A Knife's Edge Draws Blood
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Dangers plague the rebellious world in which we live
Too much greed and vengeance. Too few willing to forgive
It's a never-ending war cry of accuse, fight, and repeat
We’re all walking along a k...
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Categories:
serape, corruption, society,
Form: Rhyme
Dreamer and the dreamed
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Written: February 19, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
as an entity in the dream, we conjured
we know not we are both the dreamer and dreamed
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Categories:
serape, character, dream,
Form: Rhyme
under ourn starz
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last evening bundled up
'round mine
it's peacock blue
warm
cotton serape
and your
n...
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Categories:
serape, beautiful, blessing, celebration, sweet
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Walking on a Knife's Edge
...Dangers plague this shambolic world in which we live
where many seek vengeance and are not apt to forgive.
It's a never-ending cycle of accuse, battle, and defeat
at any cost, walking on a kni...
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Categories:
serape, conflict, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Safe Haven For Escape
..."Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "
Quote by Constance La France
Down a lane I'd run, one bordered wi...
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Categories:
serape, depression, inspiration,
Form: Villanelle
Chile
...Endless purple flowers
and salt pools like polished mirrors
give color to the desert
and reflect the clear blue sky---
disguising with their beauty
the poor soil and salinity
of wastelands inh...
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Categories:
serape, solitude, travel,
Form: I do not know?
Tale of a Tail: a Monotetra
...This umbrella thing is not cool
I feel like such a silly fool
since I'm on my way to the pool
It's not a rule It's not a rule
It's purple satin edged with pearls
Cute when carried by litt...
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Categories:
serape, rain, silly,
Form: Monorhyme
The Fallacy of 'Once Upon a Time'
...A fallacy, that every 'once upon a time'
is a beautiful fantasy, for some hold lies
Fairytales have a hero, but also a villain
masked in sheep's clothing as a disguise
Red Riding Hood ...
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Categories:
serape, evil, people,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Logic
...He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a beer
ow...
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Categories:
serape, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 1
...Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
as we kissed when she parted, my friend.
Through those ruins...
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Categories:
serape, bird, dark, green, lost
Form: Rhyme
Bleary Autumn Day At Cape Hatteras
...Standing 'neath rocky vestige on Hatteras Cape
Overhead, sky's billowy caverns offer cerebral escape
Proffering delusions of grandeur in every size, shape
A ventilated ocean of blue; visions of bl...
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Categories:
serape, natureocean,
Form: Rhyme