Smog of Vampyric Fume
...a smog of vampyric fume
i walk into! with poison-darts
and with mana of fire as weapons
i penetrate the rugged soil of foe.
my longbow of the Scythians hangs on my back
and two ...
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Categories:
longbow, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Big Swelled Drum Sound Within Empty Inner
...Draper to dram shop, loops
Drains loves to clean draggle tails,
Draws well done the longbow,
Diarrhea of dusty words
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Categories:
longbow, bullying, fishing, hate, words,
Form: Free verse
Old Sailor's Heartfelt Plea To Lost Love
...Old Sailor's Heartfelt Plea To Lost Love
Thou hast torn fine sails from anchored ship's mast
In harbor previously thought true safe.
Thy sudden change has left my heart aghast
now thy poison ar...
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Categories:
longbow, art, creation, grief, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Cygnus Olor
...Chaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds ...
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Categories:
longbow, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Rites of Spring
...Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
Sunshin...
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Categories:
longbow, spring, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
The Squire
...A young squire set off
through the dark woods
he was on his way to town
to find adventure and fun
When he was set upon by villains
bravely he fought them off
his sword now blood-red
on toward the to...
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Categories:
longbow, horse, journey, love, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Flare To the Heavens
...Flare to the heavens
Fired by a goddess’s longbow
Igniting a great passion
She says we should meet
At the hills above her feet
Where billowing clouds reside
Russell Sivey...
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Categories:
longbow, life,
Form: Sedoka
The Longbow Archer
...“Laws of the land enslave our people”
-Robin Hood
Sunlight glances off the flint tip
As justice swims through the air
The belly of the bow st...
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Categories:
longbow, political,
Form: Free verse
In a Garden In May
...beneath all the war stricken tumbleweed burrows
lies a maiden
of faith
her longbow is golden with platinum arrows
and somewhere to someone this woman belongs
her present is tainted with hints ...
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Categories:
longbow, allegory, romance, war
Form: Free verse
Apache
...The Cobra sleeps
As the Apache AH-64D awakens
This attack helicopter
Delivers the forsaken
With it's tandem cockpit
Reverse-tricycle landing gear
At the forefront of theatre
It's enemy will ...
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Categories:
longbow, war
Form: Quatrain
Maiden's Moonlit Plight
...A scream awoke those in the churchyard,
a mad scream from the maiden lain there
From death she awoke in the dark crypt
From cold death and so full of despair.
Shrouded she’d lain ‘pon altar of ...
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Categories:
longbow, fantasydeath, death,
Form: Ballad
Where Together, We Stood
...Magic can never be undone
This is the way
Of stars
Of magic
Of me
My journey with Aquila
Has begun
We left that dark wood
Where together
We stood
We fought
The Wraiths’ night
My Aqui...
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Categories:
longbow, love
Form: Ballad
Aquila and I
...I rode with Aquila
Across the meadows
Through the trees
His love,
Is all I need
That I chose
A man
That carried a longbow
In that clearing
I stepped in from the night
Summer night...
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Categories:
longbow, love
Form: Ballad
The Stain of the Night
...They came at night
Just before dawn
Moondust awoke
I heard the wraiths’ shrieking cries
Faeries’ magic to invoke
Longbow drawn
I kissed my Moondust
Then back to back
We w...
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Categories:
longbow, imagination, inspirational, lovelove,
Form: Ballad
That Evil Can Seep
...Across the bridge
In to the depths
Of the other side
I felt the faint prickle
Of something
Not alive
Moondust felt it too
Of cold winds
Tattered cloaks
Blowing throug...
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Categories:
longbow, imagination, inspirational, love
Form: Ballad
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