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HOT MILK DRIPPING

...Contest : Alice through the Wormhole 
Sponsor : Tom Woody
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warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand 
wonder exquisite 
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Categories: sleekly, allegory, birth, change, character,
Form: Other

Tea Tales

...Come and climb these
Broad bony branches and 
Have tea on this tree 
with me,
Let's talk our hearts out
Into the poems unsung. 

Sleep silently singing in my sizzly eyes,
Sleep might snap...
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Categories: sleekly, art, beauty, happy, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberXmas Tide

...Xmas tide, 
a time for familial gatherings,
The golden chain of friendship 
…and companions
Sweet on each other,
parading arm in arm
Together to share a feast and gift giving

...Nativity sce...
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Categories: sleekly, character, christmas, lonely, longing,
Form: Haibun

The Gulls Maw

...A raw red crater of hunger;
the clacking tongue a buckram spear
shaken at all comers.

The gulls mouth is the gull,
the gullet is the gull
the torso, the snowy pale blue plumage,
that dark und...
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Categories: sleekly, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Minesweepers

...You may talk of submarines 
And of other war machines
As you sip your beer and talk of yesteryear.

You may even look with awe
At the ships that roll and yaw,
And the carriers as steady as a ro...
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Categories: sleekly, boat, devotion, history,
Form: Rhyme



A Varnished House

...The lake is surrounded 
by burnt-orange grass that bends.
The sparse light rain drops

make perfect circles 
on the glassy dark water.
They widen until 

they sleekly, slyly 
disappear. The ...
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Categories: sleekly, allusion, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Rain Drops

...The lake is surrounded by burnt orange grass that bends.The sparse light rain drops
make perfect circles on the glassy dark water 

that widen until they sleekly disappear. 
The lake mirrors the ...
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Categories: sleekly, allusion, appreciation, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Untold

...Incalculable sheets of thoughts hidden
Boiling brain,mimicking sharp gnawing pain
Pretty soul lay there quite sick, bed ridden
Entrapped by deep surges of bloody bane
Her stamina, sle...
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Categories: sleekly, dark, death, loss, pain,
Form: Dizain

The Silkworm's Birthday

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"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a qu...
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Categories: sleekly, chicago, grandchild, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse

Heartstrings Strum

...Gently strum  my heartstrings, 
So  I  can  produce  the  melody. 

The  kind  that  softens  the  heart, 
The  melody that  awakens  the  soul, 
That  which  sets  us  on fire, 
A  tingly  fir...
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Categories: sleekly, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse

Lilith Waits

...Lilith Waits   



Lilith waits as she surveys, all her brutal yesterdays

She cruelly paved with stepping-stones of broken hearts and human bones.

Her lips turned up at their red corners, s...
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Categories: sleekly, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberDusseldorf

...In an unreal pre-dawn half-light
I gazed with much surprise
Across the darkly flowing Rhine
With newly-wakened eyes.
The vista on the river bank 
Was as within a dream.
A vision wonderful, surr...
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Categories: sleekly, hope, recovery from, war,
Form: Rhyme

Reaney's Lamborghini

...So slick and sexy.  Purred past Temple Bar.
That throaty engine advertising punch.
All legal London, strolling out for lunch,
with turning heads declared, “Now that’s a car!”

So many barristers...
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Categories: sleekly, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

Fee-On-Her Joy

...Fee-On-Her Joy

The peril of the real epitome of African goddess,
Her gift packed neatness pouted love in her,
That has been brewed from Luo love pot,
Her lips lithe in the coat o...
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Categories: sleekly, appreciation, beautiful, bereavement, nature,
Form: Ode

Short Snort of Scotch

...Short Snort of Scotch

We will be going on trip week from tomorrow
And a bright idea I recently tried to borrow
Must be careful making sure I don't botch
By forgetting to bring along a bottle of...
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Categories: sleekly, encouraging, funny, humorous,
Form: Couplet

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