Prospectors Poems

Cruel Jewel

...Sign of new tomorrows?
The old ones may just say.
Agony, pain, sore sorrows!
Doubt, dread and dismay!

Wilted flower, came the rain?
Death, ye did disdain!
Thunderbolts across the main!
Bligh...
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Categories: prospectors, absence,
Form: Rhyme

Wallop When

...Sear my heart, O rampant rage!
Simmer deep within!
Scour, devour this rusty cage!
What it takes to win...

As below, thus up above?
Not in this fair world.
Raptor hawk, guard well the dove?
D...
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Categories: prospectors, endurance,
Form: Rhyme


Once we were Numb

...Seasonal flows are flowing
in sequence to a seasonal
warmth
A satellite hoovers like
a distant cloud
in an atmosphere which is neither
might not support
or which has not been seen in many days...
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Categories: prospectors, film, future, music, myth,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberProspecting for Gold

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   Prospecting for gold 
     in a mosquito-infested ravine
   The junior explorers all mighty keen
     to prove their skeptics curmudgeony scolds

   And sure enough, they return all gap-too...
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Categories: prospectors, adventure, children, humor, success,
Form: Quatrain

Aided By The Wind

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                 Eternal skies tease the ground below, 
shows shelf lustrous in the waters eye, in aroused reflecting cameo, 
seducing where iridium and gold collide. 
In a romance, elemental ...
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Categories: prospectors, art,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberAn Old Shovel

...In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak!
In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek.
Hordes of gamblers, 'soiled doves' and prospectors hopin' t...
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Categories: prospectors, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Proposition For the Old Pagan Gods

...Spring flowers you grow & bloom, watered and snuggled within our bed
I knew that my skull was filled with cogs that spun together in my head
I knew early on I made a series of promises to myself I ...
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Categories: prospectors, girlfriend, women,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSearching For Gold

...In a way we’re all like prospectors panning through the river of life 
for each day, as we grow old…
we search for little bits of happiness…
our own little nuggets of gold.

And just like prospe...
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Categories: prospectors, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Seek and Ye Shall Find

...Oracle, Arizona gold
Is just a tale prospectors told
If you walk that land
You will find quicksand
And underneath that its just cold...
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Categories: prospectors, fate,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThe Wild Wild North

...Tales about the wild wild north
Prospectors, fortune seekers, and poets of course
We ruled with an iron fist
If challenged we hissed
Till we got angry and rode away on our horse...
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Categories: prospectors, history,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberIf

...If you're looking for proof that you're loved or you're not,
I'd suggest friend, more balance than hoping for fun!
Does the early bird get worms that's always in flight?
Do prospectors find gold w...
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Categories: prospectors, dream, love,
Form: Rhyme

Two Broken Souls, Part I

...As Cole rode across the Dakota prairie,
sweating a bit under the suns harsh bite,
he saw ahead of him a slight woman’s form,
she walked bare-footed, naked, and pale white.

Sunburns had reddened...
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Categories: prospectors, dark, depression, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Three Steps To

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The stone laid plans 
erected in the Age of Man
are starting to cave in
Their sky towers scraping the blue stratosphere
has begun to crumple
under the oppressive weight of floating sp...
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Categories: prospectors, dark, death, imagery, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAlaska, the Last Frontier

...Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates...
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Categories: prospectors, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Dark Side of White Privilege

...Dad 
born into white hot poverty  
eldest son of an adulterous drunk
abandoned
man of the house at five
white privilege.
His step father , also a booze bunny and bigot to boot...
to escape 
h...
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Categories: prospectors, life,
Form: Rhyme

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