SATURN GOD OF TIME
...Saturn ! You magnetised with
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round
like fairy rings
said you had so much
Love to give I...
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Categories:
scuttled, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Rhyme
Charlie Sheepdog Has a Scare
...Shetland Sheepdog Charlie jumped high in the air
Sheep he could handle, but this creature was unfair
As far as he knew it was an alien or a creature from far away
I was lucky to have my camera tha...
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Categories:
scuttled, animal, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Queen Bee Has All the Rights
...Queen bee had twin girls, one and two.
Who would succeed her? Who would do?
Other bees made suggestions, but they were silly.
Don’t be ignorant queenie said. Her name was Milly.
Maybe one could...
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Categories:
scuttled, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other...
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Categories:
scuttled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Befuddled
...She wiggled and jiggled and giggled in bed
It fiddled and faddled and rattled her head
But she wiggled so much that she fell to the floor
And wiggled and jiggled and giggled some more
He ...
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Categories:
scuttled, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Shipwreck She Salvaged
...She came aboard my sinking ship
a death blow to the bow,
attempts to bail and keep afloat
this mariners tattered sails.
Plot a new course and navigate
in storms and angry seas,
this vessel li...
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Categories:
scuttled, change, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Sand and Sea
...The sandy beach and the ocean
obviously do not understand each other.
Each wave falls upon the shore,
as if it had never met that shore before.
The sand attempts to flow away,
yet scuttled c...
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Categories:
scuttled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dark Side of Night
...The clouds scuttled across the night sky
obscuring from sight the silvery moon.
Which managed sometimes to peep out
covering the land with shadowed light.
In the shadows appeared mystical shapes...
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Categories:
scuttled, dark, moon, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bells
...It was the bronzed bell of a tinseled Ocean ship.
Until destiny was scuttled by a fiery water witch.
In time, it became the haunting clang upon a reef.
A macabre Nic Nac for cliques that ruled t...
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Categories:
scuttled, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Sundown
...Sundown came fast,
the fat Blue Heeler
lolling under the low picket fence
suddenly jerked his head up
as if someone had turned the lights out.
A startled Magpie scuttled over the hedgerow
maybe...
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Categories:
scuttled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trojan Horse
...PythonPotamus, "Abaddon" Quetzacoatliciously rises from the pit.
Helliopolis' ruins remains; "in the thick of it."
Ra, "Familiars the breeze" a God-imposter, sedicious, piece of Set.
Set Ing the...
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Categories:
scuttled, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Homeless
...Last time he checked the Gate remained locked. Verdant shadows reflect soft running steams falling into still pools. Rushing to hushed sounds abated in calm. Evergreen foliage radiant, vibrant, waiti...
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Categories:
scuttled, father, lost love, word
Form: Haibun
The Part
...An amazing event occurred,
as I was making my way to the theater.
On approaching the playhouse
I saw my own self leaving a back-stage door.
I appeared to be in beggars' rags.
A strange and fur...
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Categories:
scuttled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tastes Like Home
...The salmon tasted like the seashore,
like salty air and gulls crying,
flying overhead on the cold breeze.
It tasted like relatives coming together
around a picnic table, laughing,
talking as...
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Categories:
scuttled, childhood, food, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Bag of Spiders
...When I pulled open the bag laden with captives
Their eyes breathed a great sigh of relief
Pouring out of the bag like a plague
They scuttled off towards the freedom trail
And wove silken webs to ...
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Categories:
scuttled, dark, freedom, mystery, prison,
Form: Free verse
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