Defiance
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Oh, trouble...trouble, trouble, trouble...
I refuse to let you ruffle feathers of mine.
High mountain, don't dare stand in my way;
I'll push and claw my way to your summit!
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Categories:
ruffle, conflict, endurance, inspirational, strength,
Form: Verse
Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy
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Come forth our Angel of the North
Working class…but VIP pass…standing sentry for cricketing gentry
Towering injury tarnished Talisman penury
Revarnished..primacy rebooted for his mooted destiny ...
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Categories:
ruffle, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Old Shaftesbury Woman
...Concrete dust drifts like sand across a coastal path.
An old woman battered with facial features that hung on her face,
Disconnected and hanging.
She leans forward in her blumonge, waterproof, u...
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Categories:
ruffle, character, class, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Fasten Smiles Upon Me Say
...I'm not old fashioned I'm just from a time when everything was better !
Tether me with flowers
bring me sunshine everyday !
Do not ruffle up my feathers
when I'm doing it my wa...
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Categories:
ruffle, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth About Men and Women
...***Caveat lector: This piece may very well "ruffle" a few feathers, and I'm sorry about that, guys.***
The female realm has a mysterious equality
Where women share an odd intimacy
Concerning home, and children, and men.
Somehow they seem...
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Categories:
ruffle, men, perspective, women,
Form: Free verse
To Fly
...To be like a bird and fly and fly
To touch the edge of the azure sky
to fly together, to swoop and soar
To visit the clouds forever more.
To dance with the wind, a pirouette
bask midst a gold ...
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Categories:
ruffle, bird, flying, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Contagion
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Sit back and enjoy the celestial view,
you’ve climbed a volcano to get there.
I wish for every star to shine upon you.
The definition of ‘Dreams Come True’
step out in front watch them all s...
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Categories:
ruffle, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Villanelle
I'm a Soft-Lover Dude
... I'm a soft-lover dude, something I have never tried to hide. I have always respected your mind. thoughts, and soul way before I ever wanted your body on my side.
You are so smart, so in funny and...
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Categories:
ruffle, emotions, fantasy, feelings, how
Form: Rhyme
Spring’s New Mood
...My skin’s made of flowers,
Waiting to blossom in the shade,
Fighting the urge to turn grey,
As they look desperately for—
The summer breeze of tomorrow.
Where their petals ruffle in the wind,
F...
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Categories:
ruffle, appreciation, flower, growth,
Form: Free verse
On Blennerhassett Island with Walt Whitman
...He sat on this patch of turf,
and if not this exact place a piece of a place nearby.
Naturally, I try to feel his companionship.
Did he write a line of poetry on this small island
or was he sim...
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Categories:
ruffle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Arrival
...I have reached a place
Of peace
Unhindered by expectation
No varience of action
On the part of others
Whether of positive
Or otherwise nature
May ripple the waters
Or ruffle feath...
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Categories:
ruffle, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
CHAKRAS BOLD
...CHAKRAS BOLD
HE designed root red via
a laugh so raucous creating
world wild rumbling random
rubies rolled ruling red
thunderous winds whirling
shimmering shocking floods
Emperor Suprem...
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Categories:
ruffle, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Alliteration
Garden Activity Every Day
...Delightful daisy dances in the wind
She holds a dandelion against her chin
Two daffodils have a tiny scuffle
Marigold laughs and shakes her ruffle
There is garden activity every day
Produce an...
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Categories:
ruffle, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Storm
...The golden blaze of the sun fades to night
A lurid haze of colors dance across the sky
Lurking shadows ruffle across the coastline
A spinning circle of destruction
The pitch-black sky emerges...
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Categories:
ruffle, emotions, environment, imagery, natural
Form: Tercet
Clover's In the Bottom Right-Hand Corner Doing the Best with What Circumstance Brought Her
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The ruffle of fleece at her neck
makes her feel manufactured, not born—
brushstrokes of windswept wool,
all soft edges and curves
the color of old milk.
Her lips were no artist's accident,
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Categories:
ruffle, art, extended metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis
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