Matildas Concert in Hinde
...Movement Shod
Heeling halt
Abbreviated democracy
Flank in route
Gaurd maneuver out
Folded company
Beret for address
Redress complete
Back in Britain
Marina Ann Hantzis
Princes...
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Categories:
reddened, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Ended in misery
...The heat creeps into the empty fabric
only getting colder
inside the tightly closed gray jacket
no warmth of jokes and laughter
nor embraces that are increasingly glowing
please, close your eyes...
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Categories:
reddened, allusion, bereavement, devotion, feelings,
Form: Free verse
boy scouts
...as we walk upon, rocky of sands
where the waves lapses
so close to knocking us over...
where the crabs with little
claws can still cause pain
despite their small sizes,
Red are their colors
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Categories:
reddened, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Never A Gain
...I’ve been asked to explain the words ‘Never A Gain’!
So I’ll limn it here plain, all that’s ‘Never A Gain’:
Death, destruction and pain define Never A Gain,
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Categories:
reddened, death, history, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Procession
...If you were to ask me
Be the one to catch me, before i take the fall
You'd be the only one waiting, afterall
For whence i open my mouth and
Spill a sea of pills tinged with reddened liquor
I th...
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Categories:
reddened, dad, for him, sorry,
Form: Free verse
When Yellow Flower Was Dyed Orange Then Red
...In this summer month of her what would have been her 21st birthday,
I see bed of withering red orange tiger lilies and say,
"Your death reddened you, yellow flower, into an orange, then red."...
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Categories:
reddened, death, flower, grief, loss,
Form: Sijo
Under the brass sky of Iashy city, our steps dance in the night
...Under the brass sky of Iashy city, our steps dance in the night,
Through dusty streets where old buildings hide forgotten stories,
With beer mugs like ephemeral treasures in hands that tremble,
Be...
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Categories:
reddened, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Translations IV
...CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV
These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love.
Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
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Categories:
reddened, autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
IrReligious MisEducation
...S/he is controversially counter-cultural
And yet,
MotherEartha defensively claims,
not so:
We grow trans-regenerational
transubstantiating substances
and subjects
to integrate more sacredl...
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Categories:
reddened, god, health, peace, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Old Man
...Old Man
his weatherbeaten face, lined
with the hills and valleys of age
watery blue eyes set against a
backdrop of bloodshot white
his cheeks reddened from
sun and alcohol, his aquiline
nose...
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Categories:
reddened, age,
Form: Free verse
deep crime
...inside if mind
no less of ledged, against
you bet, wild
that i didn't wink
sworn to soar over with oath
in torn battled threads
instill
i'd fend
often from wherever
in between needles,...
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Categories:
reddened, america, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Broken Sacrifice
...Broken Sacrifice?
Left as a sacrifice
Bound in chains her only shield from the elements
A cloak lined in ermine and rabbit fur
Keeping her warm as the rains fall
All watched the ceremony ...
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Categories:
reddened, beautiful, betrayal, courage, dream,
Form: Ballad
WEDDING
...
On reddish twilight,
couple young and bright
in love at first sight.
Flowing emotion
on new relation.
Though they met by chance.
She blushed ...
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Categories:
reddened, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Death I Romanticize once I Think of You
..."With every fiber of my being, my eyes glimpse at my whole life gone avail and unjust; the sacrifice mother had made before birth was certainly not enough, wish I had gone through the flames of
Nor...
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Categories:
reddened, absence, abuse, addiction, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Under the leaden sky, the rain drips its melancholy in the rhythm of cold tears
...Under the leaden sky, the rain drips its melancholy in the rhythm of cold tears,
On my stained oak coffin, the tattered shirt absorbs the crimson hues,
Where the earth churns in the silence of my e...
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Categories:
reddened, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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