HOT MILK DRIPPING
...Contest : Alice through the Wormhole
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
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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
Xmas 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
Dusseldorf
...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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