In the Lord Line Building
...There's a feeling of sadness
Mixed with a wistful awe
As we pick our careful way
Across a rubble strewn floor.
An eerie sort of half light,
As though hiding from the day,
Hiding our history unt...
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Categories:
sidewinders, change, fishing, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Through Blinders
...The truth can’t be seen through blinders.
Eyes and ears covered with hatred.
The tongue’s ready-lash sidewinders,
twisting and spinning what’s sacred.
The truth, the fact, reality
masked - the...
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Categories:
sidewinders, truth,
Form: Quatrain
The Castle On White Otter Lake
...The Castle On White Otter Lake
That rustic, old log castle
Stands facing the lake.
Built by hand, by one man
To acknowledge his presence,
In a changing world, he felt
He could not part...
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Categories:
sidewinders, endurance, nature, tribute,
Form: Verse
Mirage of My Saving Grace
...The black-as-widow’s-weeds night of endless stars
was so cold...
cruel as temperature
plunged its frigid fingers feeling through my being
fondling my heart and soul without mercy
molesting me ...
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Categories:
sidewinders, dark, depression, destiny, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Hot Haiku
...slithering sizzle
stalks scorching Sahara sands
sidewinders dancing
John G. Lawless
5/24/2016...
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Categories:
sidewinders, nature,
Form: Haiku
Solarium Sidewinders
...SOLARIUM SIDEWINDERS
introverted
hermit crabs
share cavities
appeased in their
shielded double
sanctuaries
solariums of solitude
misplaced platitudes
humoring normalcy
with cr...
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Categories:
sidewinders, irony, senses,
Form: Free verse
Tumbleweed Billy and One Eyed Sam
...Tumbleweed Billy And One Eyed Sam
Banked off jagged hills, pushed on by memory
Cause and effect took turns churning the sidewinders
Tumbleweed Billy and One Eyed Sam (The patron Saint of snake e...
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Categories:
sidewinders, adventure, business, games, magic,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
...That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not ...
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Categories:
sidewinders, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Opportunity
...Blue Moon tonight which is very rare
It happens on New Years Eve once in nineteen years
Will you be watching to see if it peeks through
In New York City, Albany, or Calimazu
Maybe in Ormand Bea...
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Categories:
sidewinders, education, imagination, nature, sciencenight,
Form: I do not know?
Christians
...I'm Melvin, C.E.O. of T.W.I.S.T.,,,which stands for "The Way I See This"...
Here's some facts if you care to listen,
they're about people called Bedside Christians.
Do they love the Lord?, sure t...
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Categories:
sidewinders, peoplegod, heaven, god, heaven,
Form: Personification