Volcano Run part 3 - Escaping the Ashfall
...Part three
Once we were home, the bikes secure
we sealed the clubhouse, best we could
waiting for the ash to stop
but fearing that it never would,
All the TV news was dismal;
all predictin...
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Categories:
idled, fun, journey, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Hopeless
...Hands of time are pacing, I'm idled and numb. Dreams and wishes that never wanna materialize, stare in the far reach of my hopes, only dust traces are witnessed. Impatience, cripples my sanity, I wan...
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Categories:
idled, character, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
EV shock therapy
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I went to my car dealer, I hoped to save the planet
The saleslady told me EVs were cheap, and to call her Janet
She said we've got so many subsidies, and they're a great deal
I bought a F-150 Li...
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Categories:
idled, car, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
Hell is Going With Him
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Relentless, empowering, with so many mountains to climb
Remorseless destruction, given on those who idled around
Youthful years spent wasted on anger never worth its time
Pursued until driven...
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Categories:
idled, change, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Couplet
Bonnie and Clyde Legacy
...the 1934 model 40 B Fordor deluxe sedan idled outside the gas station
Inside was Clyde Barrow, who was robbing the place
His moll, Bonnie Parker, sat inside the car, holding a shotgun
these noto...
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Categories:
idled, america, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Fine New Day
..."I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings
Hello my dearest darling, it was our time to wake,
The rustic rooster had already roused my re...
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Categories:
idled, love,
Form: Alliteration
Love
...Love
Topic Sentence: The one thing that poisons and endangers love, has always been the test of time.
For the stars shine bright,
On the loneliest of nights
To Give way a passage to Thee
The ...
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Categories:
idled, abuse, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Muted
...She had been stalked
Dark thoughts draped in silence
Ranting
Gnawing
Suckling
At the breast of doubt
Whimpering
In the shadowed suffering
Of idled indecision
Held hostage
By the blank page
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Categories:
idled, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Deal 6
...Arlis was amazed steam was not coming off as he rode off in the rain burning with shame.Suzanne looked shell shocked by his long awaited arrival and sudden departure.And Francie looked at him hotly a...
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Categories:
idled, conflict, history,
Form: Free verse
You Spoke of Boundaries
...you spoke of boundaries
allowed me but secret gates
acknowledged only in the shadows
my ability to separate your reason
from your logic
and that is what you
never cared for in me
words
you ga...
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Categories:
idled, betrayal, desire, introspection, woman,
Form: Free verse
As Shadows Mend
...*Image of Between Doors by Hope.
As Shadows Mend
A lingering bravura form ... dawn midst twilight's brilliance,
It sprung a length of an unscathed course -- accidentally,
The mute...
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Categories:
idled, dream, imagery, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
John's Departure
...While his presidential jet idled on the runway
Many good people came to mourn
Oh,
A troubled American nightmare had woken
On that day when they murdered John
It was such a dark heartbreak moment...
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Categories:
idled, betrayal, farewell, freedom, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Because of You
...Because of you
I wait idled and swimming in filth.
Because of you
I twitch forty times the way of God.
Because of you
I stake a flat iron face
In front of your front.
Because of you
Sixtee...
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Categories:
idled, cry, desire, feelings, identity,
Form: Free verse
Paradise Psalms
...Paradise Psalms
Island drums midst strewn drafts, echoes,
Involved labyrinths summon by themes,
Some rhapsody erupts, purging rocks,
Every village, swelling amid chants,
Emp...
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Categories:
idled, inspiration, song, sound, uplifting,
Form: Haibun
Look Closely
...Look closely
between the bars.
Look at
pain, angst, hunger
businesses idled.
A prison
enough --
her empty
salon.
Bill...
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Categories:
idled, 11th grade, angst, pain,
Form: Verse
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