Ice On Fire
...As in crystal methamphetamine, the mind becomes cold.
Anxiety, paranoia, and schizophrenia
Creep in, like snakes and deathstalker scorpions, uncontrolled
Are bones, veins, flesh, and blood affecte...
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Categories:
mulls, humanity, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Desperate Hope
...While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of a slowing day,
Desper...
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Categories:
mulls, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
When war mulls over
...An illicit child that none who so wants,
Child of incest, if world’s one family—
A truth to no warmongers ever haunts,
And to which all here are reconciled with.
Grown in the wombs of deep-dwel...
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Categories:
mulls, war,
Form: Blank verse
The Wind Hears Many Secrets
...The wind hears many secrets
As he blows at his election.
Only a hearer at best –
He mulls them over and again
But doesn’t repeat or think aloud
For there are too many to recount.
The wind als...
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Categories:
mulls, places, silence, wind,
Form: Rhyme
A Second Please
...*Image of Loving One More by NS.
A Second Please
Aesthete equip upkeep spade, trowel, and watering pail,
Balters out freely, gagging unwantable, grit travail,
Chrysalism advents t...
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Categories:
mulls, imagery, words,
Form: Abecedarian
Blessed Moments
...*Image of Achieve Your Day by Pixabay.
Blessed Moments
As night sleeps gold streaks undisturbedly passive wake
An accordion of yellow feathers flutters dealt reflectively
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Categories:
mulls, appreciation, blessing, day, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscope-
...constant changing hues
sequenced objects elements
patterns rotate clues
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reflects reflections
variants colors mix-up
kaleidoscope mulls
For Kaleidoscope poetry contest
Sponsored by Chante...
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Categories:
mulls, analogy, appreciation, color, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Writer
...Gist in brief list
Poise mulls word mist
Frame buzz in game
Verse binge flings names
Poise in sharp choice
Splash of mood voice
Style works to pile
Touch strays worthwhile
Moo...
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Categories:
mulls, allusion,
Form: Couplet
Keepsake
...Change brings blessings
As time dangles,
Sense true loving
In each tangle.
Words attest work
As space avails,
Time in free jerk
Spreads what prevails.
Touch frees as such
The waves o...
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Categories:
mulls, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
The Still Bleak Morrow
...The wind blew and lighting bugs flew
In on a warm summer night undue.
A man mutely sitting on the edge
Of a rocky ledge
Mulls over of days gone by
Like a river gone dr...
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Categories:
mulls, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Spirits In the Wood
...Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines e...
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Categories:
mulls, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse
Urgency
...Watch words wake
Sense soul stake
Mind mulls make
Glimpse grand grounds
Proof plots pound
Ripe reach rounds
Choice crafts clay
Set swift say
Prime pure play
Stroke soft sift
Lou...
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Categories:
mulls, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
Pondering of a Puddle
...Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty of motley skies in the afternoon’s brighte...
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Categories:
mulls, april, destiny, fate, imagination,
Form: Haibun
The Carnivore Within
...The Carnivore Within...
Meaty morsels besiege
this vegetarian advocate
yet, the atavistic Jainist within me decries,
egg hen hies his, and lamb hence
carnivorous ache that won't abate
case in...
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Categories:
mulls, addiction, conflict, cry, environment,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams
...Wit words well
Truth thrills tell
~~~~~~~~~
Just joy juice
Niche nice noose
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Work words wise
Spread sure spice
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Here heap health
Wake warm wealth
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Categories:
mulls, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
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