Victorian Christmas Eve
...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh!
Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly!
The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound,
But a bla...
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Categories:
hefted, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
It Was Hefted Upon A Breeze -
...It was hefted upon a breeze -
As in a warm, flowing current
Through a sea of palo verdes -
To search for an embankment.
That seed of promise -
An implicit aster -
Was sent to broken ...
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Categories:
hefted, flower, inspiration, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Renascence Iii
...I tucked out the earth with both my shaky arms.
I sighed out loudly till a sob terrified me to death.
A giant heart touched me with my final breath.
No dark disguise, by God, can hide ...
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Categories:
hefted, bereavement, destiny, grief,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Metal
...Thud
This thing born of breath and bone,
Seated on its secret throne,
A harbinger of ignition,
Pulling us from our perdition.
Thud
By the dream and the waking,
Anger ripe for the t...
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Categories:
hefted, 11th grade, anger, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67
...The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke. The elf turned to Gwald...
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Categories:
hefted, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Wanted
...last Friday
My English class just ended and everyone’s packing up (18 students). The class is held outdoors under a tent due to COVID. My professor says, “Ms Vionet, may I speak with you ...
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Categories:
hefted, appreciation, celebration, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Home Sweet Home
...There is urgency in their flight
a scurrying haste to the search
each twig chosen by the eye of experience
balanced, hefted, delivered.
Ah, the nesting process
endless anticipation and prepara...
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Categories:
hefted, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Cavemen
...Ugg and Ogg, on a rock they sat.
The pair were in hiding from the sabred cat.
They had hunted for a whole week long.
But, recently it had all gone wrong.
The ladies were waiting in their cav...
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Categories:
hefted, funny, humor, silly,
Form: Verse
The Lonely
...Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside. Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there. Years perhaps. Yes definitely years. The blotched rusty brown stains, yellow...
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Categories:
hefted, depression,
Form: Prose
Duracell Bunny
...Duracell Bunny No More
To her loyal fans, Nicol Ann David is the Duracell Bunny in Woman Squash...
She dominated the rankings for an incredible 9 years in the World Woman Squash ...
While lesse...
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Categories:
hefted, celebration, character, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Eerie Sight
...Coach Alan Brown was incredibly unique
At eighty he had an athlete's physique.
A fullback mocked his years,
Brown hefted him by his ears.
Since then mouthy jocks have squelched every squea...
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Categories:
hefted, humor, sports,
Form: Limerick
Rechargeable Electric Mosquito Bat
...Rechargeable Electric Mosquito Bat
Ho, ho,ho..!
What a joyous Christmas season it is gonna be…
This little gift my favourite little gal has just bought me…
Tore away the gift wrappings to r...
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Categories:
hefted, christmas, confusion, desire, grandfather,
Form: Narrative
Winter, 1948
...WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep ...
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Categories:
hefted, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Classy Squash Final In Borneo
...It is a final long dreamed for by the organisers...
It is a final matchup between the top 2 contenders...
Here in this for off island of Borneo, 3 days of frantic matches...
Will end with this c...
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Categories:
hefted, appreciation, beauty, games, inspiration,
Form: Light Verse
Just a Woman
...Just a Woman
She stood in the cold, bitter salt spray
masquerading as tears stinging her cheeks.
North winds had come early, rough seas,
maddened surf, no sight of sails in two weeks.
She stoo...
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Categories:
hefted, beauty, family, love, strength,
Form: Quintain (English)
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