categories:
furred, adventure, animal, today,
Form: Free verse
Winter Cogitations
...Attack of below zero temperature assailing
Blankets the room beyond blustery
Chills of the arctic, cleaving…
Daring to defy dreariness
Enveloping season of enchanting enigmas
Fueled by praye...
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Categories:
furred, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: ABC
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