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Testimony

...I recall by chance the astuteness of rain
When the thin smoke from charged pulses of cold haze
Befriended the weeded way . . .
Leering further into the viscera of the village,
Clouds of old begin...
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Categories: rummaged, community, culture, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRummaged

...Rummage
If you must.
My presence here
Is based on trust

So dressed am I
In Summer svelte
Yet you're to check
My trousers belt;

I'm scanned 
As if each cell is rogue
So scrutinised
Desp...
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Categories: rummaged, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Poem I Tried to Write

...I sat with pen, with page snow-white, 
 to sculpt a verse, to birth some light— 
 but all my thoughts just slipped away 
 like shy young clouds who won’t stay. 

No poet’s muse knocked at my doo...
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Categories: rummaged, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Seasonal Shades

...Shadows drink a wall lamp.
Winter switches the porch light on.
The cat claims its space
beneath curled head and tail.
Earlier,
a kind of daylight
scratched ice into vision,
I rummaged into dar...
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Categories: rummaged, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeath of a Poet

...“When the pen falls silent that once danced to the muse’s command and when the poet’s heart no longer beats with rhyme, we realize that the poet in us is dead. It is a sad truth difficult to reckon.”...
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Categories: rummaged, death, pain, poetess,
Form: Elegy



Frosted Smiles

...The night falls deeper
And the pain anguishes 
In the embracing laughter
The dewing ire of happiness
Falls in my lap
After the long showers of saddening
In the shady cave
The decked up soothin...
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Categories: rummaged, 12th grade, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Free verse

I Looked For You

...I looked for you
You weren’t there

I looked for you
And you weren’t there

I looked back at what started at me
Instantly
Panic consumed me

I looked all over that room for me
In drawers, ...
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Categories: rummaged, absence, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChapter 29 -- Damian Delilah Friends and Family: Damian's Friends

...Dolly was supposed to see
Doctor Ibis this same day. She
Showered and dressed.  She
Sat on the bed and began 
Waking Damian. "Baby, wake up
Wake my love."  She shook 
him. He turned onto his ba...
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Categories: rummaged, birth, confidence,
Form: Alliteration

Memories of One's Stay At a Children's Home

...We were just children of different ages,
From varied places brought on different days  
By the police to that one children’s home.
At first, we did not know each other’s name,
But we soon develop...
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Categories: rummaged, childhood, children, family, friendship,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberSatchel of Ordinaries

...I sat quietly staring out the porthole window
As we were passing over a village in the low hills
A cumulus cloud casting over its ominous shadow
Far below in the silence of the engine’...
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Categories: rummaged, flying, imagination, people, places,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberEarly Summer In the Meadow

...Taking my first summer stroll in the meadow,
I marveled at the new growth and flowers
The sun was shining full blast, not a single shadow
My mind rummaged through its ivory towers.
Wi...
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Categories: rummaged, beauty, betrayal, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Futile Search

...In my quest after happiness
I strayed looking it here and there
It remained elusive, often out of reach 
As the pot of gold at the tip of a rainbow,

I looked to the skies seeking it...
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Categories: rummaged, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLandsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 36

...They were joined by Ceridfen, Lumi, Gwaldon and several others a bit later in
the day for a late mid-day meal.  Seileach, the efficient elf that he was, had already forwarded a letter containing spe...
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Categories: rummaged, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberLove Lifted Me

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I spent so many years searching for the way… to joy and peace, a feeling of security. There were days when I was lost among the worries and fears. My tears were always there for me, in ...
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Categories: rummaged, blessing, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberDamage Control

...With thoughts of getting fish-faced on a Friday night, 
I dropped anchor in a portside bar 
To contemplate the crooked path to closing time; 
Couldn’t guarantee I’d get that far.

I ordered a te...
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Categories: rummaged, allegory, relationship,
Form: Burlesque

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