Rum n Raisin 18 - One Rainy Day
...“I’m so very bored,” Raisin said with a frown
“Me too,” said Rum, “but with rain pouring down,
It’s not like we get to go out for some fun.”
Raisin said, “Will this rain ever be done?”
Sat on t...
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Categories:
prowled, cat, dog, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Eclipsed Persuit
...The ominous black wisp slithered through the night,
Hunting for a beacon of light.
Whispering secrets of forgotten fears,
Echoing cries from ancient years.
It prowled the shadows, unseen, unhea...
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Categories:
prowled, angel,
Form: Free verse
Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories:
prowled, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Song Parodies
...Let’s Eat Something New This Christmas
(Parody of Have a Holly Jolly Christmas)
I can make some spicy tacos
better than the ones down south.
Please though know to eat them slow
or they may bur...
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Categories:
prowled, christmas, song,
Form: Lyric
Catty Natured
...You know how a cat is? The way it awakes,
how its eyes open, for a moment
not seeing anything,
how it blinks slowly
eyelids washing a mind
of anything but satisfaction.
Legs stiffen, stretchi...
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Categories:
prowled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
hyena pack enjoys their prey
...She prowled the night horizon sniffing for prey
oh, my here it came, happy hey, hey, hey, hey!
She and her pack tore the animal quickly in half.
So glad to be dining on a baby giraffe.
They lau...
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Categories:
prowled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Future Self
...
The spent sun sank on the transit,
took away the colors of the chameleon sky.
The masked face of clever craft on display
enticed me to walk entranced
on the dark garden pathway.
The creepy ...
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Categories:
prowled, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Moscow III
...And all the world would change forevermore,
for solitude’s content has come undone.
Its island bliss could harbor it no more
as destiny unleased the rising Sun.
The sleeping giant woke to see i...
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Categories:
prowled, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Lake
...The swollen lake had begun to settle again as the
brilliant sun seemed to dance between the clouds
I’d fondly remember the quiet calming warmth
beneath the trunks of big cypress trees morning
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Categories:
prowled, allah,
Form: Naat
Last Drop Of Their Blood
...
In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free,
Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set.
Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun,
Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter deb...
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Categories:
prowled, absence, addiction, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
...Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resemb...
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Categories:
prowled, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Adapting the Craft
...Adapting the Craft
My father looked up Zealot Street
toward the mountain where ore
buckets hung to cart the coal.
“Don’t go near the mine” he repeat-
ed, the chant of elders who...
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Categories:
prowled, father son, son,
Form: Rhyme
The Animal of Sin
...The sun sank on the transit by and by
Took away the colors of the chameleon sky,
The masked face of clever craft on display
Enticed me to walk on the dark garden pathway.
The fluid dreams the s...
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Categories:
prowled, analogy, evil, sin,
Form: Rhyme
The Tigerilla
...CHAPTER ONE
They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then t...
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Categories:
prowled, africa, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Victorinus, the Manichaean Sower of Malliana
...Victorinus preached to free pearls trapped in soil
So plants may grow and unearth all bright pearls
To bring pearls back to their home through light’s secrets
Secrets for the downtrodden and dirty...
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Categories:
prowled, analogy, animal, betrayal, courage,
Form: Free verse
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