July first two thousand and twenty five
...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.
Expanse of green...
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Categories:
redoubts, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Fringe Benefits a Plug For Perks Yo Man Living At 2 Highland Manor Drive
...Fringe benefits (a plug) for perks (yo man) living at 2 highland manor drive
Expanse of green acres draped
like a petticoat when ye arrive
birds of a feather flock together
and bees gather coll...
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Categories:
redoubts, adventure, age, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
...Cadaverous climate controlled cave creature
(Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated
from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes
On 5 August 2018,
a destructive and shallow earthquake
measuring Mw 6...
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Categories:
redoubts, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To a Soldier - a Trilogy
...LETTER TO A SOLDIER
A Trilogy
I. SONGS OF LOVE
Love walked with me
In the crisp fall air
In a shower of gold and red.
Love showed me the print
Of a doe’s foot
And where she made her be...
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Categories:
redoubts, absence, america, death, emotions,
Form: Ballad
A Walk In the Woods
...The mist hangs low. No panic though,
no cause for distress, just mustard - and cress
adorns the forest floor, no roar, just the soaring
of woodcock, no shock of the dead, just the red
of poppies...
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Categories:
redoubts, remembrance day, war,
Form: Free verse
Washington's Miracle, Part Ii
......It also left their powder pretty wet,
but their was something command had foreseen,
and they brought extra artillery guns,
less vulnerable to the moisture’s sheen.
Washington hoped they’d ma...
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Categories:
redoubts, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
...(Idea engendered from Lombok earthquake: Indonesia)
Nary a chink of illumination pierces thru
thick cavernous rock solid chamber home
to this crepuscular anchorite,
who spent untold countl...
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Categories:
redoubts, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Mother Earth Day
...Within womb universe’s birth
nebulous placenta housed
seeds of life and white lily
billions of years in future
mid-wifery lady Madonna i.e. Gaia
twill abort... cancel... fail
cosmic amnioti...
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Categories:
redoubts, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Victory Woods, Or the Battle of Saratoga
...That day in the October sun
The British they marched along
Across Mater Barber’s wheat field
A force in red, quite strong.
The drummer drummed, fifers they played
We heard their martial song,
A...
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Categories:
redoubts, america, freedom, history, independence
Form: Narrative
Verities
...The moon was moving
stealthily in wilderness.
Time was running out
tracing the shape.
I let her go, the
comely thing, putting on
hold, the teetering
poem.
Running faster than light, the
words catc...
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Categories:
redoubts, art,
Form: ABC