A Poem By Any Other Name
...A Poem by Any Other Name…Should Smell Like a Poem
I ran out of time
to post my lines.
So, as I compose
I hold my nose.
Acrid alliteratives,
malodorous odes,
musty ...
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Categories:
pantoums, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I can’t believe I thought that
...I can’t believe I thought that there’d be no darkness when it’s dawn,
I’ll be your queen of hearts, even if the cosmos did crack,
‘forever’ exists as an unseen reality, and the sun will always spr...
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Categories:
pantoums, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ceaseless Constellation
...sometimes I sing
antique anthems,
of the nights
I was confined
within a bottle
of diamond tears,
wept woefully
from the widest sky
that held kaleidoscopic stars~
amidst festooned f...
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Categories:
pantoums, deep,
Form: Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
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When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
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Categories:
pantoums, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Glasswinged Sorceress
...When nylon nights
trade crystal colours
in the stalls of nimble
butterfly wings,
I blossom as an
irenic origami
fervently fabricated
with snowflakes of
greedy gloom,
stealing royal v...
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Categories:
pantoums, angst, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
On the Crest of a Wave
...Sometimes,
sailing in ebony blades
of saturnine seas
brings forth a forsaken froth
of scarred reveries,
when musk-ochre
tints of sunshine cease
to slice through solemn
scarlet skies and ...
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Categories:
pantoums, angst, dark, fantasy, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Untouched Orchard
...She's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings
of black-winged butterflies
that croon and reflect
the t...
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Categories:
pantoums, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse
I Feel Fresh Doubt
...I wrote a limerick last night,
And dreading that no reader laughed,
I sulk and feel compelled to write
What lures me to this poet-craft.
And dreading that no reader laughed,
I'll jot this pant...
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Categories:
pantoums, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Poet Lm
...Lewis Milton Hankins or LM for short when I call him
Always writes poems amazingly in any form and theme
He’s an excellent poet, author and prolific writer
A man of God, as reflected in hi...
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Categories:
pantoums, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
I Feel Fresh Doubt
...I wrote a limerick last night,
And dreading that no reader laughed,
I sulk and feel compelled to write
What lures me to this poet-craft.
And dreading that no reader laughed,
I'll jot this pant...
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Categories:
pantoums, poetry, writing,
Form: Pantoum
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
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"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the ...
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Categories:
pantoums, dark, muse,
Form: Narrative
Forever
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“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forg...
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Categories:
pantoums, dark, halloween, light, love,
Form: Narrative
Persistent Pursuit
...Poets pen Personifications, Pantoums, plus Prose
Providing prepositions, present participles prettily pose
Patiently presenting parodies
Portraying powerful persuasive possibilities
Painting ...
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Categories:
pantoums, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Alliteration
Poet's Adoration of Nature
...As dusk's misty tones awake from silence,
darkness fades, as birds gather to rejoice.
A beautiful reminder of patience,
their sweet melodies give nature her voice.
Darkness fades, as bi...
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Categories:
pantoums, analogy, nature, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
I Miss You Big Brother Potd
...Remember when we were young, you and I
Bit of boyish mischief we used to cause
The swearing, pushing, shoving, and punches
We'd put on the charm when it came to mom
Bit of boyish mischief w...
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Categories:
pantoums, brother, mom, youth, ,
Form: Pantoum
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