Brexit
...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...
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Categories:
plinks, political,
Form: Free verse
Fountain Harp
...The fountain flows as music plays.
A harpist plinks the water strings.
The fluidity in blue-white rays.
The winsome melody of water wings.
1/17/2023...
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Categories:
plinks, music, water,
Form: Quatrain
Soul Stone
...Moment after moment
Time drained into the void
The water waned dry
As drought vehemently annoyed
...plenty
The juxtaposition of the River
Sliced reason to bleed
Garments of value
Snagged on...
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Categories:
plinks, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dank Grey Day
...Day dawned dank grey.
Sky pre-washed to ashen, cuddled in.
Cats on tippy-toes dipped their toes in puddles
stalking prey, huddled to pause, slumbering in.
Birds ruffled dew drop spots from fe...
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Categories:
plinks, day, sun,
Form: Free verse
Helpless
...sleep plinks into deep
dark caffeine — a mug helpless
to stay awake
1/9/2020...
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Categories:
plinks, sleep,
Form: Senryu
Falling
...The patrons moved by her angelic harp, never knowing her endless suffering...
FALLING
her silver harp
plinks and plucks
her mind dull
with angel hair
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Categories:
plinks, abuse, angel, dark, music,
Form: Free verse
Hungarian Rhapsody
...HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY
Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.
The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendif...
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Categories:
plinks, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ...
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Categories:
plinks, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
The Malady
...The malady
Knocks on my door
The hall is empty and bleak
Dark doors keeping secrets
I tape a spoon against a wine glass
Its plinks sings from room to room
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Categories:
plinks, absence, age, art,
Form: Blank verse
In Emerald Shadows
...Trying to hide in conspicuous places
a night on the town in their false, plastic faces.
Sweetly they sweep through magnificent halls,
top-dollar galas and masquerade balls --
where always the wi...
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Categories:
plinks, abuse, analogy, betrayal, dance,
Form: Couplet
At Tea Time
...For the daughter I love and miss.
There’s a change that’s like a season that I’ve noticed in the air
I couldn’t tell what niggled me but now I have to share,
I feel it in the morning wh...
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Categories:
plinks, absence, angst, daughter, father,
Form: Ballad
The Jig Is Up
...When Irish eyes are smiling,
And the gymnast smile extends to curve her petal-red lips,
That's when she'll let her waves fall down with the grace of
a faerie.
If in a wheat field the sheathes ...
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Categories:
plinks, lost love, love, passionme,
Form: Free verse
A Last Note
...Just to warn anyone who reading this I do NOT claim to be a poet. Nothing in
here rhymes or anything. Just some crap I wrote. I know the devil thing is a bit
over used. Oh and if someone could te...
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Categories:
plinks, fantasy, imagination, music, me,
Form: I do not know?