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Zen Death Haiku Ii
Today, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch  

This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...

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Categories: bolts, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form: Haiku



Salvage
"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping 
dissolved...

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Categories: bolts, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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Categories: bolts, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats 

“I love you...

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Categories: bolts, friendship, fun, happiness, journey, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight


The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me 
With my horse’s pace and that of...

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Categories: bolts, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme



Storm
The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds 
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bolts, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form: Imagism
Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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Categories: bolts, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monsters In the Sky
the sky erupts monsters
sky erupts monsters forming
erupts monsters forming wreaking
monsters forming wreaking havoc
forming wreaking havoc shattering
wreaking havoc shattering serenity
havoc shattering serenity bolts
shattering serenity bolts of
serenity bolts of hell
bolts of hell deluge
of hell deluge descending
hell deluge...

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© NJ Tomcatx  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bolts, dark, horror, nature, society, storm, surreal,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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Categories: bolts, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Storm Concrete
The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting 
     aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle 
         ...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bolts, school, storm,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...

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Categories: bolts, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All My Presidents
It is getting to the place where free speech is no longer free in America.                    ...

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Categories: bolts, america, presidents day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Kilo
Forever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...

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Categories: bolts, 11th grade,
Form: Alexandrine
Soul Rose Fulcrum
 my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread a  c  R    o   Ss 

skies unknown
            ...

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Categories: bolts, allegory, allusion, change, character, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Around Me
I woke up this morning form a puss nap to face the miserable day screaming in my back, I turned around to see who it was but I did not see anyone and suddenly my...

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Categories: bolts, beauty, character, cheer up, chocolate, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Constitution Street
Constitution Street is where the Devil Meet
On constitution Street you can find many thieves
Pick pockets, phone snatchers, and money grabbers
Wine bibbers, idle men and youth, 
Hanging around with their hands in their pockets
Looking for something...

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Categories: bolts, appreciation, beauty, character, courage, environment, heaven, political,
Form: Narrative
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only...

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Categories: bolts, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character, deep, fear, humanity,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls

I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven by poetic peers
It's truth from a life long-lived, too fast...

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Categories: bolts, beauty, dedication, emotions, life, lost love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Triumphant Victory Affirmations
 *Inspired By Jocko Willinks Triumphant Victory Affirmations/ I AM Victorious/ 
 Alpha Affirmations 


 O' Great Victory, How you have shined down upon thee
 On these Wings Of Triumph, So High, So Victorious, like...

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Categories: bolts, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MONSTERS
MONSTERS
Legends myths and old wives tales
From T.V film and book,
Are monsters real or fantasy
Let’s take a closer look.

Bram Stokers Dracula
The original vampire name,
Meant a simple walk just after dark
Was never the same again.

The late nineteenth...

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Categories: bolts, evil, fantasy, halloween, mystery, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Upon a dark and stormy night
Upon a dark and stormy night...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...

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Categories: bolts, absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form: Free verse
King of Kings: 91-172
11	Contracted in this state our marriage made
		And only far too late we recognize
		That gladly with Reptilian Flesh we’ve laid
		The veil torn away revealing eyes
		Of yellow flame exposéd we surmise
		Out from the darkened room these floating...

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Categories: bolts, metaphor,
Form: Epic
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...

Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason: 
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia. 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...

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Categories: bolts, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bench In the Labyrinth
Deep in a silva of the Emerald Isle there hides a peculiar coppice,
Shaped in a spiral labyrinth which is seen only on the summer solstice. 

As the sun rises to its highest of tides and...

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Categories: bolts, adventure, fairy, grandfather, ireland,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Stretching Integrity's Goodnews
I find at least one difference
between owning water and energy outright
and co-owning water and energy delivery systems,
transport infrastructures.

The latter is cooperatively optimal.
The former is resiliently impossible,
unsustainable hubris.

I also find it not necessarily true
that colonization can...

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Categories: bolts, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, parents, water,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things