Time
...Would we could turn back the hours;
transport rearward that small hand,
take back a few we wasted,
perhaps youthfully misused.
Yet, if it was made be so,
of which past hours to erase?
For eac...
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Categories:
rearward, time,
Form: Blank verse
Msdos Auxiliairr- a Dedicated Verse To Kaitlyn Tiger
...Posterior reliance cordial dependent assistant
Rearward following assistant gatherings
Astern and nice Miss Courteous and polite is
Assistant nurtured provider
Rearward following as...
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Categories:
rearward, analogy, appreciation, birthday, blessing,
Form: Pantoum
I Know a Place
...Between frosty cobalt-cliffs, cruise-ship hesitates to pause,
Amidst ice sculptures echoing cheers of spirited applause,
Mesmerizing enthralled sights evincing awe-struck trance,
Lauding vast geli...
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Categories:
rearward, beautiful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Listen To the Moon
...The plain is fuzzing with the ingress racing.
Predicted rain is heard in the birds singing.
Sow your seed when the moon tells its time.
Hear the tales close to the fire; it's sublime.
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Categories:
rearward, analogy, appreciation, bird, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
A Haunting Chime of Time
...this clock on the wall, echoes through my heart's lonely walls
it laughs in seconds the pulsation of years long past
its hands stroke the circumference of my soul it thralls
it writhes against my ...
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Categories:
rearward, time,
Form: Rhyme
Peanut Brittle Eight Word Challenge 5
...Peanut brittle broken in tiny pieces
The immutable desire drove him forward
There was no interlude from the increases
Of his huge appetite sketched out straightforward
It was with formidable ...
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Categories:
rearward, food,
Form: Quintain (English)
I Got Your Six - Sundry Times
...Find me, not in the wind, earthquake or fire, after the fire a stil...
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Categories:
rearward, bible, christian, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Contemporary Ode To a Mother Crying Out To Her Children--2015
...Contemporary Ode To A Mother Crying Out
To Her Children…2015
Sprawled out on life’s stage,
her world turns and runs
river red with the blood of her children:
flowing like a wandering ...
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Categories:
rearward, africa, allegory, analogy, black
Form: Ode
Living On Someday
...If raindrops rise in leu of fall
would you seek the meaning overall?
Would spectacles endow with a clarity of fog
would you follow tangled lines of a rearward call?
Inevitable advance to steppi...
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Categories:
rearward, confusion, desire, dream, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Missouri Mule
...As a country boy, up in the hills,
Life was tough, not much for frills.
I remember it well, yes, even now,
When spring time came and it was time to plow.
Afore sun up came, I was out of bed,
And...
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Categories:
rearward, animal, farm, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday
...Yesterday wafts softly down as this days echo fades
All but hushed to whisper by time’s ever binding glue
My dreams this night will richly form and dance between the two
Troubles displayed within...
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Categories:
rearward, angst, dream, time,
Form: Acrostic
The Bridge
...He sat himself down on the edge that evening with the gravest of sadness trickling with his tears and a whimper that shook his body. As he fixed his position to one more suitably comfortable, he watc...
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Categories:
rearward, absence, angst, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Prose
Under the Water Fall
...I found Love bathing below a water fall
Bow and arrows casually laid aside
above his attire and white plumes;
the air was covered by wet fumes,
yet I could see his arms open wide,
his back turned aga...
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Categories:
rearward, allegory, love, nature, water,
Form: I do not know?
Leave It To the Soupers
...Treasured features soaring like a blackbird.
Conjured imagery, imaginations endlessly fostered.
Rationale stretched beyond limits, enraptured
But leave it to “Soupers” to reorder lines savored.
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Categories:
rearward, on writing and words
Form: Monorhyme
Beneath In My Heart
...Beneath in my heart, behind all my thought
Being then, Dad, you were always my part
Fingers that I held, while passing the road
Freezing to ice cold before I discern you are dead
When the time ...
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Categories:
rearward, father
Form: Heroic Couplet
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