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Grails Poems - Poems about Grails

Premium MemberAugury

...Augury – 2-20-25  Edward Ibeh – Sponsor; Title Chosen - Augury; Pick a Title No. 49
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Augury

Embers of prophecy rise
In the haunting omens of owls...
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Categories: grails, mystery, myth, riddle, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKundalini Rising

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 The Kundalini Is Rising, now I'm Flying High on Wings Of Wisdom
 Full Power Up On The Chrism,
 Ever-Upward in Fully Blazoned Life
 Fear No Evil, Fear The Regal Like....
 I AM Spirit, I AM Aliv...
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Categories: grails, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberStarlit Memories

...Starlit Memories

“…recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown…”
Samuel Coleridge 

Midnight reveries tickle my memories
When I see bright asterisms ascend
Throu...
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Categories: grails, childhood, dream, magic, stars,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium MemberParallax Truths

...You heed what’s preached, I observe beyond the pale 
We play cat and mouse, searching out our holy grails

I see blackness and stars, with no end in sight 
You discern an inner sanctum, and etern...
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Categories: grails, allusion, life, truth,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUnadorned Conscience

...Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist. 
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows. 
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no tr...
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Categories: grails, allegory, allusion, heart, humanity,
Form: Didactic



Amor Fati

...That you are, 
In the shades of a bulwark 
Twilit by weakness when I demur,
You’re that (!) – Amor fati, 
In the refusal of capriciousness, 
As I create what I create.
I’m your pain, 
And your...
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Categories: grails, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Eulogy To Mrs Aminat Olaboopo

...EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO                                        
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From ‘Asabari’, I stand on the moon
Blowing the flute of ‘Okere’
Telling the tale of your heroic arrival.
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Categories: grails, africa, birth, courage, eulogy,
Form: Epic

Dented Cans

...DENTED CANS

At first pristine in form and colour bright
They glittered in the clear warm air of youth
With dreams and goals attainable in our sight
Then framed in words unstrained by filtered t...
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Categories: grails, dream, life, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberVillanelle: Hoist Not the Flag of Your Hidden Vices

...Villanelle: Hoist not the flag of your hidden vices

Hoist not the flag of your hidden vices
Wonder not why enemies pick on entrails
No foe will salute nor sing your praises

You cannot make...
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Categories: grails, conflict, humorous, philosophy, surreal,
Form: Villanelle

The Proud Aurora

...Let larking bliss on zephyr wings descend
And meadows fill with gleeful mirth and song;
The proud aurora’s sparkle then amend
With daisies spread in an ambrosial throng. 
   The cheerful gods pou...
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Categories: grails, bird, flower, love, mythology,
Form: Rhyme

It's Deeper Than Words, It's Deeper Than Life

...It’s deeper than words, for she arose more glorious -n- prettier than any earthly rose, 4 I lay with inside her pink abode, it’s deeper than life, -n- more intricate than when day meets night, she re...
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Categories: grails, god, life, love, wife,
Form: Free verse

Nab New Grails-Infinitian

...Nab New Grails

Learn from life each deed friends sweet myrrhs
Earn love and trust by less wants
Art of life an awed path
Reach out to the weak
Not now then when?
In rough times
Nab new
Grai...
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Categories: grails, art, friendship, love,
Form: Acrostic

Half My Life, My Wife

...Rare, essential expensive minerals embedded deep down in the core of 3 
dimensional mountains, silver owls, platinum falcons, waterfalls-n-streams, 
poisonous leaves tufa fermented into stream, a t...
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Categories: grails, love, marriage, wife,
Form: Free verse

In Retrospect

...Formed by mist that grasses adore
Reveries young coat the sky
Mixing life with energized core
Kodak of faces streaking by
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I collect vignettes from a rushed earth
Filling cups of grails many by one
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Categories: grails, time,
Form: Quatrain

The Fine Winery

...Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
Mortals in rags toil

Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
Brimful gilded grails

Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
High angels crash d...
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Categories: grails, wine,
Form: Haiku

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