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Petering
Petering Poems - Poems about Petering
The Artist And The Winter Vine
... She is eighteen and tattoos are the latest rage." I'd like a tattoo please" she asks. I see a young girl in a messy ponytail and wonder if she'll pick something gaudy, then I will have to oblige. ......
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Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
petering,
anxiety, childhood, death, love
Form:
Haibun
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
...WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS In the delicious womb of all beginnings we learnt to giggle electrons to bear all things without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts warm gurglings of God’s dream......
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Ghairo Daniels
Categories:
petering,
allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Long Haul Home
...A desire sets off towards a place far inland whose spires lift like raised pikes on the horizon. There is always a "somewhere" hanging in the sky above your head, an El Dorado, a glistening pot,......
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Paul Willason
Categories:
petering,
home,
Form:
Free verse
Chiselled Forever
...Time passes, I look in retrospect on a life petering out. Memories rack my brain, there under the pine tree we stand embraced in perfect harmony, our names chiselled on the tree's ......
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Victor Buhagiar
Categories:
petering,
how i feel, love,
Form:
Free verse
Lodging In Old Kazungula
...As the wind flagellates heavily, I catch the scent of cigarette smoke, a familiar plunge— greased lightning before my nostrils, whirling memories of laughter, of twilight conversations......
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Mpho Leteng
Categories:
petering,
adventure, africa, emotions, humorous,
Form:
I do not know?
Aah How Great the Taste of Water
...Aah... how great the taste of water... After lounging in bed until late morning/early afternoon we (the missus and I) felt restless as garden variety buffoon or think chrysalis itching to e......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
petering,
7th grade, death, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Grey
...Grey, Is the colour, That follows me. A trail in the rain When you walk behind. But ahead it gathers Muted and stiff, I do not feel the Red on white of pain, Not the sharp arrow, The......
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Grace Helen
Categories:
petering,
depression, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
The Coda of Love
...Float like a butterfly Sting like a bee Has the light gone out for you? Because the light's gone out for me It is the 21st century It is the 21st century Him. Her. Hic. Ille....
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Richard H. Dunsany
Categories:
petering,
angst, longing, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Rhyme Less Reason
...Without reason rhyme would not be sublime. Un-metered runs of tale-tossed words, un-timed would reasonably scatter like broken chimes, petering-out upon the parchment page of springtime. Without sea......
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Debbie Guzzi
Categories:
petering,
faith, hope, life,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Reader
...A poet dresses the naked word, with emotions. Such as the air in this empty room sops the hand and satisfaction it gives. Still, the pen he has used flows again and the page cherishe......
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Ernesto P. Santiago
Categories:
petering,
friendship, life, love, on
Form:
Free verse