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Scrimshaw Poems - Poems about Scrimshaw

Premium Member Betrayal in Whelm of the sea
...All around me, the ugliness and rays. Those scrimshaw eyes, I’m dizzy with the haze. My pulsepoint jumped, too cozy with our friend. My arms and legs, in seesaw wave, betrays. My husband gr......

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Categories: scrimshaw, sea,
Form: Rubaiyat
Concentrated
...I find that modern concentration camps are now hygienically focused, fully concentrated upon themselves. There, every glass wall is a two-way mirror for the neatly dressed minds of swamp dwelle......

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Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Hollow Waves
...Sharks swim in their bones, the little teeth of little fish hollow whales away. Shrimp and krill scrimshaw a limitless hunger upon the white crests of dark waves. On a basking beac......

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Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Insomnia Man
...When he talks his tongue articulates with his every joint words grate upon his mind. When he speaks the house creaks. He reclines in a slow simmer of embers. Fog rises where his thoughts s......

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Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Is For Dead Poets
...Trees turn their features inward. Cool winds wander in like stray cats. A fiery death is in the air. the party colors are flame and ash. Leafy campfires burn the residue of mammoth bones ......

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Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
...The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein are entirely unsolicited, uncompensate......

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Categories: scrimshaw, mythology,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Book of Kings - 1 Kings 16:31-33
...Ahab needed shore leave, And obsessed so on his dream, Harpooning some sweet harlot Had become his major theme. He was just a novice mariner, His first time far from home. He’d made his maid......

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Categories: scrimshaw, allegory, bible, humor, literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member If I Knew How To Carve a Scrimshaw
...If I knew how to carve a scrimshaw I would carve the world’s prettiest scene I would carve out a catfish jumping out of a lake After I carved a frog sitting on a lily pad I would carve one on a d......

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Categories: scrimshaw, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stock Market Drivel
...Torrid sunshine blisters reign on pavement, that colour coded coffee stain slipway, bearer of insole-laden footwear, open source channel for glib hot air calculus from starchy social climber, sto......

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Categories: scrimshaw, art, character, courage, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Talent and Skill
...The mellow chords of a cello draw tears as its bow vibrates a combo of strings. For when that sound found its way to my ears, it tore my heart apart and clipped my wings. The violin, ak......

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Categories: scrimshaw, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eskimo Imagining
...An Arctic fox casts a shadowed glance Sideways on the frozen glassy lake, slipping Pigeon like, gingerly, through fractured light Images of a swollen moon swallows up the night Wanderlust for ......

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Categories: scrimshaw, animal, child, hope, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Price of Free Will
...Medicine Hat Appaloosa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember free will too has been gifted, with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice. Tendered......

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Categories: scrimshaw, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet
Chair of Fire
...Chair of Fire My father's naughehyde recliner was the dusky, sudden pink of pale pigs. Hair-oil halo Scrimshaw headrest He died in bed My brother, Richard, did not weep... he hosed ou......

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Categories: scrimshaw, death, deep, write,
Form: Blank verse
Chair of Fire
Categories: scrimshaw, death, father daughter, write,
Form: Blank verse
Epitaph of the Dragon
...Chained to these walls of despair I was condemned by a Judas race. Assassins’ wait on every corner hiding in the lights of man looking for my face. To be last of your species is a lonely place in lo......

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Categories: scrimshaw, dark,
Form: Free verse

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