Story
...I'm just writing my story
Leaving out all the glory
I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken
Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen
Would you read...
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Categories:
knavery, angst, deep, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Dabs of Paint - Blots of Ink
...Dabs of paint
Blots of ink
Challenging the world
To think
Reflect on texture
Tint and style
Acceptance, truth
Or full denial
Metaphoric words
That pierce
Trembling minds
Of those thoug...
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Categories:
knavery, art, character, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Delfin
...Delfin
Free Verse
SATURDAY, May 28 2022
When in this world you bade adieu
Leaving your siblings and family in sorrow
But here am i now, paying my last respect to you
Eleven years we haven'...
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Categories:
knavery, courage, death, faith, fate,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
knavery, metaphor,
Form: Monoku
Pondering a Winter Dusk
...I ride the bus...
Tilt a bit, balance-
ponder later. Yolk yellow
and sky blue, chalk
grey paint. Steel
rectangles; winding parallel
lines. Circles- Eternal.
Toothed horizons-
golden r...
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Categories:
knavery, allusion, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a Trilogy
...Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying li...
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Categories:
knavery, appreciation, art, birth, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing In the Celestial Glade
...
Dancing in the shade
Of the celestial glade
We're moonlit pioneers
Who overcame our fears
Bravery not knavery
In a cosmic soup so savory
Beauty is in crystalline flowers
And monoli...
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Categories:
knavery, courage, growth, happiness, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Unknown Affairs
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Unknown Affairs
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015
I feel,
Most hate and wrong, in the world
Can be traced indirectly to money;
Or the lack thereof;
But where does sorrow start...
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Categories:
knavery, heart, men,
Form: Free verse
Idols
...
When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile
Look at the newspaper
The government is a...
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Categories:
knavery, america, inspiration, political, spoken
Form: Free verse
Seahorses
...We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider cats: They school us in hygiene
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Categories:
knavery, fish, meaningful, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Morgan Harper Knavery
...Once a boy now a man
Morgan Harper Knavery had a plan
To be the first officer in an all girls band
Musica...
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Categories:
knavery, abuse, anxiety, assonance, lust,
Form: Limerick
Media Slime
...A bug trapped in amber.
Fossil flowers in a stone.
Sabre tooth caught in tar.
Iceman asleep in a glacier.
Nature doesn't care!
Nature makes no judgements,
cares not who you are,
drops yo...
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Categories:
knavery, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Barcelona
...Dear Barcelona
Bride of Spain
Mourn not precious jewel
For we are praying for you
We are praying for your children
That they may find favour in heaven.
Sea feliz!
To spite the devil's tri...
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Categories:
knavery, care, spanish, strength,
Form: Free verse
Friend Or Fake
...The treachery of a false friend
is sudden, cutting—always cruel;
his knavery observes no end
and he’ll use you like a drunk fool.
He’ll play you like a violin,
like a puppet on a tight string...
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Categories:
knavery, betrayal, friend, friendship, sin,
Form: Quatrain
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...
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Categories:
knavery, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
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