Wisdom in Decrepit Stones
...Psalms 118:22-24 - NKJV: “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD's doing;”
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Categories:
mouldering, age, life, self, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Dungeness
...copper burns across an endless sky
competing caws claim salt, surf and sand
sailing high above slowly sagging carcasses
long forgotten at the edge of the world
buckled rails swim over a s...
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Categories:
mouldering, beach, bird, boat, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Treacle
...Sickly sickly treacle trickley
seeps on, mouldering down the crock.
Stickily sticky it steadily, trickily
keeps on for many a round of the clock.
I wonder I wonder if I would turn green
Should...
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Categories:
mouldering, humorous, silly, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Types of Taking
...Time's admirer hijacks sections
Rips strings of delicious from fattest flesh
Imbibes fibres provided sublimely
Licks fingers with shameless relish
Nature's passenger adequately dazzled
Rides...
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Categories:
mouldering, analogy, introspection, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 2
...This burden, that you place upon my back,
grows heavier with time's passing, pressing hand.
My strength is stretched; my faith fails on the rack
of knowing that, in spite of all, like sand
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Categories:
mouldering, depression, divorce, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
She Loves Me She Loves Me Not
...She loves me she loves me not...
Just my luck that when juiced a lad
din grammar school, aye own every
rhyme and reason tubby mad
every friggin time boyhood fingers
plucked petals off flowered...
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Categories:
mouldering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Unshakable Psychic Seizures Quakes Oh Man
...(no matter extreme global
warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering
infernal languishing spitfire.)
Shade did adolescent
facade drifts asunder
asper...a major emotional b...
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Categories:
mouldering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sorrow O'Er Youth and Young Love Lost
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When I look on my life that's now half-spent,
I sigh the loss of youth that's forever past,
wishing myself better Fortune's consent,
love, friends, and wealth with naught to lose or ...
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Categories:
mouldering, life, loneliness, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Ode To a Nation With No Flag
...Our newest entrant, our newest nation, forged in fiery code
Bubbled like red hot lava from a net of connected phones.
This nascent nation, transcending any boundary road,
Passing ports of entry in...
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Categories:
mouldering, computer, freedom, internet, technology,
Form: Ode
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
...Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me;
Here I roamed beneath congestion's
Of tumultuous cloud; ...
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Categories:
mouldering, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Unlike Thee Athenian
...Those rarer men I once fondly
knew...
Many dead now...
What remains of them they are so
Few.
Am I to die when numbered
Amongst the...
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Categories:
mouldering, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
What a Calm Sea Hides
...what a calm sea hides
into the deepest indigo
air airwaves have settled
all that remains is a fringe of tide
the tree holds, forever
on the eighteenth day
of every second month
an invit...
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Categories:
mouldering, character, confusion, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Hobson's Choice
..."To die.To sleep?Perchance to dream?"
There is but one we will know
If immortality is in life's scheme.
If mortality is the only show
Then will our bodies turn to dust
Mouldering in slow decay
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Categories:
mouldering, death, hope, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Twice Struck
...There he lay, mouldering,
We thought him buried well.
But there he was, unearthed.
Again, struck by a shell.
It was though they killed him twice,
Oh how the devil played.
We buried him but a ...
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Categories:
mouldering, war,
Form: Rhyme
Pride
...The old house stands still.
Rot has set in.
A flying termite caught in the webs of a dead spider, sway to the shrill of a ceiling fan.
All things sway.
Dreams rise and suffocate in the mouldering...
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Categories:
mouldering, allegory, corruption, culture, home,
Form: Free verse
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