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Honing Poems - Poems about Honing

Premium Member Playing Chicken with an Old Friend
... no blink, no bluff— just rust-bitten bikes on a gravel road, grip slipping, brakes optional. we called it honing our craft, we didn’t dodge. we needed the crash— proof we meant it, authen......

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Categories: honing, betrayal, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a wind whispers
...the silence of peace an idle sword cuts the wind honing its edge John G. Lawless ©3/20/2025 ......

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Categories: honing, peace,
Form: Senryu



Whetting The Stone
...Whittling the point paring it down cutting the volume honing the sound Sharpening each line words drop and fall meaning to thunder — lightning recalled (Dreamsleep: February, 2025) ......

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Categories: honing, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Power of Love
...There is no denying the power of love. It is a splendid teacher Quite adept at instructing us In ways that completely alter our character, And telling us how to be what we never were, Or never e......

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Categories: honing, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member while ego slept
...a notch higher above the head ovoid grazing the crown chakra a moist ethereal implant awakes signalling embodiment of transcendence within the aspect of consciousness immanent the ha......

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Categories: honing, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Etched in stone
...As both the dreamer and the dreamed in this world, if we would wake up here, etch these words in stone; save by honing rough edges, by ego knurled, being the optimal method to atone, the flag of ......

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Categories: honing, god, light, love, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
night
...dark is the morning dark is my phone with aliens rushing our border i watch these vermin with contempt i take my eyes off at 8am sharp the commute is only an hour but a good first impression i wil......

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Categories: honing, 12th grade, poetry, student,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetic Genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley
...NN: "Gemini, in light of the following assessment of Percy Bysshe's Shelley verbal and/or literary IQ and level of poetic intelligence and giftedness by you (from another conversation), how much hig......

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Categories: honing, history, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Overly Particular Contest Judges
...Not for the contest No more do I despair writing for contests with an off the wall theme Those that want me to create a nightmare from what was once a beautiful dream. No more do I c......

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Categories: honing, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shingles doesn't care
...There's a tv commercial with a metaphor, that some of us may have heard before, "shingles doesn't care". If one rolls the virus dice rsv and covid aren't very nice but "shingles doesn't care." C......

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Categories: honing, funny, health,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Lights, Camera, Action
... Sweat drips backstage, mouth parched, heart beating at a sprinter's pace. All eyes on me, as lights dim with spotlight honing on mic and lips. Words flow to a standing ovation - I soak it all i......

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Categories: honing, art, spoken word,
Form: Sijo
Stranger Things
... From strange elixir of mind a form walks in forming strange lines, in a poem of a chant of a spell, encantrain echoes it's well. Where roses bloom, dead and spirits recite their bleed of......

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Categories: honing, art,
Form: Lyric
The Lost Cause
...Like a corpse laid bare, Honing the hatchet of hate, Is a lost cause care.......

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Categories: honing, anger, death, lost, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Restorative Splendor
...Written: September 11, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Don't fret, dear; let's wend off the strife, Candor your winsome grace—embrace life. With ......

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Categories: honing, analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heaven
...Head and heart misaligned Happiness is denied Halting the flow of thought Horrors spawned by mind die Honing silence with bliss Hunger for God’s touch grows Heaven’s light dawns within......

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Categories: honing, heaven,
Form: Pleiades

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