And Then There Were None - For Agatha Christie
...I’ve only desired to light old lamps with young wicks
(the tongues of flame must be blinking hard with vigilance)
Across dark, mildewed alcoves that smell of ink —her writing ink —
But one thing l...
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Categories:
mildewed, tribute,
Form: Ode
A Whisper Into the Kitchen Floor
...He tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear
He'd always been a staggering man
Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy
Now he's a staggered man
This night, curved and hunched
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Categories:
mildewed, bereavement, death, grief, lost
Form: Free verse
Information
...From sunrise, when the breath of the new-born day
Kisses my eyes, information startles me.
Waves of my sleep leave the froth from my mouth,
Youthful and earnestly fresh with the harassment of
Bot...
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Categories:
mildewed, internet, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze
...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village,
an ear clapping, full sailed, fog
moors itself to the rooftops,
then hides all in a breezeless blear.
Rheumy eyes peep out from nets,
damp noses s...
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Categories:
mildewed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The day a poet didn’t die-I: The melodramatic poet
...A night in fragments—
Breath reeked mildewed regrets,
and static collided behind my eyes.
I tasted shattered neon,
sipping cheap club gin.
Even alcohol can’t silence the poet—
I mock her per...
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Categories:
mildewed, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wringing Out the Rain
...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.
We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...
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Categories:
mildewed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The rebellious cheeses
...I had only just heard that UK cheese was revolting.? Not mildewed or slimy which could be
Insulting? No.! even the cheeses have it seems had enough of that quyeer kahmer
Nonsense and stuff.' It see...
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Categories:
mildewed, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Fair Game
by Michael R. Burch
At the Tennessee State Fair,
the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables
with mocking button eyes,
knowing the p...
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Categories:
mildewed, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse
Wounded Sigh
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The sun has long receded from the sky,
Pallid gloom invades the wintry air,
Morbid silence hangs over him,
Memory sleeps like hibernating toads.
Trees stand bare with no leaves t...
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Categories:
mildewed, angst, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Badminton
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That’s how some poets roll the the dice here, don’t you see?
I think it makes sense, if your life is all about me, me, me!
Old poetry friendships ………like garbage, tossed dowm
a mildewed...
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Categories:
mildewed, friendship, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Judas Rosetta Stone
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An anti-resolvent-fume-
of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield of humanity.
Thick as molasses, blackstrap morass of emnity.
Blight is apathy, and apathy is blight.
A Void, a claim farmi...
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Categories:
mildewed, art,
Form: Rhyme
Sundown of the Heart
...A waning aura no longer flamed enough to flicker a surrender. Decomposes, decompresses like mummification wrap.
An anti-resolvent-fume-
of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield.
Thick as molasses, b...
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Categories:
mildewed, change, death,
Form: Free verse
The Now Garden
...I envision the low wall,
ivy-clad and mildewed
a stone relic of some-time'
beyond this moment.
The garden has not withered wild
but has slipped through the years
untouched by decay
or an ove...
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Categories:
mildewed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting Annihilation
...Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation
With mighty mouse and Hercules height
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades ...
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Categories:
mildewed, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Making Do
...The holiday cabin smelled of wet pigeons
but it was lakeside and cheap.
The lake was not popular,
too deep and weedy for swimming,
too shallow for docking boats,
yet it suited our make-do mind...
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Categories:
mildewed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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