unhappy lunch
...Unhappy lunch
I could sense as soon as we entered
the restaurant that was a family run business
there had been a turmoil in the kitchen
the servers were father and daughter who
normally work...
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Categories:
jut, allusion, angel, anger, anniversary,
Form: ABC
We Drink Ambrosia - Fugue
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we drink ambrosia from goblets within our Hearts
browline meets browline you drink your own
which dripped into mine hush hush the surfer
and soldier homed, drinking ambrosia hone...
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Categories:
jut, allegory, allusion, character, deep,
Form: Ballad
Anatomy Of The Leg
...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box
He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th...
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Categories:
jut, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Orange Season
...She hung fat on a citrus tree,
sprouting like a hip jut,
like the tall grass and itch weed.
The sweating sun drunk her up and splaid ‘er bare,
sliced her clean open before
the pecking birds co...
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Categories:
jut, 12th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Boston Ivy
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POTD~
In the misery of a paler grey nightfall
she blinks like citrine glazed along walls,
Ivy of Boston flaunts her shimmer without guilt
as palette of amber claims her lustrous glides
slit...
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Categories:
jut, passion, winter,
Form: Free verse
Skinned Alive
...We all get so used to touching skin, that a lot of times we forget how to feel it.
We forget what the texture is.
We lose the memory of praising every hair, every mole and freckle.
Skin is so soft...
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Categories:
jut, beautiful, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Falling Leaves
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A trellis of leaves flutters so naturally,
reams hanging free… timeless in a swirl
on the curving breasts of night. And they dance,
prance without restraint
onto altitudes of orbit...
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Categories:
jut, autumn, image,
Form: Free verse
Sparkling Jewels
...I look out of the window
and I am captured
by the gleaming grass
during the night
there was a heavy dew
now the world sparkles
precious jewels dot
bringing new life
to the land
I take a hand...
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Categories:
jut, nature,
Form: Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou...
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Categories:
jut, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
Corner
...A corner, a place that's often unseen.
A peripheral spot, could be where two walls.
convene.
It's a vantage point, from which we can ...
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Categories:
jut, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
What Trouble Tonight
...what trouble tonight?
the spill and spoilage of tray
exposing eight tiles
in a scrabble player’s game
she’d gone for coffee…and cheat?
who knocked it over?
the mischievous persian cat
tha...
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Categories:
jut, cat, games,
Form: Verse
Remebering the Root
...Some old wooden houses are deep,
they have porticos, piazza, loggia,
gables, and cupola.
There rooms are arboreal
they knot,
curl
and jut.
A memory rocks me gently
in its timbered embra...
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Categories:
jut, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Great Tree Wujue
...Great tree / strong limbs jut
Storm comes / hard wind howls
Marred lawn / haul vast bits
Sad view / folks wear scowls
May 18, 2023
For Let Us Rock Five - Wujue Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzett...
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Categories:
jut, tree,
Form: Jueju
Fallen
...On the edge of paradise,
woeful tears fall, cold as ice.
On that edge where I stand still,
ashen whips jut onto my will.
On that edge you sear my helm!
Kibble it like a spider; overwhelm!
Ste...
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Categories:
jut, angst, anxiety, dance, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Sixty Years, Oh My
...Skinny as Twiggy was in
Flat as a board
Not a millimeter sticking out
Not even her pout
Now it's all about curves
And 'bubble-butts'
Sticking out as far down there
As a...
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Categories:
jut, fashion, passion, women,
Form: Rhyme
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