Sea Change
...A tusked wolf dips its paw into the brine
the sea is its restless mother.
A proto creature, its bones already growing
razorback fins and horns, it must seek a shell
to hide beneath. The fanged ma...
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Categories:
plows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
AN UNMOCKED ALLEGORICAL FLASHBACK
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AN UNMOCKED ALLEGORICAL FLASHBACK
When we were young and growing up,
Granny said that all things have a seed,
And that every seed produces its own
Things to be reaped: good or bad:-
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Categories:
plows, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
Prior to intent
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Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"heart sets up a vibration
echoing as wordless intent
mind translates in symbols
flight of...
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Categories:
plows, appreciation, change, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
WAR'S PANDEMIA
...Pandemic war plows
are now uprooting sown peace;
her fruits left to rot:-
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Categories:
plows, allegory, analogy, corruption, extended
Form: Haiku
THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
...THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR
Sown love reaps world peace,
While sown hate will reap world war:
Power its sower:-
Sharers of love will sow peace:
Profiteers of war, sow hate:-
World peace upro...
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Categories:
plows, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
A Deer Stalks
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Night stampedes wind-horses.
I edgily negotiate the sharp corners
of swerving shadows.
The hind hoof of a doe
slaps the reflection of my startled face,
the Chevy twitches, plows on -...
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Categories:
plows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spring Counts the Dead
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I cannot bear it
I have blocked out daylight
from my bedroom.
A beautiful Spring is coming,
but the dead come with it.
Every year bodies slide into the earth,
the daffodils sprout,
unear...
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Categories:
plows, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Season Change
...The house is colder now
as autumn sheds its leaves
the push-pull falls wildly beneath the plows
along the edges of the gutters and eaves.
perhaps because the house is emptied
of all the...
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Categories:
plows, autumn, change,
Form: Elegy
Sunrise
...It was an early dawn of December,
Gentle roosters began to crow in the huts,
They greeted the first light of the day, Farmers unti...
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Categories:
plows, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Narrative
Through the broken lines of destiny, the shattered strings of time are revealed
...Through the broken lines of destiny, the shattered strings of time are revealed,
The thread of fate snaps, the springs of eternity unravel silently,
Fallen idols, marble faces cracked under the wei...
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Categories:
plows, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Let's respect our two homes
...Time to be respectable
I live in two homes in my mind
I’m both Frida and Diego
Like me, they lived in Twin Houses
The tortured me lives in the blue one
The elephant in the red and white
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Categories:
plows, art, divorce, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Good Ole Days?
...Bright sunlight tumbles from the crystal blue,
while contemplation plows my fertile mind.
The moon comes early, making its debut.
Dark night will settle, leaving day behind.
These sights implor...
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Categories:
plows, anxiety, life, memory, world,
Form: Sonnet
boustrophedonic
...“boustrophedonic”
a cow plows across the page and
speech does as pausing without
never stops except to catch its
me to Greek that’s but breath...
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Categories:
plows, color,
Form: Free verse
The Face of Hope
...Over a hundred years of miracles
dating back well before statehood
Pioneers who made the desert bloom
Though no one thought they could
Fighting off constant terror attacks
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Categories:
plows, history, holocaust, hope, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Graveyard Cook
...The short order cook is getting delirious at five in the morning
Beads of sweat showing under his funny hat
As he stares blankly at the eight new orders on the wheel,
And wonders when the drunks
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Categories:
plows, drink, longing, work,
Form: Free verse
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