Griffin Poems

PATTY GRIFFIN

As you paint your songs with colours divine
And words you so assiduously mined 
You leave me standing breathlessly behind
Your visceral emotion hypnotically opined.

Mesmerising destructive bewitching my soul 
Wreckingly angelic your voice takes its toll
And leaves me in wonder at feelings you extoll 
And tears into pieces the form that once was whole 

Just wrap me
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Categories: griffin, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberMy Griffin

Dear Griffin,
 I clearly remember the first time we met. Jim had brought you at all of
four months of age to my families summer reunion. You were shy with
those striking bi-eyes and those massive white paws accentuated by
your thick brindle coating. Jim had purchased you from a local pet store,
not long after you had been
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Categories: griffin, animal, dog,
Form: Elegy


Premium MemberEvan, Griffin and Max

A daddo's desire
memories of your childhoods
my gleam of fatherhood
I "Prophet" your lives alone
Our times Together
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Categories: griffin, appreciation, family, mentor, perspective,
Form: Tanka

Owed To Shannon Griffin

Owed to Shannon Griffin;
Ex sister in-law
But only by our name,
Also stolen by you,
Everthing i will say,
I can prove its true,
You thought that you were owed,
You thought you were due,
You thought what belonged to us, 
Should all belong to you,
You and steve must think alike, 
As Most Narcissist will do,
You conned and cheated us,
You led us
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Categories: griffin, betrayal, corruption, integrity, judgement,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberMeeting the Skeletal Griffin

The whisper went through the warriors like lighting of the night
Most knew rumors of the beast, but had not had him in their sight
The valiant gathered and headed into the woods, ready to be brave
More actually turned their blade and hid shaking in an everglade.

Is it the skeletal griffin? Someone asked me. As if I
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Categories: griffin, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme


Griffin

Not a mythical creature,
or the patriarch of a lewd, cartoon family,
you are my roommate.
Well, one of them,
and you have been for two years now. 

Superhero posters make your room your own.
Perhaps you’re concealing a secret identity
when you refuse to hang out with us;
 on late night drives,
lunch or dinner,
all we do is make awkward small
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Categories: griffin, conflict, friendship, history, home,
Form: Free verse

Magical :: a La Bartholomew Griffin

Tell me, why did you smile?
What you meant by that smile?
Is there any message behind your smile?
Did I behave madly to make you smile?
Or did I utter wrong words for that smile?
There must be a reason for your smile.
I couldn't understand the cause of smile.
Did you read what's in my mind and so you smile?
Could
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Categories: griffin, smile,
Form: Verse

A Life Worth Fighting For Tribute To Dr Angela Farr Griffin

We've all arrived at the point of our 
homecoming and have come to realize
That life can be a stumbling block or
a stepping stone towards the heavenly prize
And our departure our homegoing 
will surely come one day
Just make sure you fought the good fight
as you journeyed on your way

Yes life is a struggle, a tug of
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Categories: griffin, dedication,
Form: Elegy

A La Bartholomew Griffin Poetry - Onomatopoeia

ONOMATOPOEIA
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all live onomatopoeia of the night
howling, mewing, twit twooing, screeching, onomatopoeia
all live onomatopoeia of war
banging, booming, rat tat tat tating, screaming, onomatopoeia
all live onomatopoeia of woodland
tapping, flapping, singing, rustling, cawing, onomatopoeia
all live onomatopoeia of farmland
bleating, mooing, barking, honking, nighing, onomatopoeia
all live onomatopoeia of love making
sighing, sighing, sighing, sighing, Y E S, onomatopoeia!

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Categories: griffin, onomatopoeia,
Form: I do not know?

Prayer For Lgbtd Community and Kathy Griffin

Oh Lord Jesus Christ,
 May we love with a holy love that distinguishes us as your ambassadors, servants and children of the one true God who gave His blood for us. Only by abiding in You can we do this daunting feat and glorify the Godhead...Prayer for peace in downtown streets of Waterbury, Ct. Father
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Categories: griffin, allah, america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Narrative

Dear Kathy Griffin

Dear Kathy Griffin,
I love you I do
But you're the only one
That did this to you

You can hem and you can haw
Place blame on them all
But your foot in your mouth
Is the cause of your fall

That flaming red hair
Along with the face of blue
And those crocodile tears
That you keep letting loose

Are turning us off
More than you
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Categories: griffin, life,
Form: Rhyme

Barnard Griffin Wines

Barnard Griffin Wines

You will always love fruits of our labor,
And both sweet and dry you will savor;
To me worth trying;
Another bottle buying;
Still stay and remain on my best behavior.

Jim Horn
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Categories: griffin, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberEncounter With a Griffin

In the orchard
under the stars,
I have the kind of company
I never had before.
The creature I came here with
appeared to be human,
but my hands feel a scaly back,
and stiff fur pricks my chest.
A hooked beak tears at my mouth
destroying its sweetness.
Lifeless, I am encircled by claws.
I submit
believing I am doomed.


Originally published as "“Sweet seventeen and never
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Categories: griffin, abuse, fantasy, scary,
Form: Free verse

The Golden Griffin

What is inside the lioness of the sky                                               
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Categories: griffin, allegory, beautiful, bird, courage,
Form: Rhyme

A Griffin

I am a griffin
You may touch my happiness
But you will never reach my mind
I see things as they come
Deal with them before they come
And when they come
I take them as they are.

I am a griffin
You may break my heart
But that can never change me
I will reach to make peace
Hope to bring back the loss
Restore the
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Categories: griffin, encouraging, identity, inspiration, life,
Form: Ballad

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