I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
...Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I...
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Categories:
skulks, adventure, character, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Burden of Broken Ties
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Written: December 31, 2024, Contest: Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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Welcome into the world,
with grazing blue eyes and sap...
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Categories:
skulks, analogy, god,
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But Here
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Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical whispers of wind
are my wondrous wicket
restive ...
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Categories:
skulks, analogy, character, identity,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
skulks, fate,
Form: Senryu
The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities
...The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities
By David J Walker
I love walking
the rutted roads
Running in
hidden groves
Through
the residential jungles
the rambling
backyard bouleva...
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Categories:
skulks, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
A Need For Blood
...He loiters in shadows in line for no harp
The tools of his trade all surgically sharp
He slices their throats before they start yelling
The Lord knows his name but the Lord isn’t telling
So pro...
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Categories:
skulks, dark, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Serpent - a Pleiades
...Somewhere through Eden’s leas
skulks our forgotten foe.
Seraph of God, now a
slithering trickster who
swayed Eve to taste vile fruit.
Salvation fell away;
sin dwells in mankind’s heart.
4/21...
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Categories:
skulks, betrayal, bible, christian, god,
Form: Pleiades
Ghulam's Ghazals
...Ghulam crosses the Indian border
to conquer. Bodies vanish; souls
wander in the vicarious valleys.
Fanatics essay to frighten
the music maestro, shouting
outside the auditorium.
If they si...
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Categories:
skulks, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
What About Me
...My inverted shadow
skulks along
cannot be shaken
i feel him more than I see him
always there
telling me what he needs
what about me?...
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Categories:
skulks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Shadows Reborn Each Morn
...Shadows detach at dusk to sneak silently away
to roost together like bats in rookeries,
hanging upside down, wrapped in black mantles, gossiping.
Each shadow reborn each morn seeks out its host...
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Categories:
skulks, dark, life, light, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Ghulam's Ghazals
...Ghulam crosses the Indian border
to conquer. Bodies vanish; souls
wander in the vicarious valleys.
Fanatics essay to frighten
the music maestro, shouting
outside the auditorium.
If they si...
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Categories:
skulks, music,
Form: Free verse
O' That Aristotle Should Return To Proclaim
...O' That Aristotle Should Return To Proclaim
O' that Aristotle should return to proclaim
wise, worldly words written with furious winds.
Reveal more wisdom, garner even more fame
point to histor...
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Categories:
skulks, creation, deep, education, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Diary of a Soldier - World War 1
...Surrounded by mud
our feet make love to the surface
the bullets kiss us, the bayonets hug
our intestines and the blankets
cuddle with our cold, decaying corpses
we write to our wives, letters th...
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Categories:
skulks, dark, death, fear, sad,
Form: Free verse
Time To Dine
...renard slyly skulks
in the leafy undergrowth
success… dinnertime!
Renard - traditional french word for fox
27th May 2015...
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Categories:
skulks, animal,
Form: Haiku
Moonrabbit
...moon rabbits' moon dance
harvest moon skulks on black cloud
Only moondroppings...
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Categories:
skulks, moon,
Form: Haiku
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