Mouldy Fear Fugue
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she drinks mouldy fear in morning
the morning needing vit C vit C
team Alice alliterates twig pieces to be
to be sprouting green leaves true blue
sweeping bits onto dustpan hu...
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Categories:
lubricate, allusion, character, community, extended
Form: Ballad
Love, Lubricant Of The Soul, Emollient Of The Heart
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Love is the lubricant of the soul and the emollient of the heart, both
Unguent and viscous, it glides like butter in the summer heat
Banish it from your life and sudde...
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Categories:
lubricate, analogy,
Form: Acrostic
Return My Tears
...for : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date : 27/5/25
Placed : 4th : multiple
RETURN MY TEARS
The darkened sk...
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Categories:
lubricate, allegory, allusion, character, color,
Form: Rhyme
Along With The Thunder
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Along with the Thunder
came Tempestas, goddess of storms
turtle doves scattered on
corrugated roof, grey feathers flying when glimpsing her fierce amber countenance
this is time of rattlin...
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Categories:
lubricate, allegory, cat, character, color,
Form: Free verse
Snot Man Blue Part 3, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
...CONT from Part 2
Snot Man Blue Part 3
Sick with guilt Snot Man Blue
quit his job there.
Sick with failure he ran away.
He couldn’t face his parents there or anywhe...
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Categories:
lubricate, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Thirsty
...Come to me..
And I will quench.
Umbrella free..
And I will drench.
Fill your rivers..
Every one.
Morning grass..
I rest upon.
Cut the rock
In Canyon Grand.
Cool you as
Your skin is f...
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Categories:
lubricate, river, sea, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Tears
...Is it to lubricate and protect my eyes from your flow?
Or do you intend to bring out my joy, sorrow, and rage?
By your stream-like flow to others, you show my grief, I know.
A parrot in your cage,...
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Categories:
lubricate, cry,
Form: Sonnet
The Answer
...I can see the strange look in your eyes when you walked through the door; I see the strange look on your face when you see the children running all over the place. Urgency is trembling on your lips a...
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Categories:
lubricate, analogy, appreciation, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
...Ah... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.
While scrolling thru
poems crafted y...
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Categories:
lubricate, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Cherry Tree Music Co-Op
...Cherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous *****
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
in...
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Categories:
lubricate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Thirsty : 1600
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Come to me..
And I will quench.
Umbrella free..
And I will drench.
Fill your rivers..
Every one.
Morning grass..
I rest upon.
Cut the rock
In Canyon Grand.
Cool you as
Your skin is...
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Categories:
lubricate, christian, creation, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 25
...The shield riders heading over the Dunlaven bridge,
They ride as swift as the wind,
already their weapons were ready,
they did glint, not, in the deepening shadow.
Ride to your fate Valkyrie,
sh...
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Categories:
lubricate, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Prognosis
...and then the spirit of the world had eyes
he tuned the future and in him what was light
it was just the glow of the scales of the hours
and in everything that we have for matter today
he felt ...
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Categories:
lubricate, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
People
...Grease machines often,
If you want them to run well,
Lubricate with oil.
Lubricate people,
With oil of kindness and praise,
For the same result....
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Categories:
lubricate, humanity,
Form: Senryu
Poetry Machine
...Whirr! Clank! Buzz! Clunk!
The gears of my brain seize up,
No longer meshing.
No inspirations, no images appear.
No lofty thoughts, ideas
Tumbling over each other waiting
To be brought to life....
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Categories:
lubricate, inspiration, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
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