Echoes of Eclipse Flame
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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse
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From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~
Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by li...
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Categories:
mallet, analogy, summer,
Form: Sonnet
The Woods of Four dimensions
...Washed ashore on the lost island
Skin already peeling on the beach
Burning from the hot green summer sun
Meat melting off to become bone
Jumping back into the water
Cooling off with th...
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Categories:
mallet, appreciation, creation, happy, mountains,
Form: Free verse
About gods of timing belts and spark plugs
...“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". A. Dante, 14th century Italian poet
They sway the power over mere mortals
They drop ...
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Categories:
mallet, car, humor, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme
Between Darkness And Light
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Darkness corrupted my soul
But light only burned my flesh
A steady stairway to heaven
Transmogrified into the highway to hell
I'm not even sure I'm okay
I'm still north of Hell
But deep s...
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Categories:
mallet, angst, confusion, how i
Form: Free verse
Eternal Illusion
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Written: May 05, 2024, For Jaymee Thomas Contest
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Incessant ticking of timepieces,
reverberating clatter of a mallet in motio...
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Categories:
mallet, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Shackling His Tongue
...I am frustrated and annoyed by his ticking,
or perhaps it should be labeled the 'tocking'
By the never-ending tongue wagging clicking
in the language better known as 'clocking'
Must Gra...
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Categories:
mallet, time,
Form: Rhyme
The in between years
...The in between years
The un-handed mallet, laying without consience.
The smiling, changing expression of freinds past, in defiance.
That moment, sinking amongst dead feathers.
The call of the cl...
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Categories:
mallet, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Crows
...Sri Lal
Crows
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I come from nowhere,
and I have nowhere to go,
I tell the crow perched
on a low neem branch
beyond the Periyar River.
He agrees.
He and I are free.
We speak the sam...
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Categories:
mallet, bird, fire, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Heart wrecker
...A zapped mallet
She wields in her feeble hands
Every heart is nailed...
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Categories:
mallet, anger, break up, depression,
Form: Haiku
The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And US Edition
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I: THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghe...
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Categories:
mallet, america, crazy, england, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Grandads Dong
...What’s gone wrong with Granddad’s dong, it used to be so long
Once the length of Granddad’s dong made Gran burst into song
His dong would go throughout the night, to Grandma’s sheer delight
And Gr...
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Categories:
mallet, grandparents, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Road I Didn'T Take
...The Road I Didn’t Take
The smell of fresh cut pine is
a balm to my soul as the crosscut saw
works its way through the wood, fine
saw dust sprinkles the floor.
The rough palms of my ...
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Categories:
mallet, sad,
Form: Free verse
Praying For Better Days
...When it comes to all my sorrows
what do I do with them
Do I place them in a paper cup
and pour them down the sink
Do I take a mallet to them
and pound them soft as mink
When it comes to a...
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Categories:
mallet, analogy, sad,
Form: Free verse
Xylophone
...The xylophone and marimba are often compared
Harmonics being the difference between the two
Marimba with softer notes shared
as harder notes from the xylophone ensue
Whatever instrument is ...
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Categories:
mallet, music,
Form: Rhyme
Sat On Pallet With My Mallet
...sat on a pallet
with big blow hit my wallet
met with a mallet
read all of the facts
body looked like battle ax
that never attracts
walked along with Luke
disagreed and did rebuke
a crazy ...
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Categories:
mallet, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
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