Broken but Bold Enough
...Working against heavy odds,
a little hovel, he did build
in a verdant stretch of fertile land,
off the noisy frenzied crowd
With sheaves of hay, he thatched its r...
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Categories:
hurling, angst, dream, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
A watchman noticed a shepherd
...hurling
morality
his pulpit suit rich red
impressed myopic saints
his breath suffered
from wine...
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Categories:
hurling, christian, gospel, perspective, religion,
Form: Other
Night Carnival Delights
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We hit the fair gate at half-past eight,
The sky lit up like candle lit birthday cake.
Fairy floss blew from hand to mouth to hair,
As the Ferris wheel spun; wild dreams in air.
I won a teddy...
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Categories:
hurling, adventure, celebration, color, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmos
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Within the hazy clouds of the cosmos,
Amongst the glint of boiling stars and asphyxiating dust,
Where phantasmal realms dance with bleak reality,
Lie the foundations of new life in the unive...
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Categories:
hurling, art, beautiful, creation, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Reaping
...After "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
how long shall I be dreaming
of this place where darkness abounds
who shall lift me gleaming
show me your light and heavenly sounds
(or are you th...
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Categories:
hurling, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
In Stars Above
...Checked by Syllable Counter (www.howmany syllables.com> syllable-counter)
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In Stars Abo...
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Categories:
hurling, self, sky, spiritual, stars,
Form: Rhyme
What Stones in Rivers Remember
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Stones remember,
the first cold plunge
in ice-melt currents
hurling the sense of fear.
They remember
each bump, each grind,
each sudden collision,
that carved their surface
to soft compl...
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Categories:
hurling, river,
Form: Free verse
Sipping My Tea
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John 8:7
“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
Sipping herbal tea, my min...
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Categories:
hurling, appreciation, blessing, gospel, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Birthright
...Is Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism?
Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe?
Where perfect is hour glas...
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Categories:
hurling, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Birthright
...Is Harry Potter hero or the son of nepotism ?
Did you notice Parvati or a pinch of Racism?
Where tempests do come and go
Were Grendel and Caliban really the foe?
Where perfect is hour glas...
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Categories:
hurling, anti bullying, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks
...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)
"Stares upstairs..
Angels’ weeing above..
Be a good chap..
Show some love bruv..
Turn off the ta...
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Categories:
hurling, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
I See The Law Of Nature Like Love And Life
...I went to the forest.
I watched the sunset.
I talked about harmony
Everything about nature.
I took endless repetitions,
Of adjective lines and colors.
Think about the cycle of life,
Birth, dea...
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Categories:
hurling, life, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
easter reading
...Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and
had been blessed...
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Categories:
hurling, art, best friend, blessing,
Form: ABC
Young Man In Battle
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A threadbare sigh relentlessly lisps
while he begs with twilight
for inner calm;
Dear life...he is just a young man,
wobbly feet wanting to run away
from unknown gr...
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Categories:
hurling, angst, poverty, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Stepping Stones to Success
...“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping stones.” Enid Blyton
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Stepp...
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Categories:
hurling, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
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