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 out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
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 out, passion, winter,
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 out, autumn, image,
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 out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
The Witch's Head
...Nimbus green witch with gold eyes and jut out chin
and nimbus hood-like, held high and out taut neck;
Nimbus scuds a cosmos turn, from Salem be
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Categories:
jut out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sapphic stanza
How Odd Are Otters
...Are otters so odd?
In Old English
Their name means 'water'
And it really ought to
As they live near the river or sea
Are otters so odd?
They sing like canaries
With clear voices
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Categories:
jut out, animal, cat, dog, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Light Keeper
...Deep down his lungs, a full baritone trills
Coughing out for all to hear, "Be safe,
Wayfarers until the sea is clear; "
As transient gulls flit below sail boats
Navigating the haza...
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Categories:
jut out, light, strength,
Form: Free verse
Jackal
...Jungle's deadly wolf roams,
Jaws tightening as limbs
Jut out from black of night;
Jeering its prey for one
Joust between man and beast:
Jingling its canine paws,
Jolts rip a hunter's flesh!
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Categories:
jut out, animal, strength,
Form: Verse
Sis
...Towards the moonlight, he glances out the window.
Never wanted this, but, if the pain goes away...it works.
He pulled the slightly rusted, yet glinting, object from its obscure hiding place.
The l...
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Categories:
jut out, depression, pain, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Flinty Mystery
...Some rocks jut out jagged spears
or cut back into dark caverns
like a skeleton's yawning scream.
Others show their faces—smooth
as a woman's breast—tumbled,
contoured, and polished
by a raging...
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Categories:
jut out, change, creation, mystery, science,
Form: Rhyme
Third Planet From the Sun, Number 2
...Some rocks may crumble into lifeless sand
or drift like shifty grit beneath my arch,
while others face the elements and stand
as guard against the ocean's forward march.
Some rocks jut out; cut b...
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Categories:
jut out, environment, mystery, planet,
Form: Sonnet
Third Planet From the Sun
...Some rocks may crumble into lifeless sand
or drift like shifty grit beneath my arch,
while others face the elements and stand
as guards against the ocean's forward march.
Some rocks jut out; cu...
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Categories:
jut out, earth, rainbow, sea, planet,
Form: Sonnet
Wave of Solace
...Slitting my eyes from a world pining
for a refuge where the wave of solace
touches hours' depth in celtic notes,
I turn into gentle bones fluid and chaste…
my illumined flames taste the p...
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Categories:
jut out, light, peace, poetess,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bedtime Magic
...BEDTIME MAGIC
Sprawled under nightscape of galaxy bright
Tiny sequins pulse on blaze of luster,
A beaded stars nova bursts on flight
Into a full-blown montage...
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Categories:
jut out, fantasy, happiness, magic, uplifting,
Form: Acrostic
Blackened Ocean Waters
...Blackened ocean waters
At the setting of the sun
Golden sand decorates the beach
A beacon for all to come
Dangerous black towering rocks
Jut out from the shore
As the darken clouds reflect
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Categories:
jut out, imagination, inspirational, nature, sea
Form: Rhyme
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