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Song of The Raven No 4: AABB

...Seasons bring ... the nights, Machiavelli's
Corvus corax or ravens, hints, rallies
birds of good and evil, biblically,
and birds of a feather, ominously,
fed Elijah; 1 Kings 17: ... good,
left N...

Categories: pollard, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

The Sea Is Deep

...Deep is the sea

A cook on a ship sat on a pollard drinking beer
when he got up, the ship lurched, and he fell overboard 
He swam on his back, moving his arms slowly
thinking, if the meat he had...

Categories: pollard, beach, change, history,
Form: Blank verse

A Garlic Poem

...The garlic poem 
I had a hot shower, water running, easy down the plug hole  
like my life on an average day. 
Down the plug hole, “isn’t there a song like that “ 
I noticed foam in the corner, e...

Categories: pollard, abuse, beach, history,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Waiting, Yielded, and Still - Jeremiah 18: 1-10

...The great old hymn of a past age
'have thine own way Lord' has said
surrendering to God's will in one's life
God's the potter, we're the clay to be as dead

In God's will seek God's approval
re...

Categories: pollard, bible, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Hiding Under My 3rd Grade Desk

...Hiding Under My 3rd Grade Desk
David J Walker 

Mrs. Pollards smile 
Was enough to reassure every member
Of her third-grade class 

That their world was secure 
As the crass voice in the 
Cr...

Categories: pollard, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

Le Drizzle Aleaf

...The enchanted forest
Of Le Drizzle Aleaf,
Where trees become giants 
And the roots become feet,
And the sky is distorted
By foliage sheets
Overlapping in rhythmic
Melody with the breeze.
And ...

Categories: pollard, absence, corruption, creation, grief,
Form: Rhyme

The Pianist

...The Pianist 
I flick through the TV channels. It is football
and football, except on Fox News, but they
are so insane there I rather watch sport. 
I played the picturesque game once as defender
...

Categories: pollard, humorous,
Form: Bio

Obsession

...Obsession 
The pianist Albert has got a job in Loulé last time 
I saw him in Faro  and fell over a pollard, he said 
he was not my father. When he spotted me he ran 
into a café, they let him run...

Categories: pollard, father, parody, father, me,
Form: Blank verse

The Ship Officer and a Lady

...The ship officer and the Lady 

As I waited for my ship to dock at the onion pier,
a clerk came and handed me a bag of garlic for
the ship, I told him I had not ordered any and
showed him my thr...

Categories: pollard, angst, faith, friendship, funny,
Form: Blank verse