Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back
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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...
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Categories:
pirouetted, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Autumn's Fallen Leaves
...There's sadness in falling leaves, but beauty
in the carpet they lay at our feet.
~ by poet
I walked across a trestle bridge cloaked in sca...
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Categories:
pirouetted, autumn,
Form: Free verse
CHAKRAS BOLD
...CHAKRAS BOLD
HE designed root red via
a laugh so raucous creating
world wild rumbling random
rubies rolled ruling red
thunderous winds whirling
shimmering shocking floods
Emperor Suprem...
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Categories:
pirouetted, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Alliteration
Dancing in Our Dreams
...In the cosmic ballet, where celestial lights gleam,
I whispered your name, in a voice soft as steam.
The moon's tender cradle, a swing for our feet,
We danced through the heavens, in rhythm so swe...
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Categories:
pirouetted, dance, dream, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Mysterious Gift
...She walked along the narrow path.
Along the side of the lonely stream.
Her golden hair was wet
and stuck haphazardly to her face.
That face that was so tanned
fruit of summer swimming
in the la...
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Categories:
pirouetted, fantasy, funny love, love,
Form: Free verse
How cottage cheese was created
...The cow took a chance, pirouetted and pranced
to the ancient tune..
Her body sagged and one foot snagged and she
tripped on the tip of the moon..
Farmers found her at the trough.
Dogs danced in ...
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Categories:
pirouetted, age, animal, food,
Form: Light Verse
Guess Who
...Once upon a moon in a faraway dreamland,
Pirouetted a young girl, like a swan so grand.
She walked and smiled through life in grace,
the world too soon felt her emerald embrace.
For s...
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Categories:
pirouetted, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Symphony of Rainfall
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Written: February 22, 2024
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I love the gentle rains of spring
falling with felicity as they sing.
A symphony of sweet ro...
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Categories:
pirouetted, analogy, appreciation, celebration, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Travelin’ Man
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I have been here, I’ve been there,
over yonder up and down.
Been back home and been long gone,
been nowhere but been around.
I’ve traveled for a far piece,
just a hop, skip and a jump.
I ...
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Categories:
pirouetted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Those Women
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They were vibrant women,
whose voices vibrated in the vicinity.
Their squabbles were X-rated.
Profanity pirouetted nude in their expressions.
They fought for the rights,
though with obsce...
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Categories:
pirouetted, women,
Form: Free verse
Nightmare In Abstract
...She stood in thrall to the Magyar
As, one hand cupped to a breast,
The other picked careful notes
From the guitar against his chest,
So they made a living figure
Sensuous and statuesque
Yet in...
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Categories:
pirouetted, fantasy, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow Girl
...I was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!
I had practiced for so many years, striving t...
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Categories:
pirouetted, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
She Was a Dancer On Fire
...She was a quintessential dancer on fire
The audience was leaping with her
Cobalt blues swirled in my head with each leap
She was an honest dancer with spirit
Bronze skin shimmering
Taunt muscl...
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Categories:
pirouetted, dance,
Form: Prose Poetry
Spots and Inklings
...I have reviewed my spots and inklings
measuring each.
solidified my moment inside breach
of cosmic tare
said farewell to sanity and all the hosts I fare
given lives I’ve liven for the ghosts...
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Categories:
pirouetted, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing To the Moon
...Oh man, oh stupid moron twerp,
how could you be so bigoted and intolerant?
For I too saw her every blessed night
dancing in the glade, a youthful dance,
moon rays shining through dark boughs,
as...
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Categories:
pirouetted, dance, feelings, judgement,
Form: Free verse
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