Old Shaftesbury Woman
...Concrete dust drifts like sand across a coastal path.
An old woman battered with facial features that hung on her face,
Disconnected and hanging.
She leans forward in her blumonge, waterproof, u...
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Categories:
nylon, character, class, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Raven Eyes
...When I take off as a raven,
the branch wobbles
my dark figure melts into the night.
No pack, no company
aside from the starlights—
they were once
alive, but now all there’s left are...
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Categories:
nylon, dream, memory, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Light Box
...Cold, warm, horrifying, inviting
Grinding away at the last pink and grey pustules
pooling at the bottom of my
Skull
Gods own light pushes and claws helplessly
against thin nylon ...
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Categories:
nylon, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Godzilla Groaning
...Godzilla groaning
A clause with claws.
Scratching.
Scraping.
Alongside bereft dignitaries.
It is amazing how any womble can be stuffed into a suit.
How rather dapper then!
But not a dappl...
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Categories:
nylon, angst, anxiety, art, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Linda Lucy May Kays Attractive skirts
...Her skirts lands against her springy step in a pretty way
Swirling around her luscious legs with an extra sway
She’s an old- fashioned woman, our Linda Lucy May Kay
Wearing silky nylon hose nearly...
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Categories:
nylon, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Magnolia Moments
...
When I whirl as wind,
unwavering ~
surfing on
watercolor wings
of simmering seasons,
which flicker
and fly through me,
filtering my faults
with a wrinkled fantasy,
I waltz whi...
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Categories:
nylon, deep, devotion, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse
On Crenshaw
...
on crenshaw
carousing in cavernous cafes
slicing into earthen skin
the meat dancers bring it to a boil
they murder the rug
they scrounge for earth worms
the fish head girls bob like sea bir...
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Categories:
nylon, america, memory,
Form: Free verse
The battle of a day along the railway
...It was not early in the morning,
Didn't turn off the headlights even then,
All night long, piloting the freight train,
Both crews are on the verge of strain.
Eyes now blinking like a low-batter...
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Categories:
nylon, grandparents, metaphor, mother, social,
Form: Free verse
Kites - 23 October 2022
...Jan Juc Primary School
Annual Fundraiser
A Kite Festival
Perfect day
Windy, warm
Families crowd onto the lawn
Above Fisherman's Beach
Prams, dogs, wheelchairs
Giggling youngsters
Parents...
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Categories:
nylon, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, flying,
Form: Free verse
Southern Nylon Curtains
...Embroidery is a fancy stitch that gathers true prisms of color,
The needles are gently inserted to catch the threads standing below.
The cutouts are frosted and tend to convey the wond...
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Categories:
nylon, appreciation, beautiful, home, remember,
Form: Quatrain
hoodwinked shoal of fish
...
hoodwinked shoal of fish
in strong close spun nylon nets~
fight for survival
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Categories:
nylon, angst, fate, fish,
Form: Senryu
Poolside Peek
...
In his shirt of bright yellow nylon,
Nicky hung, with his curious eye on
A pool he bent over,
Cool water enclosure
Still, he's well-dressed with his smile on.
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Categories:
nylon, summer,
Form: Limerick
dependence
...Dependence
Looking out of the window
at the doctor's waiting room
his receptionist had gone outside for a smoke
she wore black underwear
under a white nylon dress
Faux pas?
What do I care, wh...
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Categories:
nylon, absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Ripples of Russet Rhapsodies
...Dear eloquent weaver
of woes and throes,
When the last
pewter petal of weary winter
falls as piercing prose,
placing star-kissed tulips
between our
poignant poems,
rewritten with
ef...
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Categories:
nylon, angst, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal In Black And White
...The naked truth of hijacked leaves
when tree reveals a mockingbird
the wind with knives— the season’s thieves
applauds the loss of innocence
soprano song his spoken word
as summer turns a vil...
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Categories:
nylon, betrayal, bird, grief, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
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