Swiftly the Miles Fly By
...Traveling along country roads for many miles. Early morn's sun blinding my eyes. Outside chill blocked by the internal warmth of the truck and swiftly the miles fly by my eyes.
azaleas...
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Categories:
greybeard, day,
Form: Haibun
Anomalous Poetic Contrivance Evokes
...Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum
(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming,
née devolving i...
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Categories:
greybeard, 12th grade, adventure, character,
Form: Free verse
Evangeline
...Buttercup as an anemone, I see my bonbon
In the midst of a wharve spin,
Graciously thin languette,
Ecclesiastic, a true coquette,
Offered for a handful of sequin
On the 1000-thread linen, re...
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Categories:
greybeard, imagery, imagination, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Mister Greybeard
...Have had this beard since nineteen-sixty-two
Shaved it off once, freaked me out, others too
The underneath face
Sure left a bad taste
So now I'm known as Mr. Greybeard to youse...
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Categories:
greybeard, identity,
Form: Limerick
The Magicians Flute
...The magicians flute
The magicians flute
the stage is set
high up above Homeric gods
sit amongst the clouds
like Blake’s image
of a greybeard elder
holding a compass open
and looking ...
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Categories:
greybeard, allegory, analogy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Dragon-Slayer
...We fought as one,
the blood it run,
All around our feet ,
Our bronze age swords ,
Were not ignored ,
We sliced and diced so sweet,
The dragon came again,
again,
it’s Stinking breath r...
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Categories:
greybeard, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Probing the Psyche
...Inside my heart a dark spirit dwells.
I have been through tribulation and hell.
It is over and the judgment is in.
I can still taste the cutting tang of gin.
My meandering spirit has been shut do...
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Categories:
greybeard, depression, introspection, philosophy, me,
Form: Rhyme