Curtains-not for contest
...On a ship
Poet (Po)
Reason (Re)
Po: Look at the billow of the sails,
the sea, its black and blue hails.
Re: I’ve seen it before, even now and again.
I miss the pines outside my ...
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Categories:
ripcord, anxiety, music, scary, sea,
Form: Verse
Parachute
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When darkness styled me for a while
He deftly like a surgeon broke the spell
Begin we dropping dangled from a chute
From above we land one step from hell
Remember … You jumped and ...
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Categories:
ripcord, creation, life,
Form: Rhyme
December Humour
...THE SAILOR
There was a young sailor from Rothesay
Sailed his yacht around the bay of Biscay
But a storm sunk his boat
He's no longer afloat
And the wind blew his life raft away...
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Categories:
ripcord, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Paul Dice
...Ameliorate the sensation sans being caught
between the devil and the dark blue sea,
This tethered to the oblate spheroid earthling
doth strive toward savoir-faire re:
As the fickle finger...
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Categories:
ripcord, angel, appreciation, blessing, character,
Form: Ode
Duplex
...1941
harbor
warm with
heartbeats
pulses
friendship
villain
planes fly
above
sunday’s
ripcord
is cut
sailors
are trapped
they scream
for help
nice day
explodes
on la...
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Categories:
ripcord, war,
Form: Verse
Sometimes It Hurts
...Sometimes it hurts
It hurts so bad, the need to love.
It hurts so much it feels like I’m ripping my own heart out
The strings of my heart tug and it’s like an emotional ripcord.
My heart tearing ...
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Categories:
ripcord, loveheart, change, heart, me,
Form: I do not know?
Shoot the Moon
...I cannot still believe my karma
When all drab hope expired
And with it my faith
In humanity -
We met.
I do not question Fate,
It's snakelike ripcord slither;
I accept whole the dream
For fe...
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Categories:
ripcord, devotion, faith, love,
Form: Verse