Poetry's Soup
...Stumbling along the worn down pine,
Clamoring like a babe against floor and a table leg
I found the stool to shame all other stools.
Propping my bony bottom atop
Like a laggardly old lion,
Don...
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Categories:
laggardly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
September
...September rains; springs spout, rivers fleetly flow to sea
New memories commence as old ones laggardly fade away
Septembers, one new daughter born; a father buried.
Remember September Poetry...
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Categories:
laggardly, memory, september,
Form: Sijo
The Third World War
...It's midnight and perhaps late April,
The gunshots thundered sporadically across the roof,
Suddenly, an awkward silence crammed all the rooms.
Favour Akachukwu Onyekachi ran to the lavatory for sa...
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Categories:
laggardly, anxiety, war,
Form: Free verse
Fate's Occasion
...Singular and thus finite
begins the spiral's spinning plight
of eminent foretold collision
love commences in a vision
Unbeknownst before the time
an effigy that burns the mind
now filters clear, emo...
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Categories:
laggardly, beautiful, beauty, emotions, image,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Mountain Lake Inspiration
...Mountain Lake is my favorite place to write
under shade tree are my pencil, paper, and pole.
Scribble down words while waiting for a bite
fishing my most popular angling hole.
Fish are jumping ...
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Categories:
laggardly, fishing, inspiration, tree, words,
Form: Quatrain
Mountain Lake Inspiration
...Mountain Lake is my favorite place to write
under shade tree are my pencil, paper, and pole.
Scribble down words while waiting for a bite
fishing my most popular angling hole.
Fish are jumping ...
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Categories:
laggardly, adventure, funny, tree,
Form: Light Verse
A Moonlight Stroll
...Today I awoke with a heavy soul,
Wondering if you would dine with me,
Then later took a moonlight stroll.
We will watch the ducklings on patrol,
Perched quietly under the willow tree,
Today I ...
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Categories:
laggardly, loss, love
Form: Villanelle
Lead Us Not Into Temptation.
...What shall I do tomorrow...and tomorrow...
Wretched is Macbeth although I am as he;
The blood drips too laggardly from the-
Cherry tree, and-
I become silent ~
The stench of cologne on your shir...
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Categories:
laggardly, confusion, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Dramatic Verse
God Is a Bullet.
...Abruptly it’s ended in a smite act so senseless
The crucifixion of Amy has finally ceased
No more trepid slumbering with one eye open
The cycle fulfilled in a moment’s release
This future no lo...
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Categories:
laggardly, angst, confusion, death, life,
Form: Verse