Eagle’s Challenge
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meet me on high in limpid luminescent sky
from whence you’ll catch my twigs perhaps
there I cloudless am guided to harlequin horizons
precision ...
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Categories:
sagely, allegory, bird, change, character,
Form: Ballad
SEA WANTS ME
... SEA WANTS ME
Waves are here for the winners
spirals floating in turquoise
dance ululating undulating
blue bright sight
a point with paddle board
to soar sanguine Seas
I know not w...
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Categories:
sagely, 12th grade, adventure, emotions,
Form: Ballad
SAPPED ROOTED SOULS
...With our soul’s valleys
watered with God’s wet spirit,
and his healing love,
be as trees of divine sap
sagely rooted in his work:-
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Categories:
sagely, analogy, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Tanka
HOLOGRAPHIC JAZZ
...(Snaps fingers, adjusts imaginary beret) Alright, listen up/ hitching a ride on the infinite subway/ strapped in tight/ destinations unknown/ no layover/LSD boosting, pushing past the earthly zone/
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Categories:
sagely, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
chinese soup
...( a college life vignette)
It’s Thursday morning, usually no one’s favorite, but this one seems sugary new, as if beamed in from a different, better universe. The clouds look fluffy and f...
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Categories:
sagely, father, father daughter, friendship,
Form: Free verse
To love or not to love
...Once I felt the patent feeling acutely too,
A spark within, a flame anew,
Wouldn't deter the impetus will that took me in,
A journey's start, with heart and kin.
Once I was in love in those tim...
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Categories:
sagely, cute love, for her,
Form: I do not know?
As I Went to Sleep
...I was innocent as I went to sleep,
But soon I would be in trouble, deep.
My problems would pile up in a heap
As I went to sleep, to sleep.
I began to nap, blameless and free,
Without a tro...
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Categories:
sagely, dream, murder, prison,
Form: Rhyme
pork pie
...pork pie
I had gone to a poetry meeting
the organizer had supplied pork pie and tea
Nothing was expected of me, all I had to do
was to nod my head sagely and applaud
the readers.
A female...
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Categories:
sagely, absence, angel, animal, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
FLAME OF ASCENSION
...FLAME OF ASCENSION
No-one can escape Flame of Ascension
a glance, a glimmer, a gestalted shadow
ghosts or gestures guarded Hearts to
genteel progress on a path
It night...
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Categories:
sagely, 12th grade, allegory, extended
Form: Alliteration
Great Expectations
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great expectations
anticipated in the
poetic heart
Havisham delivered
all and more for love,
a separate unseen thief,
tore the others’ worlds apart
webs like ectoplasm
from underneath...
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Categories:
sagely, dark, muse, satire,
Form: Free verse
Just A Little Absurd
...Spending our time
in life’s wondrous rut
hoarding the good times
like a squirrel his nut
hope sagely nourished
by ideas not yet born
the endless dilemma
of the truly forlorn
the heartbrea...
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Categories:
sagely, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...
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Categories:
sagely, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Early Poems Xxii
...Canticle: an Aubade
Michael R. Burch
Misty morning sunlight hails the dawning of new day;
dreams drift into drowsiness before they fade away.
Dew drops on the green grass echo splendors of the ...
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Categories:
sagely, 10th grade, aubade, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Old Man Owl
...old man owl
fuzzy around the beak
yellow eyes understanding the forest
today he will let the wife hunt
he stays in the oak tree dispersing advice
being sagely wise...
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Categories:
sagely, animal,
Form: Free verse
Strange and Magical Lifetime
...Strange and magical lifetime
By Michelle Morris
18/12/2022
I have so many stories to tell
Of a strange and magical lifetime
And of craziness and hell
That I have somehow survived
Sometime...
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Categories:
sagely, endurance, life, magic, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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