Across the Way
...Where is the sunlight's pleasantness
by time and space across it gets
to eye that's stretched (for here 'tmust stay)
to catch but glimpse of summer’s day?
Where is the fresh and tender blade
t...
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Categories:
husked, self,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphosis
...
Blessings from above*
Transformed lust to love*
Delusion to illumination*
Earth-heaven bilocation*
Heavenly Manna poured into our hearts like fine husked wheat
He m...
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Categories:
husked, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Scrumping
...Late summer
and the barefoot boys are scrumping.
They have scrunched-up themselves
into the green sap of leaf and branch,
as trees to be climbed, branches to fall from.
In the village shop
an...
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Categories:
husked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Got Friggin Heebie Jeebies
...I got friggin heebie jeebies
Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission
to be lovey dove vee.
Vague remembrances of ...
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Categories:
husked, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form: Rhyme
Lattice-Husked Willow
...Composing harp melodies as a musical score,
Sounds that seem to have been frozen in time,
In reverse metamorphosis, crystals melt more,
Snoring in lattice husks, a willow moth sublime....
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Categories:
husked, analogy, appreciation, character, creation,
Form: Pantoum
Reserata Carcerem Liii
...Quoth felon fate t' nosy nature -
savoring sapid strays punctured.
Worn winds for eerie eavesdrop tarr':
"Why oft does thou nurse salty scars?"
Nosy nature hewn smooth visage
'to a sassy smirk...
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Categories:
husked, myth,
Form: Sonnet
I Cut My Toe Nails
...I carve out my dried husked hope
And in the cave I hide the desperation
of living
Carefully, I cover the opening with the foliage
of normalcy
The Job
The Wife
Pay the rent
Stop at the r...
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Categories:
husked, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Harvest
...These leavings are devastating.
I feel husked and scraped
The cobb cast on the bin
While destiny enjoys my entrails.
A continuos cycle of harvest
Where heaven recieves the best
And the living ...
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Categories:
husked, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Brave Fall
...We lingered too the passenger like
awaiting the snake that runs on dike
We sat, hands tied to lower jaw like
Mom waiting for her dour child to spike
For hopefully the rain which pours like
Husk...
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Categories:
husked, confidence, courage, hope, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Gristmill Wheel
...Deep in the overgrown hollow of the woods
the gristmill wheel still turns where memories once stood,
splashing water lightly on each rung some worn and gone
as it circles the breeze with cre...
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Categories:
husked, perspective, time,
Form: Rhyme
Gristmill
...So, this is where the sheaves were hauled
Where corn was husked, and seeds were hulled
So, this is where the meal was ground,
until the clock ran down
Round and round
a donkey bound
As...
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Categories:
husked, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Free verse
The Buzzard
...Within the common (all purpose room)
at highland manor apartments aye
daily encounter, one bewitchingly dreaded
fiendishly horrible, jeeringly loopy,
nap noopy, pugnaciously rave...
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Categories:
husked, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unwoven Memories
...I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial q...
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Categories:
husked, culture, family, farm, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Twin Fireless Room
...The hearts that do not beat
Quiet in the viaduct;
A steeled echo husked
Alchemic clones vastly entreat.
I slipped you a talking pill
As the loam, pulsing dust of cars
Filled up on dar...
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Categories:
husked, horror, surreal,
Form: Quatrain
Collab Convos Jt
...Jazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound
Moons to profile the edge of weather
And sun to light the way
Inside the cliffs and black holes beyond
Abov...
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Categories:
husked, august, autumn, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
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