Herculean Poems

Scene, While Away, 2

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Background B.B King it

You'll get home alone

A Quartering as Jazz
As quart and liter
As meter and mile 
Footage and reconcile

Irish Quartermasters Gaurd

Kevin J. O'Meadhra

Trace a...
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Categories: herculean, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMARTI THE MOUSE

...MARTI THE MOUSE
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Marti, a mouse of discerning taste,
strung his hammock.
not of woven reeds,
nor silken thread pilfered
from a sleeping giant's beard,
but dande...
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Categories: herculean, 12th grade, cute,
Form: Free verse


Herculean hero

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Our towering talisman…glowering totem…manic volcanic Viking King..

The flowering genesis of a powering nemesis…

Herculean but Sisyphean struggles showering..

The penury of injury…intrigue ...
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Categories: herculean, spoken word, sports,
Form: Ballad

FORGE AHEAD

... FORGE AHEAD

Forge ahead, spines are steel
anger, tragedy, treachery heal
betrayal merely a step on ladders
Golden Age arises, Kali Age passes 
fragrant oysters in Bloomsbury Blue
man...
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Categories: herculean, age, blue, change, character,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMoving Mountains

...I will move mountains for you, oft said 
with little brain and surplus testosterone.
But why the plurality?
Surely, a single mountain moved
is Herculean enough to satisfy
the desires of the most...
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Categories: herculean, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHow did you get their names so wrong

...Thor did not live up to his name
He was skinny, weak a petite Fontaine
Wren, his brother was a Herculean guy
Brawny and strapping, he caught many an eye

How did you get their names so wrong?
I...
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Categories: herculean, humor,
Form: Rhyme

wild, ingraitiating rancid supples teet

...It takes this version of you awhile for
Me to consider, as an illusion your so
Consistent i can lean on the 
Imaginary love i create to spend time
Being out of love, walking a path i
Can’t share...
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Categories: herculean, betrayal, city, integrity,
Form: Free verse

The Journey

...The Journey

……….. had been arduous, 
the path had been cramped,
the afternoon was shortening
and my destination crept closer….
I walked on.

The path still strolled ahead of me
and no matte...
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Categories: herculean, family, imagery, journey, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHerculean

...Herculean was a maestro in the kitchen
We knew his secret, for we were clairaudient
Others had no idea how much help he had
Chefs from around the world whispered their secrets

He collected thei...
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Categories: herculean, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

EQUITY ON ROCKS

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Eyes draped in black,  
The Scale of Justice, stark and exact,  
Struggles with truth and fairness,  
In a land where might eclipses righteousness.

Justice delayed, where should we start?  ...
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Categories: herculean, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSobering

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The sky turned stygian grey, violent winds blew.
From above, tears of liquid grief poured down.
Flood waters rose, pressure got built under the soil.
The earth erupted with rocks a...
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Categories: herculean, angst, death, depression, moving
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAlone, yet not completely alone, drifting in the labyrinth of my thoughts

...Alone, yet not completely alone, drifting in the labyrinth of my thoughts,
The tiny fingers of my soul reaching through the void,
Yearning for the solace of your guiding hand, a lighthouse in the s...
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Categories: herculean, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNotice Things

...Near the end, is far too late to find what you have lost; 
obvert your gaze to all the tiny miracles, to hear, to see, to touch;   
the wind through ancient Aegea...
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Categories: herculean, beauty, nature,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberBEACH SPLIT

...A Buffed Male Body walks along the beach
A Female watch
Her eyes like a fishnet catch
Summer heat warmth in the urges
Sweat pouring down the male buffed body
If he were to pose, the Female would...
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Categories: herculean, adventure, appreciation, crush, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

It's not a two-letter, four-letter word

...For some, this two-letter word
is as ponderous as a sixty-cubit chain.
It rattles around in their hearts
like a lightning-and-thunder storm.
Uttering it is as impossible as
eating blazing coals ...
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Categories: herculean, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse

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