Rust
...I am a ruined house
With a rusty fence,
So many phantoms reside resting recklessly,
A clock on the mantelpiece that won't work. It's stuck staring at me,
Tick………,
The wallpaper is crumbling an...
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Categories:
panelled, heartbreak, heartbroken, love, love
Form: Free verse
The Great Halls of Eden
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The Great Halls of Eden
(A lone voice whispers)
Walking in like the Grand Inquisitor
Tomás de Torquemada
Dressed in a dark robe
With Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata” playing loudly in he...
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Categories:
panelled, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Self Love
...Where was I?
unusual.
behind
the dizzying looking glass,
cement block,
panelled windows,
noonish saloons
sipping my loathing
like mosquitoes
milking stone veins
consti...
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Categories:
panelled, emotions, girl, self,
Form: Free verse
This state of way
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They hold their courts of pomp and ceremony in the name of history they say.
They sway the poor and destitute at arms length to avoid acknowledging their eyes, their hearts, their voices for exi...
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Categories:
panelled, character, conflict, culture, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
The Haunting
...Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a frozen lake.
Am I in a nightmare - is this where realms...
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Categories:
panelled, horror,
Form: Narrative
Flick Prophetic Finger
...FLICK PROPHETIC FINGER
Knocking hard on a massive ancient gate,
Step out of a gaunt, granite building,
Leave behind its austere contents,
With wood-panelled box-seats,
Pinching sardine-tigh...
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Categories:
panelled, break up, change, flying,
Form: Free verse
What of Honour Is Left
...The meal deal, the power crush.
The entitled airs they seek so much.
Swallow dignity, swallow pride.
The panelled walls of entitlement house their hides.
What of humility, what of honour is l...
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Categories:
panelled, abuse, corruption, dance, evil,
Form: Free verse
Room Won'T Disclose
...Majestic flight sweeps up from lobby sprawl
Mattress padding pink carpet creeps corners
Bannisters ornate in century's old discussions
Omit disclosure of grim history above
Uniform scuff tread...
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Categories:
panelled, death, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Twilight
...Is it today now or yesterday still?
Is it time already for morning pill?
hazy light filters in through the window,
as crimson gathers over distant hill!
Can’t tell early dawn from the evening g...
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Categories:
panelled, age, child, dad, emotions,
Form: Rubaiyat
Pastoral Passage - Church Crypt
...Butterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces
Piloted by Holy Spirit, seated hushed congregation
Ritual of ornate ...
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Categories:
panelled, baptism, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
The Wrong Move
...We moved house today
This house lacks warmth and heart
Everything in disarray
We don't know where to start
Things in packing cases
Others in a box
A pile of dirty laundry
Underwear and socks
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Categories:
panelled, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cry Me a River
...I am not the giver,
am not a diva.
Can't get you high,
can't even give you a fever.
When you are wet, I can't get you dry
When there is heat, I can't give no quiver.
Can't make you die, ...
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Categories:
panelled, anger, freedom, wisdom,
Form: ABC
Soldier's Return
...Ahh Jamie lad where hast tha bin?
not heathered shire, so searched within,
nor mountain river's gilded beck, but
inside burnt out blackened wreck
Brings the coffin from the plane,
touches ta...
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Categories:
panelled, death, loss, military, son,
Form: Verse
Fireplace
...The panelled walls of cedar wood, pencil thin red aroma
Reflect the firelight burning light, warming coals
Black windowpanes bar the cold and wind to a blacker outside.
Pictures in the flames rise...
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Categories:
panelled, absence, winter,
Form: Free verse
Elizabeth Ii
...See there! She flies about the moor
Upon her favoured mount.
The waving, flowing grassy shore
bears hoofprints all about.
The waves her steed surmounts.
Her hair is flying here and there;
She h...
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Categories:
panelled, children, dedication, england, horse,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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