Express Train
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Door open,
hurtling loud and at full speed
towards my destination,
beneath me a blur
of mounded ballast
and withered grass,
the world coming into focus more
the further out I look -
graffi...
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Categories:
mounded, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
In the Bleak Midwinter
...In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
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Categories:
mounded, grief, lost love,
Form: Haibun
Truth? Really?
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The Wizard of Oz has embraced you within his curtains
Safe inside, YES! Truth comes in flavours with versions
Scoop yourself a high mounded float of fanciful demeanour
Perouse the fifty shad...
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Categories:
mounded, political,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
mounded, green, nature, places,
Form: Haiku
Story of the Lopsided Boy
...Born into a world with only one hand to hold
Delivered by eyes impassive to his existence
cold fingers brought no warmth to his welcome
While no strength held him high.
The yearning in his eyes ...
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Categories:
mounded, boy, fate, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Word Strokes
...Nestled woodland, leaves on line,
thick, straight, and curving.
Mounded upland, forms eternal,
Rounded, angled, and yielding.
Circled valley, meadows, fields,
shapes, and pathways win...
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Categories:
mounded, beauty, creation, earth, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Avenue
...A cold wind shreds
into moans
through the gritted branches
of apple trees then quietens
to a yawn rippled
across the waters of a lake.
Further up the valley,
half the trees have been uprooted...
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Categories:
mounded, veterans day, war,
Form: Free verse
Visions
...Walking to the tea house
Under a clear blue sky
Mount Fuji soaring
Majestic to the eye.
Blossom in the air
Being blown around
Until a gentle breeze
Drops it to the ground.
Afternoon wit...
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Categories:
mounded, dream, happiness, imagination, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River
...Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.
Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
T...
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Categories:
mounded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Garden of My Dreams
...How many years did I plant
dig and dig up again and silently rant
where a flower placed here, should be moved from here to there
at first, not well planning where
this one or that one should g...
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Categories:
mounded, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Closet Door of Intimacy
...Beyond The Closet Door Of Intimacy.
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Behind the locked closet door of intimacy
Two kindred glowing hearts and high spirited souls aflame
Naked as birth awakened by desire and fevered lust
Set r...
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Categories:
mounded, appreciation, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Radical Ravaged
...Sacrifice made when selecting abode
Unit not ideal, but affordable close to City
With a three year old daughter, I worried
About noise transference below and above
Three level town house style ...
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Categories:
mounded, angst, animal, bird, character,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Cemeteries
...Sad graves comprehend
Red dirt freshly mounded up
Flowers crying out!...
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Categories:
mounded, bereavement, death, flower, grave,
Form: Haiku
Love: Male Hypnosis
...We love them everywhere we go,
Every size and every shape,
We dream them when we’re fast asleep,
And we stare when we’re awake,
And some are big and round and warm,
While some are firm and ...
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Categories:
mounded, fun, funny, humorous, men,
Form: Quatrain
Whit Wet Vetted Splendour
...Whit wet Vetted Splendour...
Pervaded mounded jeweled ground
gunmetal sky incessantly
pelted and did pound
asper staccato round
arhythmic, emphatic, melodic sound
to this clown,
who felt h...
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Categories:
mounded, absence, adventure, analogy, death,
Form: Free verse
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