The Shepherd
...The staff of my Father enjoining the past
futurity’s herding a bleating morass
The bloodline of orphans forever is linked
tattooing the flock with invisible ink
The first time the last time whe...
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Categories:
inclemency, father,
Form: Rhyme
Devil's Breath
...Tempests of
inclemency
Cyclones filled
with pain
Tornadoes come
and go at will
With nothing
to remain
Caught inside
their whirlwind
Whose spin to wreak
and hurl
A demon vortex
roaming...
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Categories:
inclemency, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Birds
...
A red-throated hummingbird, betrayed,
begins the annual rite of packing up his nest,
in response to the mercurial spinning of winds,
and the twisted temperaments of weather.
Distant fr...
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Categories:
inclemency, angst, bird, farewell, nature,
Form: Personification
A Family Tradition
...In the chapel wherein Joe laid, his son stood, those final moments, needed.
A reflective image of one’s boyhood flooded through his mind,
fourteen years he has lived, yet somehow a hope of emulati...
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Categories:
inclemency, emotions, family,
Form: Haibun
Happy Hollidays
...HAPPY HOLLIDAYS
~~~~~*~~~~~
Storms in summer not nice!
Torrents falling as solid ice!
Holliday makers pay the price,
indoors now, must sadly suffice.
Oh no, lightning and thu...
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Categories:
inclemency, holiday, humor,
Form: McWhirtle
sweet poison, mine -
...
'I love you' moistens on your lips
I watch it, breathless, as it drips
coating, sweet, my foolish heart
now hopeless in its guileful grips
once I trilled tha...
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Categories:
inclemency, desire, irony, love hurts,
Form: Rubaiyat
Beating Januarys Blues
...Biting cold, blustery winds,
Ever the way January begins!
A time for snow and frozen rime,
That sees me composing rhymes
In scathing censure of its wiles!
Needless to say our snow piles
Get muc...
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Categories:
inclemency, january,
Form: Acrostic
Footsteps
...Everyone must walk in
The footsteps of someone
Who has gone on before them.
Sometimes they can
Continue to greatness,
Sometimes those footprints
may lead you astray
The footsteps I leave are s...
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Categories:
inclemency, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Megalithic Trees and Us In Virginia Winter
...MEGALITHIC TREES AND US
IN VIRGINIA WINTER
The inclemency of winter
has stripped the towering trees
of their peacock foliage of fall;
gravity sucking them back
to the womb that gave birth
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Categories:
inclemency, beauty, inspiration, january, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Winter Walk
...This craggy place
vehemently clings to
dawn’s perpetual shadow,
the desolate wind arbitrates
with the warm body! Mine.
To the west grey stone
fuse with inhibited sky,
within the brownish brack...
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Categories:
inclemency, nature,
Form: Free verse
Days Don'T Last, Time Does...
...It's the end of my purposeful day,
a prostate being in prayer
with much sincere accord,
and my gratitude is not hurried away;
it is persistent in its allegory
already conceded...
Days don't...
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Categories:
inclemency, deathtime, time,
Form: Sestina