The Grand Town of Macroom
...Along the Muskerry Light Railway
One can watch the flowers bloom
It will not be much longer now
’Til the old town of Macroom
Arriving at the station
Collecting bags from overhead
To depart I ...
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Categories:
lodgings, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Winter's Empress
...
Her adorned stars, crackling overhead
like embers in a fireplaced
-sweat-stones of heavenly sky lodge.
The bottomless pit of lipstuck warp ighs, ...
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Categories:
lodgings, art,
Form: Rhyme
Mind
...Mind; that nebulous cloud,
is not what we suppose it to be.
It is not between our ears or eyes,
that is merely a rented room.
Its lodgings are everywhere.
Mind may reside in a starry h...
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Categories:
lodgings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Temporary Lodgings
...Incineration; it is his living wish.
The urn will be a plain oblong box,
He will be boxed.
The wooden package will be sent
as only a temporary accommodation,
not a place of rest or...
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Categories:
lodgings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hamadryad
...All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.
Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers may never know,
Fo...
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Categories:
lodgings, 12th grade, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
A Handful of Haiku: Autumn
...I
Summer has moved out
Of temporary lodgings
Fall's lease begins
II
Harvest moon, frosty
Nights, leaves changing hues to show
Autumn's here again...
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Categories:
lodgings, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
...It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa in his sle...
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Categories:
lodgings, love,
Form: Free verse
The Storm and the Sea
...She sits at a window,
that faces the park
the daylight is fading,
to almost dark.
It’s almost deserted
as people return
to their flats and houses
to find the warm.
She glimpses through rain...
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Categories:
lodgings, dark, emotions, feelings, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Impressions From An Alien
...A kaleidoscope of shapes and colors
Flash through my mind, myriads of magic,
Impressions coloring this mystical world
That is the future, another place in time
Calling to me with voices from sile...
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Categories:
lodgings, fantasy, future, space, voyage,
Form: Blank verse
Elephant In the City
...Every few weeks he would move
from one rented room to another.
He and his tartan suitcase
would travel one stop
on the London Underground
to find a corner shop.
Corner shops
were where ele...
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Categories:
lodgings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Night In Somnia
...I spent a night in Somnia
which put me to the test
The lodgings were luxurious
but I could find no rest
They said it was a quiet town
I fell for all their ploys
And all the stupid sheep I tri...
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Categories:
lodgings, humor, sleep, word play,
Form: Rhyme
One Night In a Haunted Manor-
...I was a wayward traveler on Interstate 15 (I-15) near Mexico
Traveling at night–Creepy,spooky, eerie on US border in San Diego County
Tired and sleepy I looked for lodgings, shelter didn't know wh...
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Categories:
lodgings, adventure, allusion, analogy, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
Past Nightfall
...On Halloween, I heard of a guesthouse
advertising stays in a haunted house.
Spend one night, get a year's lodgings for free,
I was sure it was mere hyperbole.
Its decrepit looks failed ...
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Categories:
lodgings, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Ride
...The lamp outside my lodgings cut through fog of dirty grey,
I donned my coat and hat ready to start another day.
The sound of hooves on cobbles meant my transport was at hand
I stepped onto the pa...
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Categories:
lodgings, car,
Form: Rhyme
Tough Lodgings
...The rough sleepers
keeping diaries of
near misses and
misadventures
staying alone and alive
living on their wits
eschewing assistance
except
from the social and
the occasional good
Sama...
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Categories:
lodgings, care, god, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
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