Quintains For Claude Raines
...I’ve never been to Sicily, and yet
it’s always felt a part of me. Who knows?
Another life, another alphabet?
Alongside Archimedes, jotting prose
in Agrigentum I, with each vignette,
imbibing ...
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Categories:
raines, poetry,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
This Island of Lighted Shores
...Alone candle flame
Burning into the night
Burning deep in the heart
The endless dark
Waves of ink crash upon
This island of illuminated shores
Bleak hours of lost sorrow
Love nevermore
Wings...
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Categories:
raines, adventure, animal, art, books,
Form: Rhyme
The Willow Tree
...Sitting under the willow tree
on a hot and gray day
just passing the evening away
delicate sounds of thunder
rumble far far away
watching the winds run and play
the grass softly turns
as ...
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Categories:
raines, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
A Sweet Little Lie
...I struggle to tell her this truth,
I consult with her pleasing smile.
Woe is a world where flaws exist,
As stains breed until flavors amend.
She hears me mince through fearful smarm,
Pandora hop...
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Categories:
raines, confusion, funny, hope, muse,
Form: Free verse
Hell Inside
...For a glass of wine the devil once told me his soul could be mine…
i laughed out loud and said damn that’s cheap
but i already feel like hell inside.
~Samantha Raines...
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Categories:
raines, fun,
Form: I do not know?
Transparent
...You try to speak as if you have some kind of depth
yet i choke from trying to quench my thirst in such shallow thoughts
you open your mouth and deceit spills out
you try your best to blend in …
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Categories:
raines, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Blank verse