Bloom Mirror Oddquain
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Bloom
at midnight
surrounded by smoke;
Fly when it is all pitch black!
Blaze!
Burn!
Rival a blanket of stars;
Electrifie...
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Categories:
rival(a), emotions, feelings, night,
Form: Other
Beard
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I once sported a manly beard,
a beastly beard had I.
But then on the farm, at the crack of dawn,
while my lady cheered,
she chopped it off, and while the cows mockingly mooed,
I quietly cried....
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Categories:
rival(a), absence, beauty, funny, hair,
Form: Rhyme
Bite
...Mostly seen when there is a bitter fight,
Victory more important than shown might;
One’s rival a completely hateful sight
Whether he lived or died a matter light…
Watching a crocodile’s one tur...
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Categories:
rival(a), food, hate, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
To the Nines
...Dressed to the nines, but with a lethal twist,
her cover blown, enacts her exit plan.
Those lips, a deep vermillion, never missed;
cotillion entrance stops hearts for a span.
A needle in the brac...
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Categories:
rival(a), betrayal,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Sing, Lyre: Sappho Translation
...Sappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.
"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is appare...
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Categories:
rival(a), Lullaby, muse, music, song,
Form: Epigram
Sea Turtles
...A foggy night just tip-toes in
Like a whisper on a cloud.
And the haloed harbor lights above
Warmly welcome the sparse inlet crowd.
The briney salt air softly beckons me
To heed the seagulls' ...
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Categories:
rival(a), animal, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Anatomy of a Dream
...The night has recruited
All of its darkness to swim
Through the eyes of those ones
Who might dream in their storybook
Land of the past and the present right
Into a sequence of awesome bright fut...
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Categories:
rival(a), imagination, life
Form: Free verse