Of All the Sights I've Seen
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I’ve traveled the world by air and by sea
Seen what many aren’t privileged to see
From heinous acts of terror to country-wide starvation
From the richest of rich to th...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, adventure, faith, light, travel,
Form: Couplet
We'Ll Find Each Other
...We'll find each other
By Michelle Morris
22/02/2023
We'll find each other
We'll always find our way back
Like a homing pigeon knows
Its way home every time
We'll miss each other
We'll fee...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, love, meaningful, relationship, romantic
Form: Free verse
Homing Pigeon
...Sorry to leave, but
Glad to be back
Travel gene's something
My DNA lacks...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, home, travel,
Form: Quatrain
The Homing Pigeon
...As a child
I liked how its life
fitted so well within
my clasped hands,
the feel
of its smooth head,
the silky
one way fall
of feathers down
to a turquoise collar,
its tight form
loaded li...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, bird,
Form: Free verse
Homing Pigeon
...Which is it, a pigeon or dove?
We hate one; the other, we love.
Your clean car, that blob?
'Twas likely a squab,
opined likewise of you, thereof.
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H/T to Gershon Wolf's Justic...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, bird,
Form: Limerick
Whatever Works For You
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Spirituality or religion?
Based on where born, most pray to a symbol;
reach for scriptures, like a homing pigeon,
laudable no doubt, resting thoughts nimble,
yet missing out on vibr...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
Just Stating the Obvious
...There’s God and there’s the devil
Man’s caught in the middle
Who’s good and who’s evil,
There’s Heaven and there’s hell
More beautiful is the earth
Can anyone otherwise tell,
There’s sin an...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond Speech
...Beyond speech
Before the words
Even leave your lips
Thinking about thinking
Looking at your thoughts
I see the building blocks
Of your breaking down
It's noisy sound image
An abstract tree g...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Captain Leslie Holden, Australian Flying Corps 1st Aif, the Other Red Baron
...Leslie Holden came from East Adelaide a South Australia town
When on 26 May 1915 he enlisted in the 4th Light Horse of the AIF renown
He was a driver when the 4th left for Egypt and the war
Then...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, war, , western,
Form: Epic
Passion Without Rein
...Let us chase each other‘s urge on scalding heaths,
Like ponies on the gallop without rein,
A deep seat harness cast into oblivion in the spurt to sea green passion‘s cosmic haze.
Equidistant red c...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Nice Couple the Tale of Jean and William Part 1 2 and 3
...A nice couple. The Tale of Jean and William. Part 1
Jean Fallen was born in 1999 and had a lonely childhood.
She grew up in Redfern but never went to school.
She lived with her mother and was r...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, 10th grade,
Form: ABC
Noah's Ark
...God asked Noah to build an ark
he was happy to oblige
but he wasn't so keen
when he found out
what had to go inside
Two of every animal
then you must set sail
the animals were fearful
the ...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, animal, bible, boat, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Write Thing
...Now comes the time when I no longer speak- nothing
But my blue blooded vessel makes the speech
I'm not faulty, its the write thing
Now comes the time when my programmed Homing Pigeon no more functio...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, write,
Form: Free verse
Questions
...Questions
I’ve got some questions; the truth if you please
I’d like to know – does a penguin have knees
Can a rhinoceros – if he has a twitch
Raise his back leg to get at his itch
If water gets in a...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, animal,
Form: Rhyme
My Slap-Myself Thing
...waterfall from skies compete with my thoughts
must be doing something else,
yet here I am,
Here. I am.
Again.
Why do I keep coming back here?!?
A mental shake,
as I chastise myself
I shouldn't ...
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Categories:
homing pigeon, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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