An Auction of Global Size
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I had financially fallen on very difficult times,
and had to sell many of my valued treasures,
including twenty rolls of uncirculated dimes.
To get the best bids, I'd taken great measures.
Mo...
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Categories:
pleadingly, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Aphrodite's Tied Up Delights
...Running on cliff edges cranked her adrenalin
Stagger of gravels' release, tipped in avalanche
Scared her terrifically, able to surrendour then
Driven to dare's taunt irresistible, emancipated
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Categories:
pleadingly, angst, betrayal, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Cold and Lost
...She sits alone on the cold, dirty pavement
looking despondent and lost
her small voice request pleadingly 'any loose change miss'
I see her most days on my way to work
wonder at her age, her hist...
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Categories:
pleadingly, age, death, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
My Child
...My Child,
One day you’ll kneel before my throne,
a crown you’ll hope you’ve won.
You’ll hear me ask this question:
“What acts for me were done?”
Did you...
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Categories:
pleadingly, christian, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Sweet Cleiry
...Oh Cleiry! My baby, Oh lady, my dear Cleiry
No words or letters can paint my heart
So feel for yourself, my anguish is true
No universe could dare tear us 'part
So feel within self, these...
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Categories:
pleadingly, beautiful, devotion, emotions, longing,
Form: Free verse
Collateral Damage
...I look pleadingly into their eyes
as they pull the last of my fingernails,
The pain is excruciating and I pass out
amid my heartrending screams.
When I come to
I am engulfed in total darkness...
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Categories:
pleadingly, abuse, power,
Form: Free verse
Animal Freedom
...Animal Freedom
A Christmas walk in soft sun of winter
Across crisp fields of umber and green,
A sharp breeze blowing with freedom
On their faces, aglow with the hope
Of seeing one again – a bi...
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Categories:
pleadingly, animal, bird, freedom, life,
Form: Sestina
God's Earth
...I love the earth I walk on,
I love the God above,
I love the grace He giveth,
for the Earth is not enough.
I love the friends he gave me,
I love to be with them,
I love the way He set free
t...
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Categories:
pleadingly, christian, faith, god, love,
Form: Couplet
A Grandmother's Legacy
...Warming lights surround you
Quilting the sharp silence
Outside dawn begins
Earth starts stretching
Straightening out the knots
Caught from hours of slumber
Night moves on to blacken another sky
And ...
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Categories:
pleadingly, death, grandmother, grief,
Form: Free verse
A Psycho Path's Prey
...My prey lays on the table somewhat consciously.
He is slowly reviving from my injection that put him to sleep.
He is secured to the table with duct tape tightly.
I'll remove the gag from his mouth wh...
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Categories:
pleadingly, dark, for him, me,
Form: Rhyme
Victorian Poverty Crime and Squalor
...Born into a life of poverty crime and squalor
where hunger and cold winds bite
and disease is rife
and it was a daily battle to stay alive
and find some food to stay alive.
Uneducated illiterate cau...
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Categories:
pleadingly, childhood, dark, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
Rendition
...I look pleadingly
into their apathetic eyes
as they pull out
the last of my fingernails -
The pain is excruciating
and I pass out amid my
heartrending screams.
When I come to
I am engulfed
in total ...
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Categories:
pleadingly, confusion, depression, loss, political,
Form: Free verse
My Paradox
...I was once sent back in time to my newly assigned starship.
I was sent back to prevent the destruction of it.
Someone had planted a bomb hidden somewhere within it,
that would blow five years after w...
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Categories:
pleadingly, time, me, time, me,
Form: Rhyme
Play Ball With Me
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His brown eyes gazed so pleadingly,
"Mama, please play with the ball and me."
"Dear Son, I would like to play with you,
but I have so many things to do."
He turned away without a wor...
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Categories:
pleadingly, childhood,
Form: Quatrain
Come To Me
...Eerily, I seem to wake
At the droning dusk
To feed my hate
To quench my lust
To salvage the young
And drink them clear of their sweet rum.
Hauntingly, I approach.
As quiet as a rodents burst
Danger ...
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Categories:
pleadingly, angst, fantasy, forgiveness, death,
Form: Romanticism
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