My Man, His it
...A mother to you, a son to me, sucking the life out of my bosom and weep in disgust when it's saggy.
Men love a tempting hole to fit in,
to dissolve seeds of bliss and then chymic wring
it barren o...
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Categories:
smelts, abuse, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Spring Is Here
...When the snow melts all about, spring is here,
and when the daffodils sprout, spring is here.
When songbirds start appearing on the scene,
it leaves little room for doubt, spring is here...
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Categories:
smelts, beautiful, change, flower, image,
Form: Ghazal
In The Spring
...Snowdrops tend to sprout early in the Spring,
while Tulips pop up later in the Spring.
And deciduous trees don beards of green,
when trillions of buds unfurl in the Spring.
Sweet sap ...
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Categories:
smelts, beauty, flower, image, imagery,
Form: Ghazal
Dave
...Dave
Everyone needs a Dave.
He checks how you are..
He's the one who sees beauty
Through your feathers and tar
As a friend he is priceless.
As much gold as Fort Knox..
He can see your po...
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Categories:
smelts, family, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Nirvana
...I took my shoes off and entered
into the room of darkness
of which the shiny black satin
slipped from her shoulder
exposing the tender flesh
hungered with living passion
burning like hot red ir...
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Categories:
smelts, allegory, happiness, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Iron
...Sunday did not pan out,
an iron faith faltered;
events planned
wandered off like drunken sheep.
It was the Advil,
it was the insomnia,
it was not enough iron in my soul.
Speaking of which, m...
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Categories:
smelts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fire, Lightning and Love
...Fire, Lightning and Love
Man of fire and lightning
What he touches, burns, sulfur
Righteous hard words twisted from his mouth
He smelts chains of steel to shackle and bind my soul
It is his d...
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Categories:
smelts, love,
Form: Blank verse
Dad In Flannel
...dad in flannel shirt
right hand holding pail of smelts
lit smoke in other
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on July 3, 2018...
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Categories:
smelts, clothes, father, fish, nostalgia,
Form: Senryu
Signs Of Spring
...Drip by drip, snowmen melt away
as the sun shines longer each day.
And the scent of Spring trails each breeze
as life awakes from Winter's freeze.
Color returns to barren trees
as buds...
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Categories:
smelts, beautiful, earth, imagery, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
The Upas-Tree By Alexander Pushkin
...In desert that is poor and dull
On soil that is scorched with fire
The Upas-tree stands as a hull
as guard who's one who knows no tire.
The prairie's nature had a thirst
begetting Him in day o...
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Categories:
smelts, allegory, death, metaphor, pain,
Form: Lyric
Njc Apricoot Wraughtspill
...Nichtian glossery, aprioric roots
aposteriorious tongues-
Joyce smelts hisewn twoowts!
Cutanddry grammarand goahead plot,
wideawake language; jester's gestures our knot....
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Categories:
smelts, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Twits Wits and Little Fits
...Love bluff
pink lovely stuff
never burns
though it melts
and when it does flesh like metal smelts
fools toys little
things of no great value
sweet to touch and taste so hallow
no finger tips n...
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Categories:
smelts, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme