Propinquity - First Place Contest Winner
...Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
In the orbit of ne...
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Categories:
kindreds, analogy, appreciation, care, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Alice Assaulted An Antelope
...Amazingly, Alice assaulted an antelope
Because Bobby’s beavers became bold,
Considering cantilevered canines
Deliberately devastating donor’s doled.
Evelyn entirely excited electric eels
Faili...
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Categories:
kindreds, fantasy, fun, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
What a Trip
...All abroad! Amazing airplane aims above Asia ascending at an ample airline.
Bestowing big buildings, busy businesses, beautiful beaches...
Camera captures candid cascading countryside.
Dozen dande...
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Categories:
kindreds, nature, travel, vacation, world,
Form: Alliteration
Apocalypse
...Orwell saw it coming
The giant apparatus of the state
Taking control of the people
Surveying the lives
Of a fearful and compliant multitude.
In the Apocalypse it is written
That a beast sh...
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Categories:
kindreds, bible, earth, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
Every Tongue Shall Confess Yes Even the Atheist- -
...Why? should I believe in
Where is he can't see him
Where is he no one loves me
I am hurting why won't he stop the pain
I don't believe in him this god or your jesus
Why cause I'm an ...
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Categories:
kindreds, analogy, angst, anxiety, atheist,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Prophets
...The great mouthpieces of God.
Laying down, establishing the Iron rod.
Testifying witnesses of Christ,
Giving their lives to proclaim His sacrifice.
These are some of the mantle duties,
Of prop...
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Categories:
kindreds, religion,
Form: Free verse
Men Die, Time Dies Faster
...MAN;
I was all doom and gloom in the zoom
when the past second died,
A man surely has kicked the bucket
I was told, but I shan't believe
If so, when will I give up the ghost?
Fear;
Th...
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Categories:
kindreds, bereavement,
Form: I do not know?
Carcass of a Mammothrept
...Honoured is our kin
fed with a sliver spoon
bred and reared in Elysium.
Swith is he, an ironic typhoean _
(he 'l be)- Our immerse hero..
So will he slump a thousand times
but not like a coward...
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Categories:
kindreds, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Thirteenth Zodiac
...Night of solstice
On a hot and humid June
The covenant of sisters
Gazing at the signs from the stony mound
On a night where comets fled the sky
We are sisters
We are Kindreds
Sacred daughte...
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Categories:
kindreds, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Kindreds
...I DON'T KNOW
By the village tree
Sat its simpatico kinsmen
Gathered under Solomon's shadow
Smoking pipe of tobacco leave
Telling tales of women
While waxing crafty willows
In their proclivit...
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Categories:
kindreds, africa, brother, culture, family,
Form: I do not know?
Stains of Blood
...STAINS OF BLOOD
I heard the cries from far away
The sounds of anguish all the way
The tears had flowed like Tsunami floods
A plague has led our land awry
Scenes of passionate rages re...
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Categories:
kindreds, death, horror, sorry, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Haiku - Heaven, Hell, Or Purgatory, Your Choice
...Sometimes I just like
to have fun with syllables
and call it haiku
Seventeen is big
number in my family
stuff happens that age
Epilepsy for
one, then there's eye surgery
two don't forget how
cutti...
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Categories:
kindreds, on writing and words,
Form: Haiku