BREAKING HEADLINE NEWS this Xmas eve day 2023
...…..BREAKING..... HEADLINE..... NEWS.....
this Xmas eve day 2023
After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more sans eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word, and spelt, spilt, spoilt,
et c...
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Categories:
palling, adventure, animal, business, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Just Harrys Way
...Aldham man Harry
In poetry tarried, stilting or lilting
Did thrust, and parry, worthy Harry
Western Aus, he claimed was good
Yet sadness tore three years away
Under the fierce sun, a darkness ...
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Categories:
palling, absence, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Sleepless
...A raw quiet
stretches like a membrane
across the night.
Pulled tight it waits to amplify
the slightest sound.
Each passing minute dials up
the volume of a nerve
strung to snare
the powdery wh...
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Categories:
palling, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
More- Songs-Poems
...When
I
thought
of
more
You promised less
You warned me about my mentor
My co-collaborator
More
The principal patient palling
Do you like score?
You closed the book
More...
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Categories:
palling, analogy, appreciation, longing, missing,
Form: Free verse
The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity
...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...
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Categories:
palling, eulogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
Breaking Headline News This Xmas Eve 2017
...After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word spoilt,
et cetera doe fill full heartbreak,
which Santa Claus immediately claimed
to be “FAKE” and a...
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Categories:
palling, abuse, allegory, children, funny,
Form: Free verse
Without You
...Without you I’m an incomplete circle
A divided square, rectangular, unequal
Loosing shape, my fall has no impact
Burning out in the atmosphere like a comet
Undead, I’m brittle in the sun
Palli...
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Categories:
palling, humor, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
A Glint From Her, Lovely, Midnight Eyes
...A flicker of light from each eye
Radiant blink of blue-winged firefly
Blipping waves of stardust amplify
Transitory illusions of grandeur apply
Dark shadows with fluttering beams vie
Only telepathic ...
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Categories:
palling, beauty, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Twin Towers: September 11, 2001
...Monotonous keyboards clicking
Redundant clocks ticking
Phones ringing, elevator doors swinging
Coffee pots brewing, vending machines spewing
Insouciant workers, carefree shirkers loitering
Clerks, se...
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Categories:
palling, allah, america, angst,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Jack O' Lantern's Hallowed Eve
...Jack O' Lantern jeers through
molten screen
With fiery eyes and a fifth sense
so keen
Masked goblins saunter in shadows
unseen
Wily Jack swills jade folds with
florescent stream
Billowing...
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Categories:
palling, fantasy
Form:
Love's Last Reflection
...State of our endeared union to appraise
Day dreamers shadowed by palling haze
Lover's moon now in the waning phase
Mercurial waves bristle on the surface
Detached planets spinning into malaise
Your s...
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Categories:
palling, lost love
Form: Rhyme
Dusk's Gilded Seams
...Darker seams regally gleam
Sea's turquoise waves glow
Tanned bodies in shadows bask
Neon boards surf strew
Mercurial strobe
Sky's coppertone beams hover
Moon's palling pale globe
Wonder of Dusk co...
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Categories:
palling, nature
Form: Rhyme
Sunset
...Gilded parasol on horizon's edge twirling
Twilight's lamp shade dying embers swirling
Sun's spent beams with embroidered frills quilting
Patchwork of tinctured gases simmering
Deep red, burnt ora...
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Categories:
palling, nature
Form: Rhyme
Forsaken Soul Serenaded
...Quintain of: sorrow, despair, agony, misery, lament scoring
pain
Dolesome drum o'er jaded psyche taps a dark, palling
refrain
Hamstrung harp bridled soul with dissonant chords
enchain
Shrill...
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Categories:
palling, depression
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Reduction of the Hero
...reduction of the “hero”
sees him on television
marching in the shows that
glorify war by painting so-called
“heroism,” as anything but
being hired killers.
sees her in the advert prior to
the viol...
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Categories:
palling, life,
Form: Free verse
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