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...Stones left unturned for those that seek truth among the urns.
I care not to seek out answers requiring a life’s sacrifice of family and name.
Secrets revealed. Kingdoms rise, then disappear. Bur...
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Categories:
mollusks, appreciation, deep,
Form: Free verse
On The Rocks
...Crying gulls circle
Dropping mollusks from above
Empty shells look up
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Categories:
mollusks, bird, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Harvest of Osyter Pearls
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her ethereal gaze tucked me into nirvanic waves
tore me asunder amid quixotic abyss and seraphic throe
I harvest pearls from mollusks in swimming oysters
strip it in kaleidoscopic...
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Categories:
mollusks, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Ocean's Tale
...My name is Ocean.
If you listen, you will hear me speak.
but you must listen carefully,
or you will hear nothing
but the cacaphony of my waves
and tumbling pebbles at the shore.
Open your m...
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Categories:
mollusks, appreciation, history, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
In the universe of the two rooms, she gathers her dreams between her palms
...In the universe of the two rooms, she gathers her dreams between her palms,
She lets her fired hair descend upon the folds of our fleeting time.
"It's the end," she articulates with a voi...
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Categories:
mollusks, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Love On the Planet Evon -Revised
...The night descends quickly.
The bloody Evon’s moon rise
to its zenith leaving a red uneven path
on the choppy ocean surface.
Quickly I take my special pill
that will transform my legs into a tai...
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Categories:
mollusks, fantasy, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Green Grootslang With Giant Tusks
...A large green grootslang with giant tusks
shook down a bunch of red and yellow mollusks
hunted them down
Northeast of Gerogetown
Scaring sweet corn off of their stalks and husks...
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Categories:
mollusks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Squid Man
...The icky sticky squid-man
Squeezed from the water spout
Leapt up my nose and
Sucked my brains right out.
Dug deep inside me
with all his slimy legs
Inside my skull hole
He laid a thousand eg...
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Categories:
mollusks, animal, death, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Clams On Parade
...Clams on parade go salty down
Slip into comas in throats of oceans
Land on floor beds blanketed in mud
In love with the mighty waves above
Lights on the shore, lights ...
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Categories:
mollusks, beach, celebration, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Ocean's Tale
...My name is Ocean, and,
If you listen, you will hear me speak.
But you must listen carefully,
Or you will hear nothing
But the cacaphony of my waves
And tumbling pebbles at the shore.
Open you...
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Categories:
mollusks, care, environment, imagery, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Abstractions
...Lithesome words like ‘love’, ‘loyalty’
And ‘liberty’
Lie, like mollusks on the sea
Bed; closed clam shut
Not revealing
Anything but
An unctuous feeling
And when prized open
By a devouring que...
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Categories:
mollusks, betrayal, relationship, words,
Form: Alliteration
Discovered Seashells - More Or Less Intact
...Discovered Seashells
(More or Less Intact)
More like seashells on beaches, encounters with love
may enchant, disappoint us, but offer assurance.
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Categories:
mollusks, celebration, love, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
There Lives a Mermaid
...There lives a mermaid with a lighted tail
In a cave deep, deep under the dark blue sea
Moonlight does not reach her
But some of the sun rays do___
And when the rays strike her body
She shines li...
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Categories:
mollusks, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
We Did Not Dye In Vain
...we did not Dye in vain!
from “songs of the sea snails”
though i’m just a slimy crawler,
my lineage is proud:
my forebears gave their lives
(oh, let the trumps blare loud!)
so purple-mantl...
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Categories:
mollusks, purple,
Form: Verse
With Child
...He put his ear to her belly,
heard a milky cloud
gurgling like a water spigot,
the ankle-deep sounds of
red plasma and urine,
the murmur of mollusks
in mouthing waters;
succulent voice...
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Categories:
mollusks, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
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