Age
...They left you impassioned impossibilities,
They say.
Forged runner out of a glass fire,
How fast does glass run?
How far does glass run?
Penniless fiend with a knack for whatever
The hell, what...
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Categories:
shiner, anxiety, boy, childhood, identity,
Form: Free verse
Sky Show Productions
...The Gallery of Celestial Images
A Planetary Parade
never seen before
Perhaps to never be seen again
embrace your lover
cuddle up
treasure the moment......
Syntrichia caninervis
might you s...
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Categories:
shiner, analogy,
Form: Alliteration
CONFESSION FROM A POET TO A BELOVED POETESS ROMANTIC WORDS
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beloved poetess at your feet,
being a simple poet
a major shoe shiner
certainly the best, I am !
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Categories:
shiner, allusion, confidence, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Polaris
...Polaris, Star of Ursa Minor
among her suns, you are chief shiner.
Commonly known as Pole or North Star
you guide navigators from afar.
Can you also lead and guide me
as She who led the Magi Th...
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Categories:
shiner, analogy, christian, jesus, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Saigon Story
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We lived in Saigon many, many moons ago
Of which I have a tale to share
About a pair of my husband boots
His favourites…. the ones he loved to wear
A shoe shiner came to the work office
A t...
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Categories:
shiner, feelings, hope, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
All Twelve Apostles: A Tyburn
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PETER or SIMON the YOUNGER
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slower
lower
grower
thrower
Christ calls~"Have faith,"~slower~lower~rock
Build church~confuse~grower~thrower~flock
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Categories:
shiner, allusion, analogy, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Tyburn
Resplendence
..."Everywhere I look I find natures resplendence,
sunsets bless, suitors and suitresses take a chance"
~quote by poet
R
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Categories:
shiner, beauty, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Butterfly
...What is a butterfly?
A tiny creature with pretty wings
Colorful and filled with joy
A symbol of freedom and liberation
Beauty, grace and rebirth
But there should be something more
There should ...
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Categories:
shiner, bird, butterfly, flying, for
Form: Free verse
Me Old Mate
...Hey up me old mucker,
how`s tha doing me old mate,
where did tha get that big shiner?
has tha bin in a fate.
av cum round to see thee,
for thee to give me a hand,
cos av just had delivered,
...
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Categories:
shiner, friend, friendship, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
A Man of the Land
...Born poor in a working class family,
Lula da Silva moved to Sao Paula
in search of better life and his father.
Challenged by life, he was supported by his mother.
He had little or no formal edu...
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Categories:
shiner, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Lula, Loved and Hated
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I cannot tell you why Lula is loved and hated without some history ...
His name is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, or simply Lula. He was born in
1945, the seventh...
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Categories:
shiner, celebrity, political,
Form: Verse
Finer Flower Designer
...when a flower designer
nothing ever is finer
eye has a shiner...
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Categories:
shiner, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Regina Fears Angina
...I have a Christian Friend, Regina
She had never uttered '':
Not for all the tea in Big China,
As though it could give her Angina;
For life ban her from Holy Sinai...
Fears picked from Born - ...
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Categories:
shiner, allusion, anxiety, devotion, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Work In Progress 12
...Though the destination when we left Illinois was supposed to be Waco Texas we ended up in Bowlingreen, Kentucky.We were in a trailer park
behind the lost river truck stop where my mom
cooked. I enr...
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Categories:
shiner, freedom, perspective,
Form: Free verse
You
...There is night, there is the neon light
No glittering there is in my life
There are falling rains
There are fluctuating veins
No life there is without solitude lane
Your presence is like a ...
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Categories:
shiner, life, love,
Form: Free verse
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