decluttering
...connected by a net of misconception
venomous spider’s webs
spun a murky vapour
synapses raged and festered in a Self
frozen on autopilot with anger and regret
an endless loop of thoughts and ...
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Categories:
icicled, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
icicled, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
One Looks Up
...Monochrome winds fantail snowdrifts.
Fleck-churned sparks maw feathery flights
and a howling backdraft
spikes matted fur.
Pawing winds spring traps clenched,
injurious icicled haunches hollowed....
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Categories:
icicled, anxiety, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A Moment With Me
...out in icicled darkness
softly i gave myself to the shadows
my nodding head beating
to her singing hurts
as i make shapes
breathing sharpened
mist catching
moon eyelashes
as they flutter
bas...
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Categories:
icicled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
First-Person Personal
...First-Person Personal
By Sy Roth
Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies
Fearful of using the first-person personal
Masking it instead by holograms of itself,
Playful non-entities cavor...
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Categories:
icicled, 3rd grade, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
Brexit Sonnet 48 - Weather Report
...Brexit Sonnet No. 48
‘Weather Report’
I’m the ‘Beast from the East’, a blizzard of painful degree,
The bus and the train now refuse to adhere to the clock.
With a blast of my breath, your di...
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Categories:
icicled, political,
Form: Sonnet
Once Upon a Tomorrow
...When birds mass in ebony flight,
and skim brightness from the sun,
light shall not flee your eyes.
...
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Categories:
icicled, dedication, hope, i miss
Form: Free verse
March Madness
...March Madness
March shakes her icicled head
exhales Winter’s last gasp
chills clouded moisture
sheds her stinging tears,
icy pellets of adieu.
©John G. Lawless
3/31/2017...
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Categories:
icicled, farewell, march,
Form: Free verse
Winter
...Winter
Frosted forests
Shimmy and shiver
Glistening gloriously in icicled
Dresses...
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Categories:
icicled, seasons, weather, winter,
Form: Cinquain
Icicled Seashells
...Icicled seashells
Future moments of Summer
waiting to be thawed....
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Categories:
icicled, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku
Winter's Wonderland
...As I look out my frosted window
my breath fogs it over.
My warm fingers ease
the minute water droplets away,
to reveal mother nature's majesty.
Powerlines struggle under the weight
of her breat...
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Categories:
icicled, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse