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Roil Poems - Poems about Roil

Aim, Aeon
...Aim dead center, O aeon! Era, this is now. Ergo, O my stern scion; Come to anyhow! Looking-glasses are like wind. Reality grinned. Terror, tiger, tamarind! Sacred til he sinned... Gaunt t......

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Categories: roil, baptism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plagued By Memories
...Memories of whip-lashing words steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil my soul a weeping blistered sore my heart a gangrene amputee pus-green-memories rupture to plague me infection still......

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Categories: roil, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse



Dun Days
...Dun days? Clouds above in greys? Sapphire? Purple haze? Deterrence, dessicate, cays. Buildings on the raze. World around in twilight. Months ahead a-grim. Heart within me, burn with fight! C......

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Categories: roil, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
...I walk o u t... I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer dissects my essence-fossil Passion a seismic rupture betwee......

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Categories: roil, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Bone Beach
...Bone Beach 10-19-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bone Beach Over barren beachheads, Where ephemeral waves roil, Shattered tides Wonder of life left behind In empty wombs......

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Categories: roil, beach, life, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Man On Fire
...He took risks you might not have Thinking that he deserved to beat the odds Flames like heated fiery thorns Eat through his flesh numbing as they go In pain, he swirls, his muscles roil He wishe......

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Categories: roil, death, fire, identity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Sultry is the Breathless Air
...No one lit a match. no lamp spilled, the air kept kindling its hot heart, it pulsed red all day The heat-heavy evening slumped toward a simmering earth, clouds began to roil, they swirled, ......

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Categories: roil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a dance with mad molly
... 'Whatcha say we spin a jig?' she said from 'neath my tongue her almond bittersweet the queried tang ... so naught but few, the moments 'til my belfry's bell was rung and thus wit......

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Categories: roil, analogy, drug, metaphor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member big ticket
... * an updated version of a piece I wrote for my favorite baller, Kevin Garnett * ~ intensity ... defined excuses were for gods and gamblers (lesser giants with fairer feuds) HE ... w......

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Categories: roil, analogy, basketball,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barbarossa III
...A new command would counter their attack to stay the storm that harkens at your door. ‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack for nothing dared defy the wolves before. And though his pack c......

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Categories: roil, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member a pied piper on steroids
...Threats of blood baths easily roil Cult members whose sentiments boil Devotees tribal Shall get D.T.’s bible Soiled with drizzles of snake oil......

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Categories: roil, america, anger, christian, innocence,
Form: Limerick
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome... Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor nothing short of an imminent civil war dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021 oddly enough e......

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Categories: roil, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Precious Priceless Progeny
...Precious priceless progeny Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffle......

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Categories: roil, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Zen Death Haiku Iii
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU III Spring stirs the clouds in the sky's teabowl —Kikusha-ni, loose translation by Michael R. Burch Tonight I saw how the peony crumples in the fire's embers —Katoh Shuhso......

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Categories: roil, angst, animal, death, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Wave of Fantasy
... I ride this wave of fantasy that sends my desires astir. What dreams may come from the spiraling are yet to vaporize in the stars. The ebb and flow become the tide of dyspho......

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Categories: roil, confusion, dream, environment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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