Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine
...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering
Like you, he p...
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Categories:
hulks, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse
Learn Your Place In Society
...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral...
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Categories:
hulks, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Inside Gym
...The neophytes
The hunks, the hulks
The curbs, the bulks....
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Categories:
hulks, beauty, body, engagement, power,
Form: Than-Bauk
Old War Stories
...I am young, a tough nut,
hard to crack.
Thick mud splashes half-blind me.
Bones are jostled, pushed into aching flesh.
I am spun around and dumped,
lifted up shoved back in.
A pummeled nose ble...
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Categories:
hulks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cruciform I
...Am I the only one,
the only one left to carry this cross
through these wasted lands,
these blasted glass riddled sands.
This cross of madness.
Leagues I have traveled...
Long have I forged...
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Categories:
hulks, allegory, analogy, art, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Lying In Her Long Veils On the Calm Black Water
...Lying in her long veils on the calm black water
In a dream I shall feel lull them asleep among the foliage;
pours burning love the devil's paladins;
that by starlight! of black devils and black wo...
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Categories:
hulks, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River
...Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.
Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
T...
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Categories:
hulks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bone Seed
...Small rolling hills, valley plots,
nothing regimented,
graves not scattered, but placed
among natural features.
It’s beautiful here
especially in the Fall.
The Maples are tall and burning brigh...
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Categories:
hulks, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Villanelle: Don'T We All Cling To Life Tooth and Nail Guts In Groin
...Villanelle : Don't we all cling to Life tooth and nail guts in groin
Don't we all cling to Life tooth and nail guts in groin
E'en if the insatiable Beast glowers close behind
No matter what n...
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Categories:
hulks, anxiety, life, myth, political,
Form: Villanelle
The Ocean
...The ocean is vast, large ships traverse its waters
seabirds abound, hunting for fish
distance between continents measure in hundreds
All life is at sea
All manner of vessels is found on the blu...
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Categories:
hulks, ocean, sea,
Form: Blank verse
My Anger
...Patience of accusations begin to thin
As they toss complaints at me from now til then
If i could summarize my existence that easily i would
But another question is that if i even should
Rais...
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Categories:
hulks, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Mid-Autumn
...Plucked from before the hulks of houses going up
My childhood sea and spot of southern sky
The cornflower eyes northern poets wove into their songs
And eastern poets sang the autumn high
Climbed ...
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Categories:
hulks, autumn, city, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse
Miracle of Childhood Regained
...MIRACLE OF CHILDHOOD REGAINED
Snow - my dream miracle,
To me has always called, never cold.
Serenely reposing, softly refreshing
Like flowing water over a low weir.
Submerging sha...
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Categories:
hulks, age, dream,
Form: Free verse
Backslider
...6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look
Indecisive ones with pure intent...
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Categories:
hulks, memory,
Form: Free verse
Last Chance Lament
...Last Chance,
I passed through you many times and remember you.
You sit on the Colorado Prairie east of Denver at the intersection of two, two lane highways.
In the 1880's you were a stop al...
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Categories:
hulks, sad, travel, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
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