Before The Gates Of Alahsar - Version - 2 -31
...Fierce goblins rode these wolves,
their curved scimitars, raining death,
their fierce visage could freeze the heart,
they moved with the giant spiders,
death comes in so many ways.
The battle on...
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Categories:
scimitars, dark, death, dream, evil,
Form: Epic
Dawn's Enchanted Meadow
...You say you caught a miserable cold, child,
And mother won’t let you play?
“When dawn drifts into enchanted meadows”
Is just the tale for you today!
The silent meadow comes alive at dawn
With ...
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Categories:
scimitars, beauty, bird, butterfly, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Festive Bohemian Heart
...Delusional scimitars
festive daggers
soft balalaika
captive sword ...
Mandolins,
hot nights
harps, wine
poison,...
dangers
daggers
Banjo and
boldness,
gypsy waltz,
ruby joy ...
I desire...
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Categories:
scimitars, allegory, allusion, celebration, extended
Form: Free verse
Gypsy Heart
...Gypsy heart
Delusional Scimitars
festive daggers
soft balalaika
captive sword ...
Mandolins,
hot nights
harps and wine
venom of passion, ...
dangers
daggers
Banjo and
boldness,
gypsy wal...
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Categories:
scimitars, allusion, analogy, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Regatta
...a sparkling expanse, lapping the horizon,
crinkled by the weight of torrential bright
the airborne eye, squinting,
catches sight of a flotilla,
parallel, bloodless gashes on liquid lapis,...
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Categories:
scimitars, boat, light, sea, summer,
Form: Free verse
Swifts
...Watch them on this Summer’s night –
They hunt and sleep upon the wing,
Scything through the fading light
With high-pitched screams – they never sing.
High in the humid air they sail
Like scimi...
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Categories:
scimitars, bird, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Fight
...Standing before an invisible army,
The boy stands watching from behind their hidden lines,
Peering into their smiling cheeks and jowls.
Returning the smirking favor, he holds up his electric hand...
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Categories:
scimitars, change, child, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
A Pinholed Labyrinth
...Lame sunrises and midday sunsets
Fangs in words and perils in laughters
Sweet archs of smiling fires and silky shouts in talking forests
I come from the bitter of cobstones paved down the coalfie...
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Categories:
scimitars, identity, meaningful, mirror, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Moons Yellow Eyes
...The Moon’s Yellow Eyes
After: The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers
Situations righted by the assassination in Sheepshead Bay (alibied with difficulty under earth’s single moon), ...
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Categories:
scimitars, evil, farewell,
Form: Haibun
Of Angels and Unicorns
...We've been here for an eternity
Walking amongst you,
You know us,
And what we're here to do.
I've died a hundred times,
Nearly a thousand years.
The first death,
On the Horns of Hattin
A ti...
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Categories:
scimitars, adventure, angel, beautiful, bible,
Form: Prose Poetry
Liatra
...Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and figh...
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Categories:
scimitars, dance, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
The Palace Guardiennes
...The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studde...
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Categories:
scimitars, adventure, arabic, courage, irony,
Form: Free verse
White Terns
...Come fly with me
said she
One good tern
deserves
another
And did I so yearn
with her to share
the air
Up we soared
and down we roared
between the sea's deep blue
and sky's paler hue
Be...
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Categories:
scimitars, bird,
Form: Free verse
Categories of Fishes Oh Wow
...A puddle of fish. A fountain. A silver dish. Never try to outpace a whale as they are particularly good at breaststroke. And please don't slam the lid on the peanuts in a tin as they rather like to l...
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Categories:
scimitars, beach,
Form: I do not know?
The Cornmarket Incident
...Pavement cafe, nine fifteen cradling a coffee (as you do)
from my left the china doll with clicking heels strode into view.
Tempting lips kissy-kissed with crimson, cheeks caressed
with blush, an...
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Categories:
scimitars, love hurts, pain,
Form: Light Verse
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