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Premium Member The Fox
...Once a fox was lost in the field; No shelter, friends, nor food to yield! His fending hope has lastly keened, But stood once more when prey he gleaned... There he melded with flocks of sheep, ......

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Categories: keened, betrayal, words,
Form: Rhyme
Flute and Citole
...Her sound functioned in the chorus of onlooker in my defeat. Might the Strumb of Kokopelli danced to the songs of Shiva and Bragi. I smiled days later that my retribution might silence the cele......

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Categories: keened, appreciation, celebration, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade



Until Then
...An orison to hope Shattered into smithereens Its keened tongues and teeth gnash and lament A despairful cry of a cutthroat womb. Cacophonies cry out Cellos and violins bow, inexorable and unfo......

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Categories: keened, angst, bereavement, blessing, depression,
Form: Free verse
She For Her
...Her eyes were the ocean, And she didn't struggle them to shed, 'Cause she knew more seasons are ahead. She was aging in the plight, With wet eyes in the night. Realizing how hard could be a li......

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Categories: keened, abuse, boy, endurance, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fairies In My Garden
..."There are fairies at the bottom of my garden"...from a song by Noel Coward. In gardens, glens, and forest glades That oft great banquet halls resemble, On a summer's night, If the moon is br......

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Categories: keened, fairy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Braggadacio Rumplestiltskin
...Rumpelstiltskin was celebrating with glee around his fire Tomorrow he would have to wet nurse hire For he would have in his possession a royal child His life would no longer be meek and mild He......

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Categories: keened, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mother Who Thought She Had Failed
...Children came up missing but it never concerned her before. Two days after her son vanished, her feelings were churning Her world crashed when she realized he was not returning She had not paid ......

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Categories: keened, sad,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Peasant's Revenge, Part I
...The story begins when I was a young man, personal chirurgeon for Prince Malistare, when the Kingdom of Blenum faced rebellion in the west, among the peasants out there. The king sent an army, l......

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Categories: keened, class, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Epic
I Gave Birth To a Child
...In my dream, I gave birth to a child The doctor said that he would die quite soon My feelings overwhelming made me wild The Nazi doctor threw him on a pile I lay there unmoving as I keened ......

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Categories: keened, allegory, break up, destiny,
Form: Villanelle
I Gave Birth To a Child
...In my dream, I gave birth to a child The doctor said that he would die quite soon My feelings overwhelming made me wild The Nazi doctor threw him on a pile I lay there unmoving as I keened ......

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Categories: keened, allegory, break up, destiny,
Form: Villanelle
Hazel Tree Sonnet
...Hazel Tree Sonnet My wild subconscious mind has given me And I would seek to know what it intends In dream, the seeming of a hazel tree Please talk to me of hazel trees, my friends I keened ......

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Categories: keened, hope, inspiration, magic, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Garnish Queen
...On earth I know of no such taste, No nectar of the Gods so chaste, So pure, so gentle, full of grace; As my true love, tomato paste. Good “ketchup”, as you’re widely known W......

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Categories: keened, devotion, food, friendship, funny
Form: Verse
An Eye For An Eye For An Eye
...there are some parts of your personality you must never look at or Aristotle's logic will pay you a visit for a 15th century anatomy lesson an eye for an eye a throat for a throat gargoyle armie......

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Categories: keened, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Stratagem
...[an aria] Anticipation's keened And desire's as sharp as a knife; But longing is a fiend Who both lengthens and shortens life. I'm fed to the teeth with people tel......

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Categories: keened, art, change, emotions, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Willow In Time (Part 1)
...A Effigy in crystal abandoned in time fixed the twinkle shining crysolite eye gentleness shown by slant of her mouth Traveller’s stop lingering long whispering Softly of Willows sad song ......

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Categories: keened, fantasy, imagination
Form: Free verse

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