Trapped Breath
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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney
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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.
The...
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Categories:
ogle, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
The Rapture of Rot
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Written: August 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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In the slipshod cradle beneath the apple tree,
a bruised fruit folds ajar—
molten...
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Categories:
ogle, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Private Dancer
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Scarlet ribbons are woven into her hair,
titan ringlets frame her beautiful face.
Never refusing to wiggle her pert derriere,
rich men pay big to ogle nubile Ella Grace.
Huge feat...
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Categories:
ogle, dance, jobs, money,
Form: Rhyme
THREE ROCKS
...THREE ROCKS
Written for Competition : A Magical Journey
Sponsor : Constance La France
[ Prompt : I hold three magic rocks in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this ...
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Categories:
ogle, adventure, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
Sappho Translations XII
...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch
In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th...
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Categories:
ogle, beautiful, beauty, girl, happiness,
Form: Free verse
I am A Poet
...I am a poet
I sprinkle hearts
With verses, flowers
Rhymes and kisses
In front of this mute
Beauty
Which moves away
And that I ogle
Oh! Woman
Madam
God has opened up the Heaven
To meet and ...
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Categories:
ogle, beauty, cute love, heaven,
Form: Free verse
My future self
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The time has passed so quickly, regrets I have a few,
I'd change some aspects of my life, and some I'd start anew.
I'd go out in the rain to walk, no umbrella overhead,
With arms stretched out...
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Categories:
ogle, future,
Form: Rhyme
Oh! The Female Form
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Is it just me or do all old guys drool
At the sight of every young chickie
Could it be I'm a perverted old geezer
Or normal but no longer picky
Once thought I was quite sophisticated
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Categories:
ogle, cute,
Form: Rhyme
deliciously malicious
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oh how I love that fiery fire
your iris eyes, alive with ire
enuf to snuff an angel choir
those put-out pupils glaring
with rage to age the staring
such change in col...
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Categories:
ogle, analogy, anger, beauty, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Her Ruckus
...Provocative tears and a face that frowns
accompany a costume so ornate;
She’s happy to come and entertain us,
with a flip tumbles in the Queen of Clowns;
Playing the Fool’s a charasmatic trait,
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Categories:
ogle, emotions, feelings,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Ethereal Lanterns
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Written: March 30, 2024 For Ink Empress Ethereal Lantern Contest
Quote By Rumi: “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-m...
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Categories:
ogle, light, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
I Have an Aversion to Prejudice
...I have an aversion to prejudice
Judging a pond without sampling its ice
Consorting with others eating large melons
Passersby judged as free men or felons
Women condemned as whores or harlots
W...
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Categories:
ogle, judgement, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Eternity Is Pathetic
...Written: October 21, 2023
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To be quite truthful—this epoch is tedious.
I dread them at times, analogous to previous
Dyed by...
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Categories:
ogle, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
No Claim To Fame
...They manage to keep a fanned flame
These ones with no claim to fame
They don’t trade, build or make
Yet heralds ogle for their sake
And I to myself only wonder
That I find no rhyme or reason in ...
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Categories:
ogle, culture, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Swing Ogle
...Written: September 27, 2023
Love Poem Contest Darla Seely
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A poem full of glee and ...
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Categories:
ogle, analogy, appreciation, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
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