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Premium Member The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Categories: boney, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Interview With the Most Beautiful Suicide
Interview with The Most Beautiful Suicide -Evelyn Francis McHale - May 1, 1947

So Evelyn, yours is one of the most famous of suicides, since you chose to jump from the Empire State Building in 1947,...

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Categories: boney, suicide,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Dark Dialogue Pt3 of 3pts
I. a dark awakening

Shuddering awake feeling the freezing cold fingers still around my throat, struggling to catch my breath struggling to focus.

Finding my air. Shaking myself awake, shaking fragments of dreams from my mind, imagery...

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Categories: boney, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dandelion Woman
Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman
the original wild flower!
I go where I want to go
I grow where I want to grow —
don't matter if   y o u   say no

dandelion wine...

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Categories: boney, beauty, conflict, courage, endurance, life, metaphor, woman,
Form: Free verse
A Winters Tale
The bones of winter cracked the ice black, coal black night.
A hoary wind spits frost crystals that dazzle and blur the sight.
Boney fingers of bare deciduous wood, scratch against the eaves
as the stranger's tread crackles...

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© John Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boney, christmas, december, humanity, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Golden Pen
Lightly the rain falls upon the lamp lit streets, the shabbily dressed figure
Walks with an air of uncertainty down the cobbled stone streets, leaning,
On his rickety cane, the elderly gentleman huddles beneath his umbrella Of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boney, celebrity, dark, farewell, fear, halloween, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nomad
The wails that disturb very few in their bed
Reach only the ears of the psychic… or dead

                  ...

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Categories: boney, death, devotion, love, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Winter - a Hard Place
A damp, dank odour pervades the saturated forest; pungent. acrid;
The stench an assault on the human senses:
Working subtly, slowly permeating every pore until it compromises the very heart of the forest.

Seeping easily between the debris;...

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Categories: boney, animal, appreciation, bird, dedication, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Angels of Highgate
Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.  
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...

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Categories: boney, death,
Form: Sestina
The Haunted House
The Haunted House
  
So vacuous this winding road
A rainy eve for man, not fit
As shivers course my dampened skin
My vehicle, this place does quit

When through the pines these eyes do spy
A silhouette of monstrous...

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Categories: boney, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Infinite Blue, Pirate's Abandon01
memories
vast x-pan(d)s
BLue
Symbullic Prower
each let-ter numb
my hands
my oh my
the seimene

cognizance 
WHHO?

its all backwards
the wizard? states plainly

you should grow your hair long and sail the sea once more
with a handshake and a heavy chest being loaded onto...

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Categories: boney, adventure, analogy, art, baptism, beach, best friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Rocknroll Oldies Narrative
July 4, 1961

           Well HELLO MARY LOU, 

You won’t believe this but I just HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE that someone else was 
getting a...

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Categories: boney, nostalgia, satire, song-lyricdance, me, dance, love, me,
Form: Narrative
Benny Rafter
Awakened by a noise from in the attic floor,
		Your adrenaline says it may be something more;
		Darkness echoes a disturbingly different sound:
		Rocking on attic floorboards slowly up, then down; 
		
		Whatever be next be warned not to...

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© Jim Bolone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boney, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Legend of Leap Castle
THE LEGEND OF LEAP CASTLE

In the dark shadows of the ancient past,
Creatures move within the kingdom of darkness,
Hidden illusions of faded forms of existence, roaming the hallowed
Halls in echoing’s of delusions, royal tombs shudder beneath
The...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boney, evil, halloween, history, holiday, horror, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse
Imag1ne pt 1
Imagine waiting for something or maybe it’s someone. Someone you look for in everyone you pass by but not someone that is easy to find. Everytime you pass by these people you look at their...

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Categories: boney, 11th grade, depression, fate, solitude,
Form: Free verse
How Do You Feel
Ethan, did you fix that fence?
and strip that door?
you're losing your sense.
you've hit the floor.
so, how do you feel?
so far from home.
like a complete unknown.
how do you feel?
yes, how do you feel......ethan?

George, did you finish...

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Categories: boney, family, history, journey, life, music, simple, society,
Form: Ballad
Dark Blight of Halloween Night
There was a dense fog upon the land
not a fit night for animal nor man...
the moon did change its silvery view 
replacing it now was a blood red hue....

There just beyond thicket of the marsh...

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Categories: boney, dark, children, halloween, holiday, imagination, mystery, night,
Form: Free verse
A Messanger From Hell
I am sitting in my light brown leather reclining chair
after a strenuous day at my office glad to be home
no more stress no wife just my dog Bandit at my side
I'm holding in my right...

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Categories: boney, angst, confusion, death, faith, imagination, life, dog,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Postface Interlude
evening mist curls
slowly up the rugged path
pondering life journey

The old man sat quietly. He was pensively weighing his actions and the balance of right and wrong in his life.  Finally realizing there were better...

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Categories: boney, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Girl On the Moon
F a n t a s y
sold on a 50’s bottle cap; 
a party-girl side-saddle sits
on a double-edged crescent moon
up high —a silver scythe in glamour-night sky
corners of her cherry mouth upturned
her right hand raises...

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Categories: boney, abuse, addiction, drug, lost, pain, sad, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Thirty Minutes
The old man sat quietly. He was pensively weighing his actions and the balance of right and wrong in his life.  Finally realizing there were better things to do he simply told God he...

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Categories: boney, age,
Form: Haibun
The Man and Boney Fingers the Story
He was a well statured man I dated briefly, finding my way to the place where my Dad was born in the twenties and then crying for the foothills where I grew up such a...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boney, abuse, caregiving, cat,
Form: Prose
The Tale Beyond the Sketch
She is the sketch, never looked nice,incomplete and the loner.
She never glowed like princesses,
always at the back raw
and was never expected to bloom like Gerbera daisies.
She is just the sketch

with her peers she played and...

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Categories: boney, anxiety, art, beauty, character, emotions, how i
Form: Abecedarian
Embers Red With Yellow Fear
Firelight ghost stories entertain the dark starless evening. Young eyes plead, tell me a ghost story please!

On a dark moonless, starless night much darker than this night, four young teenagers were cruising in dad's car...

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Categories: boney, adventure, holiday, mystery, old, dark, car, dark,
Form: Light Verse
Burning: a Dream In Madness
Burning snow falls quietly on
cold rusted wire and brittle bone.
An ancient creature looks to the horizon 
feeling is body built of razor wire and old bones, cold,
a delicate tone transmits from on far...
Wraiths walking in...

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Categories: boney, abortion, allegory, allusion, analogy, art, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

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