Water-Borne
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Seen as a collection of spare parts
swimming in close formation
neither fish nor fowl
from a southern hemisphere nation
sewn together as if torn asunder
the amphibian antipodean
from ...
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Categories:
riparian, animal, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
A Little West Indian River History
..."There's a river meandering through the mind,"
older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge
over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away
from a warring Englishman behind
absconding by canoe ...
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Categories:
riparian, city, history, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
The Penetralia Ruby Queen Lyrics
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Professed, nonwarranted kinfolk attest upon the secret florist
Herald stewards, forbear! Striplings, go not to entice the fawn’s forest
Yonder snowy peaks, betwixt pearls, radiates the pinkest a...
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Categories:
riparian, beautiful, creation, fantasy, flower,
Form: Lyric
Literate lettered latitudinarian looms larger than life
...I feel honored, and flattered to acquaint myself (a married youthful looking sexagenarian solitudinarian from southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania), yet feel awkward at jump/kick starting a r...
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Categories:
riparian, adventure, autumn, celebration, fun,
Form: Free verse
Puddin and Tritina
...Swimming in the blind; feeling by electricity
Puddin found her without ever eying; the food he was relying
Their connection developed slowly; for neither found the other clutch
They shifted emot...
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Categories:
riparian, children, devotion, father, love,
Form: Tritina
A Symphony of Sunset
...Written: September 08, 2023
Sunsets Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Natasha L Scragg
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In September golden ...
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Categories:
riparian, analogy, appreciation, beauty, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Recombobulating Chaos
...thoughts lick at my consciousness
distracting me from the warm embrace
of the colour pallet unfolding
I stare with myopic eyes at the kaleidoscope
endeavouring to discern the demarcation
of th...
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Categories:
riparian, nature,
Form: Free verse
Literate Lettered Latitudinarian
...Literate lettered latitudinarian
Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sens...
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Categories:
riparian, 12th grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
The River
...The River
The swirling stream in slow eddies flows along,
In bright sun flecked ripples the Grey Heron wades.
Where Water Coltsfoot, Alder and Birch belong
A swift kin...
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Categories:
riparian, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
Brother
...Brother
Riparian observers watch waters pass
left behind, huddled in loss
our tears added to the flow
memories blazoned in our mind
with each tenuous gasp
we pound the bare earth
love and lo...
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Categories:
riparian, remember,
Form: Free verse
Not Kneeling
...From neglect comes deviation, electrifying radiation, like a leaf in the shadow,
Drying stanza so bore-some, a bit much candidly said,
In the Sun thinly it is spread,
As it comes to - an End.
Unp...
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Categories:
riparian, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Intensity River and Lake- -
... Intensity RIVER AND LAKES—
The lands have a sore throat;
Because of this harsh winter;
Like a trachea a winding way to the mouth;
Also does a river flows it too has water a mouth;
T...
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Categories:
riparian, analogy, conflict, river,
Form: Free verse
The Penetralia Ruby Queen
...Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Th...
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Categories:
riparian, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy,
Form: I do not know?
The Troll and the Spinster
...One evening an old ailurophile strolled through a forest with her blackest of cats,
To brood on her once goldenrod hair and the callipygous bottom on which she once sat.
Her head hung low upon sh...
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Categories:
riparian, beauty, fantasy, fate,
Form: Couplet