The Little Cottage
...She’s a pretty little cottage with a pretty picket fence
She snuggles in the forest where the trees grow tall and dense
A gravelled path runs by her so the mailman can deliver
But nothing gets del...
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Categories:
gravelled, horror,
Form: Rhyme
It Is All About You
...Mother nature cannot quite replicate
The way Your mind perceives the universe,
The beauty's in Your eyes that shapes Your fate -
Precious, though far from perfect, and all Yours.
Well grave...
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Categories:
gravelled, character, encouraging, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
...
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is...
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Categories:
gravelled, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form: Free verse
With All My Being
...Before the Frost,
the world was ours for the taking
Love embraced us,
and we dared dreaming Greater
than any form could hold.
Foolishly, it may seem,
for the ice tide had yet to flood the ...
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Categories:
gravelled, loss,
Form: Free verse
Wash Away
...I scrub and scrub,
trying to erase stains gravelled upon my face.
Age has defined its mark,
solidified a presence in folds and furrows
raked over a once-smooth fabric now heralding me as old.
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Categories:
gravelled, age, change, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Hospital Asile
...The Hospital Asile
Like the highway as long it goes
Like the lover's longing
Like the winter's silence
Like prisoned midnight and falling dawn
Like the voyages made by Christopher
Tube ...
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Categories:
gravelled, 12th grade, deep, emotions,
Form: Epigram
Drivel
...we balanced along
The embankments edge,
And past the Dead Dog Tree.
The view from the eyes that
Flew above aerials hum
Left us down in the gravelled
Crawl. Scratch and tap among
The ash hea...
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Categories:
gravelled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Just a Sonnet Vii
...Pain
A stand under an acidic rain,
At rest you shall melt
Change in position - continue in motion but memorise the belt
Be exothermic constantly release the heat inside
Forces of the Earth actin...
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Categories:
gravelled, anxiety, dark, deep, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Whiskey and Philosophy
...One tall and gaunt with hooded eyes
The other bearded, bent, time-worn and wise
They relished unfurling their intellectual sails
To seek secrets of wisdom on ancient gales
Two wizened old philo...
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Categories:
gravelled, dedication, fun, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Mother 27 August 2016
...Just listen to the dust beneath your feet;
Its gentle voice whispers through the spring grass
Even its warming breath makes you feel complete
But its chill touch, still a sad remembrance…
Do y...
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Categories:
gravelled, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
Benches By a Gravelled Road
...I tread lightly on this gravelled road
And on the horizon I see
Lights, skylines to die for
Tantalized by beauty false
For distance rests between the door
And me.
And friends and brothers,...
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Categories:
gravelled, day, future, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Way Down South
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Way Down South
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: June/2014
Growing up
way
down south
in
Florida -
was like
a
fiesta -
We would
go to
the
b...
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Categories:
gravelled, childhood,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Verdict
.... NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his legs in 'Nam.
He wakes at night in sweat and fright, then drinks another dram.
He doesn't know quite where to go, so see...
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Categories:
gravelled, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Never Land Part 3
...Now, Railroad Bob has lost his job, he’s got no place for working,
His wife, she cries with desperate eyes, their baby’s head’s a’ jerking.
The union man don’t give a damn, Big Brother lies a’ ...
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Categories:
gravelled, fantasy, society,
Form: Rhyme
A Pregnant Lass
...A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the curse of worlds perverse by shooting shots of dope,
and st...
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Categories:
gravelled, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
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