Ways of Providence
...My mind shudders at the memory of a dark day in my life when our son, a late boon into our arid life- (the one born to us after twelve years of long waiting,) was admitted in the ICU, almost lifeless...
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Categories:
smouldered, angst, fear, god, inspirational
Form: Haibun
Yet I Cling Long Version
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories:
smouldered, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Mirror of Hearts
..."One day, . . . I saw the sunset forty-four times! . . . You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad."
Quote from The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Categories:
smouldered, hope, metaphor, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse
Yet I Cling
...“NA”
Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep r...
...
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Categories:
smouldered, beautiful, dark, deep, devotion,
Form: Nonet
Yet I Cling
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
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Categories:
smouldered, anxiety, care, character, courage,
Form: Nonet
Softened Heart
...I walked through a fire
It scorched and it licked
But my heart remains soft now
All the charcoal bits flicked
What remains is just sadness
At the thought of all loss
Though the flames served ...
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Categories:
smouldered, anxiety, best friend, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Delineation of Beauty
...DELINEATION OF BEAUTY
Mary, you might not be the mother of Jesus
but you murder other beauty cos you're gorgeous.
Just like Annabella, your hair resonates
with the book character & beautifies ...
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Categories:
smouldered, 1st grade, beauty, for
Form: Rhyme
Vantage Point
...Serenading you with my sincerity
assembling praises in your name
your one glance falls in place
a thousand emotions it resurrects.
Dawn is the new dusk
you pretend and wave it off
but the be...
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Categories:
smouldered, analogy, beauty, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Fallacy
...and then there was nothing …
a distant echo of vacant abnegation
of purpose meaning delusion
yet a sense of unease flooded
nonchalant meditation
a void with no abyss
refused to...
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Categories:
smouldered, courage,
Form: Free verse
Another Day In Paradise
...Towns lay in ashes as soldiers marched to the sound of defeat
Clowns mocked surrender and wiped mascara off sooty cheeks
Frowns disguised shrapnel of eyeshadows in languishing tears
Gowns sh...
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Categories:
smouldered, endurance,
Form: Lento
Your Absinthe Eyes
...(Up-Tempo Shuffle)
VERSE A
Each war of personalities
Within your crowded soul
Reaps a gasp of mystery
Anticipated - anticipated ...
But just a flash of golden-green
One sweetened l...
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Categories:
smouldered, beauty, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Lyric
Astoneyhenge
...a carvery the sadistical it plough the salt on pewter it swords poles, rods,
it makes that satic it means a Conan, it twilight it scourges, it raid the emcamp it ask not
a baby humanity it ask not...
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Categories:
smouldered, allah, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Alliteration
Slow Death Dissolution
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When the repellant acid rain came,
the silica image gloomed darkly
into sobbing disintegration
Embers of flickering hope
smouldered deep in the heart of despair
Passion dying to be ...
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Categories:
smouldered, allusion, death, sad love,
Form: Elegy
Why Did We Anyway
...Why did we anyway?
Never thought id write a poem for you
Walking from the guest house in the pouring rain
Just to get to share a drink
You wouldn’t have walked if you hadn’t wanted to
You coul...
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Categories:
smouldered, grief, lost love, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Odyssey From Africa 12d, 13a
...Chapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.)
As they held their breath and waited
For a flame to catch the fire flowers
Finally a smoky ribbon
Drifted upwards from the petals
Gradually the flowers ...
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Categories:
smouldered, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
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