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the lay of the land E
...The Lay of the Land If my thoughts had wings Or better still, had arrows and a bow To pierce your heart You will open your emerald eyes As only seen in the sea of Greenland Seek my embrace We ......

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Categories: putrefied, best friend, blessing, for
Form: Bio
In Search of the Lost Tongue
...They journeyed back to the past Digging deep into archives vast Day and night they laboured on Unearthing bones from ancient tombs In search of the lost tongue The mother tongue of Urhobos Th......

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Categories: putrefied, history, language, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Used Politicians For Sale
...They have used us enough We’re so done with their stuff We will trade them for dust Some old snails, or just rust We’ll exchange them for rocks They ship well in a box And to save on some freig......

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Categories: putrefied, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Agony of a Country
...Here we are trapped and bound By evil forces difficult to fathom Here we are naturally endowed With all of God’s blessings While 133 million of our children Wail nightly on empty bowels Con......

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Categories: putrefied, allusion, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Painful Longing
...Perris, take my forlorn and lonely heart. Though far apart. Thank the dead words that reach you with a bruise. That remarks of a loving man here in the vale! Could blue flies traverse hills and ......

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Categories: putrefied, 10th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse



Maybe One Day Soon
...i will see you, my love soon i will see you in a windless country, in a thoughtless world, with swords, we”ll cut off all roads in the air, from the earth with our eyes, we”ll dress them up in f......

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Categories: putrefied, america, anger, books, destiny,
Form: Free verse
All of a Sudden Everything Is Much Easier
...it's as light as snow, the steep hill when the sun rises must not move a finger, obedient child, the earth wears its white feathery garment, putrefied by the wet tears, no need to raise up my e......

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Categories: putrefied, 7th grade, allah, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
When I Die
...When the sun has set for me and the stars should have blinked no more, When the time for me to go and see my friends on the other shore, When the breath that I have loved for seventeen years have c......

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Categories: putrefied, allusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Marooned On An Island of Nihilism
...After a lifetime (pronounced like millennium), where tenacity futilely braced psyche deeply purpled, hellishly, and lethally traced resulting scars - jackknifed, emasculated cruelly chaste ......

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Categories: putrefied, absence, abuse, allusion, angst,
Form: Blank verse
The Ardingly Jackdaws
...THE ARDINGLY JACKDAWS The jackdaws know from prudent aviation As they scan the land for real estate that's prime In touch with best of value in location The venerable old schools pass test of tim......

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Categories: putrefied, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member After the Revolution
...We shall meet again, my friend in Johannesburg, my friend After the revolution Ha! Ha! Ha! We shall dine on gold plates And wine on rich red blood We shall roam the open veldt from Pieters......

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Categories: putrefied, africa,
Form: Free verse
Tsunami
...Teardrops had fallen and wrung my heart dry too weak to cry sweat had trickled down to feet and palms hiding in my bulging eyes. I had searched for three days trembling at a doorknob ......

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Categories: putrefied, ocean,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon
...Two ladies named Jan and named Lin professed a forgivable sin they cornered a dragon wrung her in a flagon and gave her away as cheap gin The old dragon's name was Jooling who had a h......

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Categories: putrefied, fantasy, humor,
Form: Limerick
They Were Dying, Part 3 of 7
...(By the time of the shooting of "The Misfits", the Miller-Monroe marriage was in deep trouble. The Pansy is Montgomery Clift, The Tusker is John Huston.) After the Fall It started as a ment......

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Categories: putrefied, film,
Form: Free verse
Does the Angel In the Whirlwind Still Direct the Storm
...“ Does the Angel in the Whirlwind still Direct the Storm ? ” As blood in rivers of crude black burned the prophets mourned and woe upon the angel dancing in the storm to the reign of hail an......

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Categories: putrefied, betrayal, war,
Form: Free verse

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