Hawk Ascending
...This day-shine has a wine glass for every atom.
A great pond of light floods a crystalline skyscape.
Here in a wind-turned clarity
glints of a lantern-etched lucidity
take substance and form.
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Categories:
hawkish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Red Alert'
...I think you all should know, bout a situation set to go.'
Its coming real soon.' Elephant in the room!
Wow its hairy and fast, Canada don't find out last.!
Now you won't hear of this in your zoom....
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Categories:
hawkish, abuse, autumn, career, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath Again
...Gott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!
Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists
will apply figurative screws
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercis...
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Categories:
hawkish, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Hope
...Halcyon of hiraeth,
Helm harvesting green-gold
Haven above hawkish
Harlequin harbinger,
Heart of seven sisters,
Heliophilic hail
Healing halo, love-hued....
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Categories:
hawkish, emotions, heaven, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Pleiades
Coming of the Entitled One
...What gain is reaped in war's cruel strife?
What honor does it truly crown?
When the lives of our kin, precious and rife,
Are silenced, and hope is torn down.
In ruins, we hear someone sobbing,
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Categories:
hawkish, allah, america, christian, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Osprey
...In a turning acre
the high dark silhouette
of a river-hawk.
Wings sharply-etched,
now it dips, and light reveals
each fine feather
as a clear signature.
I looked and saw
the carvi...
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Categories:
hawkish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
She Can Dish It Out But
...You have a weird head she said. What is wrong with it?
I don’t know I admitted. No one told me this ever before I met you.
She smirked. Her blue eyes were glowing; I thought she was being funny.
S...
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Categories:
hawkish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
What Can We Do
...A feathered clutch once bewailed –
What can a sparrow do
in a sky full of raptors?
The red-necked puckers’ won’t arrive
until blood smells like copper pennies.
She was only one winter old,
cr...
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Categories:
hawkish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hawk
...A great pond of light
this day.
A wine glass for every atom.
Then in a turning draft,
lantern-etched and lucid,
a clear signature,
a thing only flame and water
could make with their power to
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Categories:
hawkish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lion Bout Grabbing Tiger By Tail
...Lion 'bout grabbing tiger by tail
Holy mole lee
watch out fowl, balladeer
look out... i.e. donkey kong
primate doth share
footloose slothful writing,
essentially swiftly tailored hare
reed...
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Categories:
hawkish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
After Easter
...Hawkish angels with golden bows
chase away shawnee and wolves.
A sinewy faith built the rough and ready.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.
Despite the tornadoes,
we continued to r...
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Categories:
hawkish, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
To Little Birds and Tweeting An Ode
...Hail, little birdie perched on tree!
What hast thou now to say to me?
“A little bird has told me so,”
As many say. This well we know.
How joyfully I hear thee tweet!
Not every tweet I know is sw...
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Categories:
hawkish, bird, humorous, irony,
Form: Ode
Gott Oh Mighty Trump Iz On the Warpath
...Gott Oh Mighty,Trump iz on the Warpath!
Das Don Auld (can hard tank
tucker son of Carl, and leave
landscape barren) calling out
rigged ken tuckered hoarfrost race,
viz demolition derby presagi...
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Categories:
hawkish, 4th grade, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
True Cowboy
...Tan leather boots with fancy stitching
Butterscotch vest with pencilled fringe
Polished black Stetson size eight and three quarters
Faded denim shirt with copper snaps
Silver oversized belt buckl...
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Categories:
hawkish, jealousy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Consonant Like a Vow El
...Consonant Like A Vow (el)
Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua
(just recently) late John McCain, and his
surviving family suddenly damning origina...
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Categories:
hawkish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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