Vulcan's Mercy
...Hard-chromed and brutally alloyed
he fed the scrapyard hurricane.
Melting the metal, his brawn enjoyed
the splash of sweat cooling the pain.
The weight of the world discarded
at the foot of hi...
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Categories:
lethean, extended metaphor, loss, power,
Form: Quatrain
Elephant In the Room
...By: rontwigger
Never make believe that you do not see
That monstrous elephant in the room.
So you would be cleared in your doom,
Spread the sick beans of someone you'd never be.
Fuel not th...
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Categories:
lethean, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Where and When
...WHEN and WHERE
by: rontwigger
Oh, tell me where and when
We may see each other again.
The time sashayed fast
Amidst the universe so vast.
At the disco party when you were fourteen
While ...
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Categories:
lethean, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Limbo
...Six steeple towers, cold as steel, drab daggers in the sky!
Their hallowed halls no longer call when breezes wander by –
for, filled with dread to wake the dead, they've ceased to sough or sigh.
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Categories:
lethean, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
What You Do Not See Is Not Necessarily Not There
...I
Take out the caked grimy faucet plug
Let those unseen crawlies dive and duck
under the rust-ridden slime
stuck to phlegm and saliva globs
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Categories:
lethean, health, philosophy, care, care,
Form: Free verse
Silent City - Part 2
...Continued from Part 1
The City’s blur? A sepulcher for Christians, Muslims, Jews –
Cathedrals, Temples, vacant now, enshrine their residues,
for churches, mosques and synagogues abide without a ...
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Categories:
lethean, angst, life, night, silver,
Form: Rhyme
Viii
...The bottles of gin are all empty,
The pipes have long since been lit:
Where is the Lethean water that can truly make me forget?
Where is the perfect opiate that can stem the tide of regret?
You were...
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Categories:
lethean, loss,
Form: Elegy