Pens of Praise
...The factories no longer exhale fumes but fillers
Clanging steel is traded for selfie stick.
Whip is gone but the gaze remains.
Wage is still dingy and stale.
Accepted without questions.
When t...
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Categories:
milked, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Good Roar
...The bull roars when he sees the big cow being milked by foreigners men...
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Categories:
milked, allegory, analogy,
Form: Monoku
Excellent marksmen women set his her sites
...Excellent marksmen/women set his/her sites...
I can hold out for upcoming mental health therapy until Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Yes, and you (like I) will probably presume me deservedly cursed for...
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Categories:
milked, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Reverse Cyrano
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“Reverse Cyrano”
Reverse Cyrano
new wave poetry
straddles the ruins
milked
with two sugars
dark Tea dreams
red leaves laquer
the vain roadmaps
that stain the...
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Categories:
milked, muse,
Form: Free verse
doggel
...(Goliathus goliath music symbols and meanings.
Titanus giganteus articulations to rests
Scales are a set of notes ordered by
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Categories:
milked, analogy, food, music,
Form: Ballad
- Hair On The Chest -
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the Vallhall journey
drunken orgies - fight and death
mead - milked from a goat...
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Categories:
milked, heaven, history, humorous,
Form: Senryu
Sunrise
...It was an early dawn of December,
Gentle roosters began to crow in the huts,
They greeted the first light of the day, Farmers unti...
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Categories:
milked, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Narrative
Jesting Jack, Jinxed Jill
...Jack and Jill were brother and sister, whose environs were hilly and green;
And they groomed horses and worked in gardens, oft 'til a moonlight scene.
They did daily chores on a farm, in ...
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Categories:
milked, children, fairy, fantasy, farm,
Form: Couplet
small forest
...small forest
The small forest or the woods by the white road
made of crushed sea-shells, was a place of enchantment
Squirrels played here and had no fear of lone dreamers
stumbling over oak root...
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Categories:
milked, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Ten Hungry Vultures
...Hungry vultures; there were ten, just sitting in a tree
One fell out and bit the dust while my wife made my tea
Hungry vultures; there were nine, among the leaves so green
One chewed dirt as my ...
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Categories:
milked, bird, silly,
Form: Couplet
Searching My Soul
...My soul seems to be hidden today.
Where can it conceal itself?
I thought it was always with me,
Roaming the endless paths
That clatter the corridors of my mind,
coursing through my arteries and ...
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Categories:
milked, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Great Expectations
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great expectations
anticipated in the
poetic heart
Havisham delivered
all and more for love,
a separate unseen thief,
tore the others’ worlds apart
webs like ectoplasm
from underneath...
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Categories:
milked, dark, muse, satire,
Form: Free verse
not a slave
...Not quite a slave
After war number 2 when the time was hard and
oil was undiscovered, hidden under deep waters
when our town stank of stale fish oil and people
made their booze called “sats” ...
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Categories:
milked, abuse, allusion, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Rain Song
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Densest fog hovers over the mountains,
Blue ridges reformed, now steely,
Gray as the moment just before dawn,
When silence bleeds her dreams
Through the still, cool light
Graceful as the sigh,...
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Categories:
milked, appreciation, mountains, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
Farm's warmth
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Wet foggy morning,
a shy daylight wakes me up with the birds music.
The cats heard my voice, they call me to have their breakfast.
Before my coffee, I am their waitress.
I look at them while ...
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Categories:
milked, bird, blessing, cat, deep,
Form: Free verse
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