That Is How Small The Mind Could Be To Beat
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Soft heart can tell the silent dark sky's heat,
Red eyes might grow tough to handle mettle...
That Is how small the mind could be to beat.
Finger might flip up hints to pure deceit,
Somewha...
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Categories:
nettle, allusion, betrayal, class, discrimination,
Form: Villanelle
Row by Row the Nettles Grow
...Row by row the nettles grow
And circles do surround
Hairy stems the prison wires
And jagged leaves their barbs.
Cry out, forsaken sinner
Your voice shall not be heard
We listen to the wind s...
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Categories:
nettle, christian, death, death of
Form: Free verse
How To Make Him Hit
...I know which cup to leave chipped in the sink,
Mouth open begging for rot.
I know which word to spill—
Vinegar, nettle, sour-spit—
To make him blink slow and tight,
The way thunder coils before ...
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Categories:
nettle, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Insignificant Monster No More
...Drained of opaque innocence
Perfected by your toxicity,
I was laid bare beneath the narcissistic sun,
Searing deep within dehydrated pupils,
Stripping my soul of all humanity,
until your siniste...
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Categories:
nettle, dark, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
Lamentation
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The seashore holds me in grief
entwined with moss and nettle;
while thud of echoes returns
more shrill than a gull's lament...
In decibels of love passing
I hunger for night's soft ca...
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Categories:
nettle, loss, love,
Form: Verse
Different Circles
...Shadows like a life that hides upon
The butterfly effect on the pond—
By young twilight, coming through a shriek,
Nettle of the stillness changed and gone.
From my shadow self, her meeting's ga...
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Categories:
nettle, beauty, butterfly, change, deep,
Form: Rubaiyat
Probate
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A cracked windowpane. A few daffodils peek their heads through the weeds that grow tall where flowers once smiled. Purple nettle chokes the life from any grass courageous enough to try to stand in ...
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Categories:
nettle, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Summer
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when my heart breaks for the morning, yet yearns for the starlit skies, I know that the music of summer is playing across my life ~ quote by poet
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Summer covers the earth in ...
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Categories:
nettle, summer,
Form: List
Mozart Requiem
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Written: February 13, 2023
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An anathema for,
pilose nettle burns,
an art form of unstable feathers,
tropes across the ivory cuticle...
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Categories:
nettle, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form: Free verse
A Pristine Swan
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Written: February 07, 2024
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It appears as if
the world has been
coated by a wave of
deceitful dictums,
where faked reality
a...
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Categories:
nettle, analogy, appreciation, culture, music,
Form: Free verse
The Snake’s Humble Bow
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The chittering Crickets were hidden deep, ‘neath fairytale canopy of Dead Nettle & Chickweed,
There the Bee hums over their tiny forest, a dancer of Meadow’s flower,
Grace between Comfre...
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Categories:
nettle, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fox Cubs and Foxgloves
...Mother was away, plucking hens
So I got my mead, in the special hip flask
Sat by the fence, just by the green
Time slipped along, Ken joined me there
And the day was bo...
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Categories:
nettle, beauty, drink, friendship, funny,
Form: Free verse
Nettle
...Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quick...
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Categories:
nettle, garden,
Form: Personification
The Least
...Beautiful the ugliness of scented sweat.
Resists the idea to flee. The least needs
the soldier’s help. The bleed of his forehead -
whether this soul is of tares or weeds.
This dreadful beast is...
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Categories:
nettle, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Storm
...We cannot tame a raging storm, so with patience,
we must wait for the calm. ~ by poet
The balmy afternoon had been fulgent and warm
Until darkness foreshadowed an approaching ...
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Categories:
nettle, storm,
Form: Sonnet
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