The Wind And The Rain
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Powerful forces reign over our world
some forces are evil, but some good
they have a power beyond our lives
if you could strip them bare as nude
Then maybe their power would defuse
but here ...
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Categories:
joists, life, rain, wind,
Form: Rhyme
When love leaves, be the roof
...When love leaves, taking your home and walls,
Let the elements beat you down
No job or acquaintances to shield you
Nothing but waiting as your friend and foe
For a home with love buzzing in the ...
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Categories:
joists, i miss you, lost
Form: Free verse
Meditations On a Derelict Wharf
...The tide worn and barnacled pylons
holding up the wharf wobble
on a sea swell like loose teeth.
Most of the decking planks
are missing. Those that remain
span joists with bones
of rotted wood...
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Categories:
joists, age, hope, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Demolition
...We’re taking down an old and rotting barn;
perhaps “garage” might be a better term.
Blue metal siding, faded long ago,
has not come easy; this I can confirm.
The timbers, cut when measurements ...
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Categories:
joists, farm,
Form: Quatrain
A Burning Mishap
...A spark erupts, setting alight a formidable flame.
Casting ascending vivid flickers of amber gleaming.
Ignited fervor, unbeknownst from whence it came.
The ominous blaze glares through the windows...
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Categories:
joists, fire,
Form: Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 62
...Joulupukki hesitated for a few seconds,
“I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but what if we feed the magic corn to a team of deer and they pull a small sleigh across the sky rather than ...
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Categories:
joists, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
South West Monsoon
...From a distance,
the incessant chant of monsoon from south west,
sounds like an old witch practicing her craft,
Turning the sleeping dark cloud to a wandering gale,
On its arrival must the sun ...
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Categories:
joists, art, environment, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
...I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
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Categories:
joists, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The World Is Not For Me
...No the world is not for me.
it's for suburban hitlers
who indulge in protocol wars
and middle class wives
in camaro jeeps.
No the world is not for me
but for trendy young things
and...
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Categories:
joists, anger, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Some Fallen-Leaves Regarding Longevity 6 - 7
...6.
i am to be blown off on the first bombardment
then it is to be flown
in the crowd of fire-flies
on the bushes of the scented-lemons
and it is to see the memory race of the grown-up gi...
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Categories:
joists, fantasybody, day,
Form: Prose Poetry