Poetry: a Panacea For Poets
...The cud I rechewed // in the riverside // was from a sett of dreadful hemlock // that struck the aquifers of my soul.
Blight glue my night // as mournful as the grave-in my streets // silence defe...
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Categories:
sett, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Spring
...twitching noses
in tussocks
of awakened primroses
rummaging on hazel boles
hibernating mammals
poke from the holes
leafless hedgerows
where buds now form
a carpet of whit...
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Categories:
sett, spring,
Form: Pastoral
February
...W I N T E R
B R E A K S
N A T U R E
A W A K E S
G A R D E N
A S L E E P
&
an oldie reposted
Fields flooded into skating rinks
into which each footstep sinks,
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Categories:
sett, february, word play,
Form: Shape
I B a D a N
...A city on a set of hills and valleys
Rusty brown roofings a symphony
Of rhythms in colourful harmony
Ibadan a large city with a village sett.
A cauldron of the old and the new;
The
Present
A...
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Categories:
sett, africa, character, education, environment,
Form: Ballad
Porc and Cabbage Higareda
...whast dos' he sing of me
that he samples this as
love
that they might stop
to write
and sing this as love
must samples be tasted
and talked about
to create words
to speak
lesser of
what ...
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Categories:
sett, appreciation, chocolate, creation, culture,
Form: Ballad
Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
...Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads began bobbing and eyes were agaze.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The combine is coming to harvest the field!’
The moles and the v...
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Categories:
sett, angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Nature In Hedgerows
...inspired by contest nature theme
Beneath the undergrowth deep
Awakening from a winter sleep,
Hedgehogs stir in nocturnal nuzzle,
Uncurl their defensive puzzle;
Shrews,woodmice and voles
Quive...
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Categories:
sett, nature, seasons,
Form: Pastoral
Habitatation
...Habitation Swap quatrain.
At full moon wolves howl loudly
Obscured from view, so cloudy,
mist hovers over nearby lagoon
Wolves howl loudly at full moon,
Owls hunt with stealth unseen
V...
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Categories:
sett, animal, bird, identity, nature,
Form: Quatrain
As Darkness Descends
...As the sun slowly sets beneath the horizon
the world starts to turn to night's darkness
the shadows gradually lengthen then fade
and a stillness covers the land with mystery
This is the time fo...
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Categories:
sett, dark, moon, night, sun,
Form: Verse
Christmas Fire Place
...it soon be the tree
candy youll see
drum bang
a hey hang
on the tree heavenly
only will sett face to face
by the
CHRISTMAS FIRE PLACE...
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Categories:
sett, places,
Form: Light Verse
The Masters
...h when i was truth i fell
drew boy i grew up
still def still be a cre4ators tool
wipers for the pain tears drop
fear not, fret no baby worrys from the devil. whispers on my ear xrtays , be very afrai...
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Categories:
sett, christian, courage, dad, dark,
Form: Rhyme
The Murder of Civilisation
...An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert
Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers and the Zu...
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Categories:
sett, patriotic, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Bliss Found By Known Site
...Tho join holly the sample is data
Diurnal, in cheek by jowl site
Intimacy is over deeds by, in bliss
Gloss your eyes of tender
Special in upon pulling out love
In sharp finding of a sett
Tha...
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Categories:
sett, devotion, faith, sympathy,
Form: Lyric
Winter Turns To Spring
...Snowfall so heavy in 'eighty-two
reproduced a Christmas card view.
A biting wind swirled in one foot drifts
over hanging in bridges..makeshift.
The fields flooded into skating rinks
into wh...
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Categories:
sett, nature, seasons,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hedgerows
...Beneath the undergrowth deep
Awakening from a winter sleep,
Hedgehogs stir in nocturnal nuzzle,
Uncurl their defensive puzzle;
Shrews,woodmice and voles
Quiver,and quickly desert their holes;
B...
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Categories:
sett, nature, seasons,
Form: Pastoral
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