Water
...Raindrops pelted against the window, rolling down the paned glass like tears,
Not unlike the way tears were rolling down my pained face,
The sky was crying with me,
As the plants drowned in the ra...
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Categories:
paned, water,
Form: Other
Night Drive
...Night is locked down within its darkness.
I am not driving into the morning
but slipping deeper into a night-tide.
Occasionally the road is almost lit
by stuttering neon signs,
mostly the road...
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Categories:
paned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Paw-Trod Path
...Along the paw-trod path
Narrow and dainty through the gorse
Where yellow flowers
Lie dim like fallen stars in the mist
Comes a silent visitor, hesitant
It licks its lips
A taste like vi...
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Categories:
paned, animal, anxiety, death, environment,
Form: Free verse
Backdoors of My Town
...I was a whimsical, interior designer, bringing colors and joy into living spaces,
Subtly changing neighborhoods and lives, like vibrant arcs the rainbow traces.
People were as dissimilar as their...
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Categories:
paned, beauty, fantasy, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Scorched Earth Social Policing
...a thousand tragedies paned
onto the community headlines
slashes the idle spirits
the wound enrages them to
seek out sadistic glee for the sake
to title themselves as 'woken.'
pitchforks an...
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Categories:
paned, allegory, extended metaphor, social,
Form: Free verse
Dancing In the Air
...Dancing circles in the air
Pirouettes to seek and share
Feathered frenzy of delight
Such a wondrous, joyful sight
Framed by windows paned of glass
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Categories:
paned, beautiful, beauty, bird, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Hourglass
...Duluth Warmbilt factory blanket
placed over his shoulders
after dinner cookie in lap
untasted
facing out the long
double-paned window
grinning hard
scaring the new hire
A skull she thinks
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Categories:
paned, age, death, old, winter,
Form: Free verse
Face of Cold Glass
...the mirror warped at the sight of her distorted face
condensed tears spoke louder than thundering words
‘swoosh’ and down went another part of her soul
tore apart the bevelled edges and smea...
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Categories:
paned, anger,
Form: Free verse
Mountains Are Calling Me Back
...The mountains are calling me back,
determined not to give me slack.
Windy road leads me to the place
which is emotional to face.
Summers spent at the old homestead,
Nanna would bake her tast...
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Categories:
paned, family, mountains, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Couplet
Through Paned Glass
...Breezing trees heard the whispers of leaves
in the fardel of branches as they trembled
beneath the relentless breath of april's storm
i watched them from my window
this paned glass smudged ov...
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Categories:
paned, angst, rain, society, tree,
Form: Free verse
Moon's Window
...Moonlight through a window frame
casts a shadow grill on the floor
from my bed I watch
the six-paned moon dial
climb across the floor and wall
I can't sleep, again.
Like a movie clip
that l...
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Categories:
paned, moon, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Professional Epitaphs
...PANED REFLECTIONS
Here lies the glazier, Peter Lee
His wife is shattered, naturally!
LAST NIGHTS ON THE TILES
Alas poor Joe, I knew him well
He fixed my roof before he fell...
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Categories:
paned, humorous,
Form: Epitaph
Life Or Game
...I see the light through faded vision
I see times' flight in this faceless prison
Scorned by death yet banished from life
In stasis somewhere beyond day and night
Somewhere I am but nowhere it...
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Categories:
paned, absence, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Noise
...I was studying in the library where
the solitude almost lulled me to sleep,
when out of the blue heard
a quaint noise that startled me,
Curious I got up from my seat
and started looking around...
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Categories:
paned, books, silence, solitude,
Form: Light Verse
Fragments United In
...Fragments United In Perfect Imperfection
And all the smeared colours unite into white
All
the
little
pieces
Fragmentation personified call it life
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Categories:
paned, life,
Form: Free verse
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