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Premium Member The Market Rasen Witch - Lincolnshire Folklore
...upon the Rase a troublesome crone who meddled in the Rasen folk for she a witch! a witch! their slant and well she laid upon a cow a cursied blight a cursied spell and lo would not this neigh......

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Categories: skulked, dark, fun, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member good ideas only come at night
...I tore the page from its binder and ripped it to pieces, not wanting to be associated with the scribbles I had left on the sheet. To call that abomination 'art' would be an insult to the craft, and......

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Categories: skulked, inspiration, muse, myth, mythology,
Form: Haibun



September 17, 1862
...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead) the day September seventeenth in eighteen sixty-two found stalks of corn in Maryland ......

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Categories: skulked, america, history,
Form: Free verse
from russia with love
...Russia, my lovely Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956 as the youngest of the crew of mostly middle-aged men it is safe to assume I'm th......

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Categories: skulked, absence, anti bullying, birth,
Form: Blank verse
Hatred
... You skulked down the hidden backstreets of rationality, peering through the keyholes of human decency, and crawled in through the sewers of thought, to whisper your name to the unsuspecting i......

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Categories: skulked, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Luanda 1974
...Luanda 1975 It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters) was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed to rape, murder and pillage. The Portuguese army had dastardly......

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Categories: skulked, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Brace For Impact
...*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG. Brace For Impact Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person, one to be reckoned by indeed. One who's untouched by palls, frails near a radia......

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Categories: skulked, character, fate, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Long Shadow
...Old sins have a long shadow The old gnarled woman spat You will see punishment In a year and a day as a matter of fact Into the gloomy night with a full moon I skulked away with much to think......

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Categories: skulked, death,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Incisors
...The portcullis skulked up and down, with incisors twice. Welcomed in victory; treachery was his victor. He’d sink low. Rose petals bow under carriage wheels of friend, now foe. To kiss the crown, ......

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Categories: skulked, betrayal,
Form: Verse
The Laundromat
...In another lifetime, I was there As sudsy clothes, a’jumble, Went round and round until removed In damp and twisted tumble. Into the dryers they would go While I just sat there, reading, To h......

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Categories: skulked, clothes, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Purple Pixie
...Once upon a time, Prunella dwelt amid a magic wood a dainty pixie most rare whose temperament wasn't good Last one of her purple line in that dreary, dreaded glen where beasts ever feared to ......

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Categories: skulked, fairy, fantasy, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Blues For Rafaa
...We worked together in the airless cubicle gulag on the surface of the moon during the last ice age Diligently scurrying under the bright artificial lights composing odes to poverty with grea......

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Categories: skulked, death, death of a
Form: Elegy
A Hint of Fall
...At last, the breeze is cool enough To garner some respect, Though it's not here for very long, The forecasters suspect. Another heat wave's on its way 'Cause from what I recall, This very of......

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Categories: skulked, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Biggest Regret
...He was only a sheepdog But his death has bitten Into my soul ever since. As a pup we brought Him from his home In Ireland Where supernumeraries Are drowned No small farm needing More t......

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Categories: skulked, death, pain,
Form: Free verse
Giving In
...A little chill has crept inside Since summer's skulked away. At first a sweatshirt does the trick To keep the cold at bay. But finally I must give in, Admitting my defeat, For up go the elect......

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Categories: skulked, change,
Form: Rhyme

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