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The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part Two'
...To: The Immigration Office Date: November 11th, 2024, 9:15 AM Subject: Application #47291 Focus: Limbo To Whom It May Concern, I am writing from the plastic chair in your fluorescent-......

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Categories: roofed, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Life was Simple
...When we lived beneath thatch-roofed houses, Curry simmered in pots, Flames flickered from firewood gathered From hills and thickets. When bullock carts creaked Under paddy loads, Harvests rea......

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Categories: roofed, memory, simple,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A City Beautiful
... Ottawa, Ontario once a desolate snowfield now, a city of Gothic and Victorian buildings downtown with stunning glassed towers a mingling of architecture's copper-roofe......

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Categories: roofed, city,
Form: Name
Premium Member A Secret Escape To A Heavenly Ancient Place
...Tell me Have you ever felt you could runway Far away to a secret place Where time stands still The hot sun mostly shows its beaming face. Well come! Take my hand And I'll take you to that pl......

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Categories: roofed, beautiful, bible, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse
A Dying Winter
... It was a harsh, hard going season. “It’s a dying winter, lad,” he said, crunching words around, a gnawed pipe stem. Briefly embers sought a place to disappear. Cinder gray eyes, set deep in......

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Categories: roofed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Once Upon a Long Ago
... ~ Once upon a long ago... Three kids were raised on my family's farm I am the middle child who spent more time working in the fields with Dad, my Galahad, for I found household......

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Categories: roofed, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild West Rest Stop
...A carriage stops by a water trough and an empty roofed stable with a long bench. Driver helps folks and gets a drink. He returns, tells all they leave in one minute. A man of no rank says ......

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Categories: roofed, america, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Autumn
...Schools ring out with the sighs of freedom lost, empty hearts break as a summer love moves along. Bright wildflowers fade under the burden of frost, birds fill the air with the tunes of migrating ......

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Categories: roofed, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Value of Books
...The value of books Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking into the sea beyond the seas. The townscape is......

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Categories: roofed, anti bullying, best friend,
Form: Blitz
Old and New 1: Circus
...OLD AND NEW 1 : CIRCUS Giraffe on anxious heels bought in Sandton, toddle along with intense haste a dream point unheard lipstick smudges, mascara leaks of AK47 dust she rifled Bullfrog......

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Categories: roofed, africa, change, conflict, emotions,
Form: Political Verse
Boy and Barn
...Bitty birds scuffle and flounce under the roofed-in. Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle. Snuffle go the whiskered, the mousy muzzle's all along the bent beam wood. A pepper powdering in th......

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Categories: roofed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gulls Ride Upon the High Sea's Tongue
...What crashes into them is the oceans voice beheaded. Seabirds skim upon verge and crest, a green swell of rise and fall. Open mouths trawl the air then plunge into a rising wave to scoop a ......

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Categories: roofed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Danger Island Dumb-Dumbs
...We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb: Scare the blazes out of a management bum. Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound, Feisty gales pouring rain all around. My partner an......

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Categories: roofed, animal, boat, drink, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Ill Wind Blows
...Under storm we are today eunice outside is blasting away The dome in London taking a hit, partly de-roofed and some parts did flit Onto the river being not far, over some of its surface, damagin......

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Categories: roofed, confusion, culture, environment, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
... Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines To witness two modern boxing Gladiators Their prowess, stature, about to be seen This will be the th......

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Categories: roofed, character, history, men, places,
Form: Rhyme

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