Categories:
rations, art, snow, winter,
Form: Haiku
ear rations
in ancient times
ear-rational philosophers
spoke...
with respect to
irrational philosophic calls
stan sand
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Categories:
rations, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Iron Rations
A time to rake; to search embers,
for fingerprints and the scorched optics
of the scattered and blind.
After the violence, fagots, and reeds
are heaped up into pyres,
but first the sorting,
the probing for trinkets of flesh.
A silver crucifix, smutter tarnished,
lays blackened by the avid impetus
of quick flames, it is held up,
by a tattered man of woe,
he calls out:
"I
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Categories:
rations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Short Rations
You are keeping me on short rations
Do you think it can put down my weight
Or you could be short on elations
Cause its either too early or late
When I’m knocking at your window
Every time it is shuttered for me
You put down your head to a pillow
I’m out there, by the oak tree
You don’t
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Categories:
rations, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Water Rations In a Prison Cell
after Ho Chi Minh
I
The stone basin holds
still water. The still water
drinks the arid sponge
as rays of pure energy
slake their thirst on
the ebon wings of crows
II
Yangtze flows from widows peak
pooling briefly in the lock
of a tired eye. Dirt
and salt cry brackish tears
before leaping from sallow chin,
like rain from languid boughs
III
Frogs turn dirges beyond
translucent glass, their croaks
fold
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Categories:
rations, imagery, prison,
Form: Free verse
Tight Rations
The Cat sat glumly on the mat
Eyeballing his dinner dish
It was high time someone filled it
To the brim with his favourite fish
Things had been a bit slack
Lately his meals had been late
Treats were hidden from him
No titbits were left on a plate
It was time his owners stepped up
The situation was becoming alarming
If he kept on
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Categories:
rations, cat, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Grovellers' Rations
Love and comfort cannot be partners
Complacency dissolves respect
Sneaky activity, entity disheartened
Three component splinter defect
They married within protective faith
Full of future decades' radiance
Charles' charms by ladies repaid
Ego combed by pretty audience
As fate will travel the cheater's tale
Soiling sheets too close to home
Mildred's loyal fresh heart impaled
By horror of rotten frolicking known
Vigourous mother of
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Categories:
rations, first love, love, marriage,
Form: Quatrain
Daily Rations of Hay
Daily Rations Of Hay
With our fine country
only becoming,
more multi-racial and
culturally-diverse,
stagnation and division,
seem only to be
on the increase.
Supporting this more
than sad trend,
are the leaders,
sitting at the very top.
In spite of being
older myself, y nature,
and with women most
definitely on the rise,
I think one solution,
that could very well be,
is to take all the
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Categories:
rations, funny, humorous, poems,
Form: Prose Poetry
Trying Times Environmental Rations
TRYING TIMES ENVIRONMENTAL RATIONS
Calming ever so soothing lasting hours
Environmental rations times trying power
Hours turns the ticking clocks into years
So much dangers so many troubling fears
Trying times do rise mountains
Sun sets still falls over horizons
Calming ever so soothing lasting radiant flowers
Bee's butterflies pollinate before rain showers
Sun sets still falls over horizons
Trying times do rise mountains
And among
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Categories:
rations, adventure, allusion, appreciation, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Fuel Rations
And it happened to be springtime
when I joined the militia
so when we brandished our guns,
there were light breezes overhead,
bird song in the air, flower sprouts,
and happiness that winter was
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Categories:
rations, angst, bereavement, death, grief,
Form: Imagism