Tarnished Gold
...Shayura:
“I dreamt my body was dull gold and rotted, fickle grace abandoned me, yet scattered, I reforged my essence through brilliance and incandescence, allotting my time – I dared to dream again....
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Categories:
lidded, beautiful, imagery, inspirational love,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Death I Dream
...An hour past midnight,
She rushed out of the head-storming library,
With a numb body, she drove hard, pretending he no longer mattered.
Still he ignored her, as always.
Till, the silent, desert...
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Categories:
lidded, crush, cry, death, deep,
Form: Narrative
Sappho Translations XII
...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch
In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th...
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Categories:
lidded, beautiful, beauty, girl, happiness,
Form: Free verse
recycle
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if we live our lives, by the 4r rule
this world we just might save...and cool
when it has a triangle then put in
the great big yellow...lidded bin
first recycle paper, bottles and the can
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Categories:
lidded, environment,
Form: Couplet
Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."
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Categories:
lidded, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Prayers from the Living
...It whips legs, spins minds in a tumbler.
roars with the discarded clothes
of mad clowns.
Bundles of fine bones and twirling feathers
burst apart in a random turmoil,
deer swim toward a gasping...
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Categories:
lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Grocery shopping with mum
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It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon. You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick. It takes you ten minutes to get into the car. You ne...
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Categories:
lidded, mother son, mothers day,
Form: Prose
Goodbye and good riddance 2023
...Goodbye and good riddance 2023
Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.
The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and
albeit...
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Categories:
lidded, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Hide Out
...Hiding out my soul,
in Carles’ Happy Flamingo,
feeling too small
to be larger than life.
She was a tattooed lamp and
shape-shady,
willing to go down
for the wrong guy.
I bought her a drin...
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Categories:
lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
GOLD AND BLOOD
...GOLD AND BLOOD
Mantis eyes magnetised her sister’s heart
felt its imprisoned glint of gold
willed it to enlarge into a
lotus leaf upon a sea
It float...
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Categories:
lidded, color, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Seasons
...He smells the passion and perfume,
the mild and manic moments
of a young love.
Here comes a ragged flight of crows;
he squints in the cold sunlight.
Blue shadows glimmer and glint.
He has a...
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Categories:
lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.
Sentimentali...
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Categories:
lidded, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind
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"Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind
post apocalypse
the mother
sought the assistance
of Blue Avians.
when it came to
eggs stolen from a nest
who better than ...
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Categories:
lidded, muse, psychological, symbolism, war,
Form: Narrative
Night's Abandon
...Heavy lidded
Quiet and still, blurring
Visions with inklings
Of slumber, laboring
To breathe dreams
Through the embrace
Of comforting sheets
In colors of soft light
Lavender and pink
Blushin...
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Categories:
lidded, dream, night, silence, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Fireside Stories
...I remember a boy child
who thrilled to hear dark
ghost stories
Told around a crackling fire
circle of faces
looking
imaging down
heavy lidded
in toward suggestive
face drawn shadows
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Categories:
lidded, fear, feelings, gender, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
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