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Winter, 1948
WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]

for W.W

The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...

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Categories: headless, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage...

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Categories: headless, dark, evil, scary,
Form: Haibun
Macabiloquent Mastery
As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...

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Categories: headless, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jerusalem, the Jugular -2
It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and mercy
for I have seen and dealt the damage of rude...

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Categories: headless, history,
Form: Epic
In the Minds Fixed Eye
VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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Categories: headless, myth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Through Their Eyes
Through Their Eyes

The Poetry Murders Part 3 in the series

Murder She Wrote

It was a dark night with a full moon
The alley narrow, my hopes high
My footsteps echoed in the ears of the invisible
I quicken my...

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Categories: headless, funny, grave, hilarious, history, imagery, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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: headless, evil, fantasy, halloween, mystery, myth,
Form: Rhyme
A Pool of Blood
Blood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...

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Categories: headless, change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form: Free verse
The Midnight Crown
The silent night walks like a freighted man in boots, and penetrates the head of the living dead while they lay down in silence to sleep. Not a sound could be heard except for the...

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Categories: headless, absence, adventure, beach, beautiful, beauty, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
Inferno In the Skies
She has been planning this vacation for more than a year, she has so much love to share, she could not get any of it so she has to give away all of it. Sometimes...

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Categories: headless, adventure, business, courage, cry, family, fire, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Meet Me At the Cemetery
Meet at the Cemetery
This is where I live
Meet me at the cemetery to make your final bid
One suitcase and one long gown
This is where I am bound
Bones and bones meet  with bones
Dead bones, dried...

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Categories: headless, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, character, community, confusion,
Form: Narrative
Still stunned with disbelief
Still stunned with disbelief...

that our apartment unit B44
received thumbs up
meaning that we passed
the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection
three days ago - May 28th, 2024.

About a week prior,
when notification circulated
(validating horror about to befall us
as averred...

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Categories: headless, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration, humorous, may,
Form: Free verse
The Fire, the Flood
You’re the headless horseman running on half a heart 
You shouldn’t know where to go but you just do 
And you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached to you 
Lost puzzle pieces, collecting dust,...

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Categories: headless, anger, betrayal, hate, how i feel, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Best of Fiends
Whatever rules they make up now in twenty-twenty-one
‘Little’ Frankie tells his dad I need to have some fun
His dad said how about a pet, I’ve just embalmed a pup
But Frankie moaned I’m sorry but I...

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Categories: headless, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Apple Tree
The little stall stands behind the black dilapidated wall whose bricks have been showing years of stained motion welled up inside the folly of man. The destiny of the wall speaks to the nature of...

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Categories: headless, betrayal, community, confidence, corruption, england, environment, future,
Form: Narrative
Checkmate
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...

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Categories: headless, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Mining Meteors


(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple beam, sale, cine-scene-
totem of hierarchial Archangels of Destruction of Kingdom...

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Categories: headless, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saul's Spite of David
*Image of David and Saul issued by Public Domain as it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1926.
Saul's Spite Of David

I may not be the chosen, say Samuel, man...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: headless, angst, evil, hero, jealousy, sin, song, youth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Big Stage
Here I am standing on the empty stage looking at all the shadows around me, shadows of the past, shadows of the present and shadows of the future. They appear from all corner of the...

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Categories: headless, appreciation, celebration, community, environment, funeral, gender, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Headless Tree
I lie on a giant rock in the middle of the river bed
staring at the tree without a head
Dry stump shooting above me
Inviting one another into  their bed
Their nude bodies pressing against each other
hugging...

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Categories: headless, change, community, courage, metaphor, moving on, water,
Form: Narrative
Empire Emphatically Enforces Exercise
Fitness guru (grew)
     to an abrupt screeching halt,
     i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
     I formerly did allocate
(within recent past)
 ...

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Categories: headless, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, fate,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Scenes: the First Gladiators of Rome
i.
At the centre of the world:
Back in the Roman days of yore--
A voice echoed, that decreed
To a crowd of commons, lost and unsure:

"Our rivers run dried, the Wrath of Gods,
Needs must be pacified
By human blood,...

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Categories: headless, historymen, rose,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Nightmare Disposal
There are skeletons in the wardrobe but they’re home and dry

Looked after properly moth balled and yet unkindly falling apart

Conscience is layered just as are subconscious wishes and fears

Sometimes I play with the bones and...

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Categories: headless, night,
Form: Free verse
Devil For Sale
in my nightmare the lights cut
asked a question of wether or not
we dream the realities we are destined and doomed to live
sweeping under the truth of this dirty rug
i ponder to myself
a soul to hold
what...

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Categories: headless, fantasydream, april, dream, me, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Taken Hostage In the Town
Bullets are flying over my head, forcing me to take cover under the headless bed, mothers running with their children, hiding behind the Vail where honor is found and misery is lying solemnly on the...

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Categories: headless, boat, career, community, conflict, courage, international, judgement,
Form: Narrative

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