The fateful day we met
...I still remember the day I saw you,
It as fresh and beautiful, like the early morning dew.
It was in the season of winter,
when the sky was clear and cold breeze blew.
Yet when I saw you for th...
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Categories:
immortalised, butterfly, crush, cute love,
Form: ABC
Pillar
...A second ago.
Yes just a second,
she was beautiful
beyond comparison.
Not a wrinkle or a frown line.
Succulent lips,
glowing skin.
Gorgeous hair
cascading down her back.
Even her hands we...
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Categories:
immortalised, angst, art, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Scorched Earth Social Policing
...a thousand tragedies paned
onto the community headlines
slashes the idle spirits
the wound enrages them to
seek out sadistic glee for the sake
to title themselves as 'woken.'
pitchforks an...
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Categories:
immortalised, allegory, extended metaphor, social,
Form: Free verse
911 the Falling Man Cometh
...The falling man, one photograph captured in time
An unforgettable image, imprinted on this mind
He represents us all, weather we like it or not
His faith did not kill him, ...
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Categories:
immortalised, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Only Star For Me
...Bethlehem, a star attraction, out of thee,
Among the chilliads, the small, the great.
A shining example - how grateful are we?
How deep and wide, one stellar star of fate.
In storeh...
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Categories:
immortalised, star,
Form: Rhyme
Renaissance Man
...master of preparation
with
pen& brush
latent energy
sparked
by
God
monumental
marvels
proportioned
in genius
marbled magnificence
of dimensional...
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Categories:
immortalised, art, christian,
Form: Ekphrasis
Saintly Ambrosia
...Padraig was a talented man
stroked the harp in sack-cloth kaftan
blew tin whistles sweetly
sang harmony completely
now immortalised on a Guinness can
24th February 2021...
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Categories:
immortalised, appreciation,
Form: Limerick
Jazz Age Jottings
...in the dust
of
butterfly wings
short stories of
immortalised era,
a
type cast 'pigeion holed'.
a history
as well as an
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Categories:
immortalised, writing,
Form: Ekphrasis
My Choice Clerihew
...Edmund Clerihew Bentley
wrote poetry everso gently.
His greatest claim to fame
immortalised his mother's maiden name...
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Categories:
immortalised, humor, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Oldham Bloke Based On Real Incident
...The Oldham bloke passed me as I walked down the road
Passing me on the footpath
He was small with a slight limp
Wearing blue jeans and a black jacket
He uttered a comment:
You are a bastard
I r...
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Categories:
immortalised, for him, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Heroine of Harrow
...To the heroine of harrow:
I offered hard labour, ploughing my soul in an inch,
Now, days go by in my Trelleborg without feeling a pinch,
Spotlights, random hot rods, my own stigma as the mark of ...
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Categories:
immortalised, angst, grief, memory,
Form: Free verse
Compendium of Humour With Wit
...mene tekel peres - calligraphic prescience.
global village voice - a dialect of babel
the poetry slam - pen viva voce
inherent bloodline - curdle into nepotism
Atlanta's Oliver Hardy
so pr...
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Categories:
immortalised, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Smile At the Foot of the Ladder
...It was a ladder called Death
I found myself at its foot, a bit foggy in the mind,
Hurt in the heart and worn out with everything else
Next to it, was a signboard on which was written
"Climb with ...
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Categories:
immortalised, death, life, sorrow, stress,
Form: Free verse
Overpowered
...It has been so since the moment I felt your presence
Your vibes have connected to mine
As metals get stuck to magnets
As dew droplets stick on leaves
As butterflies get attracted to flowers
As L...
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Categories:
immortalised, crush, longing, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Chosen Three
...If I had to choose three people who have influenced my life
Through time and space,
I think their diverse backgrounds would be the big surprise.
Yet they all were able to keep their humanity,
Th...
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Categories:
immortalised, anti bullying, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Narrative
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