Creature of Doom
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What creature is this that cometh near
His luggage filled to the brim with fear
Crushing our lives, crushing our beliefs
O whence for me shall bring only griefs
What of the men whom now weep?
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Categories:
gunwale, children, dark, death, fear,
Form: Lyric
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...
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Categories:
gunwale, abuse, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Storm Warning
...I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the...
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Categories:
gunwale, adventure, fun, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
...Glory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficie...
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Categories:
gunwale, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part One
...Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.
Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic ca...
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Categories:
gunwale, anger, confusion, crush, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Glory To Thermodynamics
...and spoils of Western Civilization.
Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and...
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Categories:
gunwale, adventure, earth, green, heaven,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water Iv
...Thump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
In the bilge beneath the gunwale;
Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards,
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
Express ...
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Categories:
gunwale, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Chill
...Seventeen skiffs and boats tethered
In twos and threes on the river Thames
With their canvas winter shrouds
And rows of seagulls perched on each,
Almost perfectly aligned,
Heads towards honey...
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Categories:
gunwale, autumn, beauty, river,
Form: Free verse
Marlino
...Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue...
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Categories:
gunwale, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
...Chapter 13d
Yet at length he reawakened
As if in another lifetime
Han discerned a sound and movement
Stiffly rose to look about him
And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in th...
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Categories:
gunwale, adventure, africa, animal, children,
Form: Narrative
Dana Sees the Southern Cross
...Off Terra Firma sixteen weeks now.
My legs take roots; my eyes become infinite.
Past the Tropic of Cancer, the Lesser Antilles.
Talk of brown skinned girls, Purple Clouds of Magellan.
The South...
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Categories:
gunwale, sea,
Form: Free verse