Moon Spoon Serenade
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Written: March 3rd, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote" There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it". By Rumi
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Categories:
hooved, angel, moon,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Christmas Donkey
...Once upon a Christmas donkey
Mary in labor was led to a door
The man inside took pity on the young couple
Allowed them to stay in his stable
Where animals kept watch
Four-footed, hooved, and h...
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Categories:
hooved, christmas, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Musk
...Excuse me if I come across as brusque,
but you exude a certain pungent musk,
as though you’ve grown up with the wildebeests,
or recently discovered ancient yeasts.
And so for your forgiveness, I ...
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Categories:
hooved, nonsense, silly,
Form: Couplet
Meeting of the Ferals
...exhaustion has so many layers:
when devils settle into joints
naps turn into marathon affairs
concentration gaps run rampant
remnants of zest circle the drain
perhaps due to feral disease
or...
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Categories:
hooved, age,
Form: Free verse
The Game of Thrones2
...O The Pestilence ripens in the fields
as pest harvests the shops and till
Harvesting of diminished yields
To !REAL CONSPIRACY!
Sovereignty-PIRACY, tips the scales of justice,
feilty, unity, i...
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Categories:
hooved, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Game of Thrones
...O Self Righteous Mew Martyred Lost
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Dragons breath, and roasted lots
amongst the spit and gradually heated pots
crows, counted among the cost,
counting zeros,
onesies and Aftermath of As...
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Categories:
hooved, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
hooved, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross...
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Categories:
hooved, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Various Heresies 5
...Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temple...
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Categories:
hooved, creation, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Verse
Lully, Jean-Baptiste, Lwv 55
...~~~T H E I N T R E P I D P E G A S U S~~~
Star angels, dance within the quartered, light,
Of lunars rise, the age of Virgos' flight,
Sense its need for virtuous surrender,
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Categories:
hooved, allegory, angel, dance, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
A Jury of His Peers
...An old man long in years, in threadbare coat, with grizzled hair, and eyes aged and heavy.
Stood with withered hands once strong and true, which clung to an old cap.
For years he had tilled the s...
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Categories:
hooved, daughter, death, father, father
Form: Free verse
Motherly Instinct
...Motherly Instinct
Mother and daughter, 35 and 13.
Public transportation, their carriage pulls in. Mom drops her matches, quickly picking them up. Stepping on the bus, the mom senses the hunt, ...
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Categories:
hooved, beauty, dream, emotions, growing
Form: Free verse
Derek Rae
...Derek runs 26 mile marathons,
With his nerve-damaged right arm
Anchored in a sling: solid sounds,
‘Cos a truck did cause him harm.
The accident changed his life,
But he can’t remember it, r...
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Categories:
hooved, body, desire, happiness, health,
Form: Quatern
Nearly To Hell
...Through eldritch streets I walked alone
With shadows on my track,
Full jellied was my every bone,
I thought my mind would crack.
Through mist and morbid mire I went
To revel where gargoyles d...
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Categories:
hooved, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Do You Drink Milk
...Ancient battles raged, and so it goes in modern days
over who is right or wrong, the fires ignite and blaze.
The blood flows red in your veins, just as they do in mine.
Despite egotistical misgui...
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Categories:
hooved, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
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