Ember of Intellectual Acuity
...A spark ignited when our paths first crossed,
Your knowledge kindled, my ignorance tossed.
From a timid flicker to a steady glow,
Our bond, like embers, began to grow.
Your wisdom blazed, a g...
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Categories:
smoulders, teacher, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Bonfires
...Some things in life you cannot fix,
so we burn blemished bridges.
Throw leftovers into bonfires,
watching silent embers blaze in
grandiose gold and orange flames.
Wait, as toxic smoke sm...
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Categories:
smoulders, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Fantastic Four
...
Victor Von Doom is looking for trouble,
he wants to turn the world into rubble.
He begins to unleash his evil wrath,
causing carnage to buildings in his path.
Inflamed with hate for the Fantast...
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Categories:
smoulders, appreciation, fantasy, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Lopped
...I thereby pledged to leave alone
endeavors bound for ills, my own
to worship at your fleshly throne
and bow before your pleasures
their ends, quite at your leisures
...
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Categories:
smoulders, betrayal, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Tat Tvam Asi- That Thou Art
...Buried deep within the five sheaths of form
Connected to ego through senses five
Inner polarity feels bliss throb warm
Essence of presence in the void does jive
Truth of our being, within and a...
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Categories:
smoulders, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
He Murdered My Reflection
...I promise — that ain't me
I'm not the guy in the mirror
The guy is so beardy
Cheeky faced
With a big thick lips
That isn't me
Remember when I smile
It's a crooked one
One side of my lip
Se...
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Categories:
smoulders, anger, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
That Twirl Balletic
...If i exist
I would write of tears
that pulled down walls
Of love in seconds glance
Of new born parents
with matching gloop stains
Of darkness that swims between
the blood and skin
Of strutted...
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Categories:
smoulders, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Polar Ice Cap
...What If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’
- this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The
sweet smoke of his sugarloaf effigy black as night,
surrounded by a material red tri...
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Categories:
smoulders, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Parched Plateau
...Sun
shines long
parched plateau
summer smoulders
June
May 22, 2019...
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Categories:
smoulders, imagery, june, summer,
Form: Lanterne
Towering Inferno
...There stands a blackened tower
Shrouded in a ghostly white
The tomb of seventy two
From a day that drags on hour by dreadful hour
As we reflect upon that ghastly night
A day so many live to rue...
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Categories:
smoulders, bereavement, death, fire, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Seasonal Change
...Seasonal Change
Autumn fades bring winter skies,
Gone the amber filtered clouds
The birds migrate, leave chill behind,
For warm up north a mate to find
Charcoal smoulders capt...
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Categories:
smoulders, autumn, color, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Drawn To the Graves
...Drawn to the graves
Unbeknown clarity develops like root canal treatment
festering wounds and scull bones loom on the route
In reason and feeling I have no choice but to venture
an ancient dr...
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Categories:
smoulders, depression,
Form: Free verse
She's My Unadulterated
...Her hair, her beautiful blonde curls,
Her hair drapes to her butterfly shoulders.
And I stand beside her, a quiver,
As my love, my lion hearted love, smoulders.
Her lines, her wine glass curv...
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Categories:
smoulders, lust, sexy,
Form: Quatrain
Down the Years
...Down The Years
O, my blanket smoulders,
too warm for you and I,
Drape, my dear, your shoulders
and not upon your eye.
Lay between the faces
of every empty smile,
To wal...
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Categories:
smoulders, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Inglenook
...Inglenook
She, the face in the embers,
The remnants of a raging fire,
Smoulders like a cigarette
Between lips of lustful desire.
Where men stoke in gay abandon,
Pokers hot as blacksmith...
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Categories:
smoulders, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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