Is Friendship Just a Delusional Fiction
...Is Friendship Just a Delusional Fiction?
Is friendship a lifeboat that floats on convenience?
Can we all divorce who we like with a gesture
that’s less than a wave on a l...
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Categories:
mainsails, friendship love, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ku Kops Klan
...With fascist fist, white CHAUVINist (whose christian name is Drek)
hailed pearly Knights in Kevlar tights who spurn the ebon fleck,
and joined the Kops enforcing stops which keep black pawns in che...
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Categories:
mainsails, society,
Form: Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1
...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.)
Sleek of line for speedy sailing
It was rugged in construction
Several layers of well cured timber
Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales
There were four ...
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Categories:
mainsails, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Rosalind
...He stands atop the ancient towers, both grey and cold as skies
Which howl about and bow the trees, and blow his longish hair—
His countenance stern, he stares below to where his army lies;
Full...
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Categories:
mainsails, absence, devotion, heartbreak, missing
Form: Quatrain
---A Lonely Tower
...a lonely tower
on a rocky outcropping
gold light pierces fog
sailors raise a mug
aboard the once doomed ship
all mainsails unfurl
Contest: In the Light of haiku
Poet: D. Guzzi...
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Categories:
mainsails, history, nature, light, light,
Form: Haiku
If People Think
...I asked a scientist to make an olive's leaf,
So green with its juices,
Smelling spring and sweat from gatherers hands.
He answered that he couldn't.
I asked him to make the light of the sun,
Ref...
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Categories:
mainsails, nature, people, religionpeople, people,
Form: Free verse