seizure of the moment
...
stark confusion had convulsed his wayward soul
when twilight unsettled the horizon’s tearful shadow
a silhouette invited to colour a rainbow
in order or chaos of reflection and suspense
wit...
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Categories:
juddering, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Passionate
...Pulling this wagon by the scruff of my neck,
is like relaxing cross-legged on feeble bike handles.
The gentle gusts of your hurricane dazzle me.
Humouring the limitless requests of an oxymoronic c...
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Categories:
juddering, literature, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A More Beautiful Shell
...Some way from the Firth of Forth
A shoal of glittering mackerel
Swirls and sways
Swells with the sea from silver to black
Flashes white and back to silver and grey
A...
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Categories:
juddering, adventure, animal, earth, environment,
Form: Verse
The Voice of the Voiceless
...I live in a roofless place
I do not have an expensive fur
You might not like the way
I feed myself
And I know, you neither like my presence
nor my appearance
as I'm
drowned with muddy paws
on...
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Categories:
juddering,
Form: Free verse
Night Bike
...A polished skeleton gleams in the porch light,
meshing gears rattle silver bones.
He slides tubes under his legs,
pivots on a straining fulcrum,
knee’s unlocking a juddering thrust.
He rides b...
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Categories:
juddering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Heart Stopped Beating
...Laying her back on the wall of her prison
Why was it different
It hurt more
Shocked more
Chest heavy
Grief affecting her
This terrible ache consuming every pore
Harder to swallow
It was him s...
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Categories:
juddering, anger, death, depression, family,
Form: Free verse
Le Vacance Pretentieuse: Darts
...Drops of sweat slip from my furrowed brow
Eyes squint, select a number and let fly now
Miss again, a millimetre is a mile once more
Aimed for triple twenty, only got double four
The walk of shame, ...
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Categories:
juddering, adventure, freedom, happy, history,
Form: Couplet
Luna
...Since it was Sunday in late December
the sun perched softly behind a dark
swirl - and the distant dust
turned the last ray from red to pink
well before the dainty fingers
of her small hands could cou...
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Categories:
juddering, dream, happiness, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Retribution
...The cardinal shattered the chalice
with blood of his former god and
the men garbed in tainted white
glorified their new Son
sheer roars, juddering
holes in riot
meet your god
'neath your
feet...
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Categories:
juddering, satire,
Form: Nonet
Saskatchewan Summer Evening
...SASKATCHEWAN SUMMER EVENING
Porch light spreads weakly out
Into the field and dissipates
In the buzz of grasshoppers.
Starlight and fireflies; crickets chirp.
Hot air shimmers the lights of the ...
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Categories:
juddering, life,
Form: Imagism
The Cavern of Solitude
...The echoes reverberate, bouncing off distant walls like little rubber balls
Until they slowly conjugate into a meaning that’s leaning towards sanity
Dripping with profanity, as it slides inside my ...
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Categories:
juddering, depression, introspectionlight, light,
Form: Rhyme
Corona Discharges
...…spectral in the buzzing of it,
the fracturing of molecules,
splitting of sub-atoms,
snap-click of ozone,
particles of atmospheric implosion…
…and in the decimation of motes,
the microwaves o...
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Categories:
juddering, history, social,
Form: I do not know?