Lintel Poems

Premium Membermoonflower

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I …

am provenience …
the heel of my father’s foot -
the damp of his brow
and his burgeon …
I am my mother’s bloom
sown in the soil of her intentions
seeded with wonder
and promise …
but ...
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Categories: lintel, analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Psalm 83 War has only just begun part four

...What are the modern names of the nations of both the Edomites and the Ismaelites?
The modern nation of both the Moabites and the Ammonities is the nation of Jordan,
which directly boarders with Isr...
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Categories: lintel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberPretty Witty

...PRETTY  WITTY

                          Cocktail thirsty : Mocktail, Green tea.

                          Few Males naughty : Females pretty.

                           Toe nails: Twenty ;  ...
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Categories: lintel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

A Solitary Stranger

...A Solitary Stranger

Lonely a soul, he, waits there daylong, a lonely stranger, he
To knit the finest webs of dreams, one of the most delicate kinds.
Gazing, out there, with  brimming eyes he pon...
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Categories: lintel, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlood

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Without shed blood, no remission of sin, 
A lamb was killed to clothe Adam and Eve, 
On sides and lintel, Passover blood streaked, 
A token of redemption to the Jews, 
Animals' bloo...
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Categories: lintel, bible, jesus,
Form: Free verse


The Longest Night

...* Paid my heed my friends for the frost giants begin their march southwards, 
    * and their hounds of winter ,shall Slather and bay awaiting direction from their masters
    * as then ,
    * th...
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Categories: lintel, allegory, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse

The Former Tennent

...It abides in the lintel, leaving only
to hunt in the klong.
It was here when we moved in,
we are the renting guests 
living under a large Monitor lizard.

Dawn coffee on the loggia,
the jungle...
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Categories: lintel, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Neotabalith

...Before the last of the Ancients from Eden had returned to death ,
It was decided that with  their direction and wisdom Stones of meaningful proportion and weight should be used to measure the cosmic...
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Categories: lintel, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Neo Tabalith

...Before the last of the Ancients from Eden had returned to death ,
It was decided that with  their direction and wisdom Stones of meaningful proportion and weight should be used to measure the cosmic...
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Categories: lintel, allegory, birth, culture,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberRavenous

...RAVENous

Wickedly,
dressed in black satin,
corseted with passerine-ego —
she dares
the dawn to interrupt her feast,
afterall, SHE is the Queen!
beheading of the smallest of things,
t...
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Categories: lintel, bird,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sundial

...Sundial
My passion is the silent weather vane
The gambrel brought such sorrow
Much I marveled this roughcast cairn
Eagerly I looked for the lintel

I have dreamed of the clocks
Eag...
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Categories: lintel, adventure, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse

Torn From Weeping

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torn from weeping
tears inside out
storms come creeping
fears denied doubt
lesson me to read
teach me lovely
chair me to sit
tongue me mental
march my brains
with lintel flint
sp...
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Categories: lintel, art,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberThe Dying Wasp

...She vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and switchboards.

She isn't program...
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Categories: lintel, insect, technology,
Form: Imagism

Est Est Est, Part 2 of 2

..."Just take this chalk," (so went his talk, 
to servants sent before): 
"And do not balk. When you uncork 
good liquor, mark the door." 

This way, the churchman planned to pass, 
when pausing f...
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Categories: lintel, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberConcrete Arch - Pi In the Sky

...The humble arch, so simple, so profound, so powerful
                     The arch is Pi in the sky, a curved concrete crescent
                                    Supporting span of bridge or lint...
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Categories: lintel, strength,
Form: Concrete

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