Honed Poems

Premium MemberSchool of Life

...Nature’s chemical soup is ordered by catalytic love
Form and being are created to the beat of her mother’s heart
She bursts into the world, gulps her first breaths and cries
From that moment of bi...
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Categories: honed, education, granddaughter, life, school,
Form: Free verse

1 reason why

...I am the rot beguiling the saccharine summer hue
I am the self in selfish sorrow, sullying the morning dew
Sickened with the mortal blips of emotion
To fall with the fragility of flesh hipped eros...
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Categories: honed, future, imagery, recovery from,
Form: Free verse


Alignment

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crown petals unfold for lofty Light
fontanelle gaping softly smile
Centre Point’s hole blazon mile

pineal connects as conical way
to galactic edenic binomial rays
loosens ov...
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Categories: honed, allusion, body, change, deep,
Form: Rhyme

We Drink Ambrosia - Fugue

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we drink ambrosia from goblets within our Hearts
browline meets browline you drink your own 
which dripped into mine hush hush the surfer 
and soldier homed, drinking ambrosia hone...
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Categories: honed, allegory, allusion, character, deep,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberI'm just starting - in Trump's own words

...Everything I've touched has turned to gold,
A feeling that never gets too worn or old,
I savor every moment, every win,
With my opponents stuck in their unsightly bin.

The more they shout and f...
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Categories: honed, confidence, humorous, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberThe Rock: That Rolls Away the Stone

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The Rock that rolls away the stone
Knows His very own
Crushed the head with His heel bone
Goes to prepare a mansion in His home

The Rock that rolls away the stone
Different from Rock n Rol...
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Categories: honed, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

The Blade in the Garden

...I found a blade beside the rose,
its silver kissed by morning’s close;
It caught the sun as if to keep
the fire warm while earth still sleeps.

It did not stir when I drew near,
nor tremble wit...
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Categories: honed, fate, freedom, passion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who

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Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf

The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
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Categories: honed, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Become a Legacy of Love

...For L, with Love and Light. You're only young once. Enjoy it!

Become a Legacy of Love 
By Michelle Morris 
24/07/2025

I hope you never forget 
How Unique and Special you are
I hope you neve...
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Categories: honed, angel, encouraging, light, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHaiku Moments 2

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#cherryblossoms

no more cherry blooms
but now hens and chicks tell me
time never slows down

#lotus #tanka

from mud the lotus
rises to meet air and sun
its blossom follows
the path the...
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Categories: honed, nature,
Form: Haiku

Life is a battlefield

...This life is a fierce battlefield,
Little did I know before my birth,
My weapons should have been better honed,
So no earthly force could conquer me.

Friends I made while I was nobody,
Turned ...
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Categories: honed, extended metaphor, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Silent Fire, Sacred Strength

...The classroom is a quiet forge,
and I, a blade in silent fire—
shaped by care, tempered in calm,
honed to serve a brighter purpose.

But into this heatswept chamber she storms,
a tempest cloake...
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Categories: honed, anti bullying, discrimination, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFire-Fly Stars

...Fire-Fly Stars

I Always Wanted
To Be A Scientist.
Someone Asked 
Me Once:
Aren’t You?

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What I Really
Wanted To Be
Was A Polar
Bear Lusting
A Powerful Musk
With All Effort,
With ...
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Categories: honed, life,
Form: Free verse

Tigers Tall

...Tigers in the tall grass.
Bruins in the buckwheat.
Sirens, sing of sassafras!
Eagles, time to eat...

Linger, O my looking-glass...
Red run in reply.
Languid liquor, poison gas!
Death, glance...
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Categories: honed, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Sanga Banga

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Who is the greatest from the land of the other hand…

The pure top draw..southpaw....

Lara or Spice Isle style.. guile and 

Wiles of Kumar Sangakarra..


Who wouldn’t hanker in their sea...
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Categories: honed, sports,
Form: Rhyme

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