Back To the Future
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I
On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek
follows a road to the Firth in the bay.
Where old friends old glory and old times seek
merrily unconcerned by ...
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Categories:
shags, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Pare Wharf
...On the seawall a rocky jutting shore
and white breasted gulls and shags flit the sky.
Yes, there was a time but not anymore
I gazed the stars over Whenuapai.
Crazed by lunar tide and hear...
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Categories:
shags, memory, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Sheep And Other Animals
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I: Sheep
(A poem about Covid)
next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.
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Categories:
shags, allegory, animal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Bless My Sole
...My soles are set free when I walk in my house,
Free once I walk through the door.
My soles are free to feel every emotion,
When they walk all over the floor,
On the deep piles of plush, which...
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Categories:
shags, funny, humorous, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Spring of Substance
...SPRING OF SUBSTANCE
Adorable word drawing a rainbow of substance-- SPRING
Benumb snow-white cloak that drapes the earth,
charmed by strips of golden s...
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Categories:
shags, environment, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Abecedarian
After the Storm
...Father had no choice the court order was clear,
we were taken to that dark place of fear.
They took our nice clothes and gave us rags,
like children of the street dressed in shags.
Abused and beate...
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Categories:
shags, abuse, betrayal, childhood, confusion,
Form: Couplet
Black Poison
...Destroyer ~ Poet
Contest Name 5TH POEM ON THE SOUP..
POISON! 1st first.
I was coming up from Tamworth, riding on a tired horse.
Past Barraba we wandered north, on a slow and...
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Categories:
shags, adventure, cowboy-western, horse, river,
Form: Ballad
Them~
...Them~
He walks~
He balks~
He hawks~
He squawks~
He caulks~
He stalks~
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She nags~
She wags~
She gags~
She shags~
She rags~
She sags~
Them ~...
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Categories:
shags, life
Form: Free verse