The River Knows
...River is deep
River is wide
River flows snakelike
River has the immense wavelet
You can't cross
to meet me
who abandoned you
Don't dip your feet in the river
River becomes a waterfall
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Categories:
snakelike, love,
Form: Free verse
Risque Triplets
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Clover superlative lovers, sprung via same stem
Umbrella immunity protects sprites supple
Filter purity lacy leaf shade kindly dapples them
Desiree samples pitc...
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Categories:
snakelike, allusion, animal, april, art,
Form: Rhyme
Nothingness
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“Nothingness”
Words
lines drawn
unending
dusk
to
dawn
characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind
where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows
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Categories:
snakelike, muse,
Form: Free verse
Stillness
...She glides out of the room on tiptoe,
As graceful as a sinuous ballet,
Sliding past sad memories that flow,
Staring, scowling eyes upon her still prey.
As graceful as a sinuous ballet,
Stealth...
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Categories:
snakelike, abuse, analogy, anger, betrayal,
Form: Pantoum
Lone
...Snakelike writhing twisting clenching soul pain.
Shooting needles crystal shards sharp and fine
Blame shame there is no gain along this vein
Mundane challenge gives no freedom to chime.
Music slo...
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Categories:
snakelike, angst, death, feelings, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
I That Troddeth Through Flames of Hades To Burn
...I That Troddeth Through Flames Of Hades To Burn
I that troddeth through flames of Hades to burn
Sheddeth my blacken, snakelike and scaly skin
As glowing embers scorch me, this I did learn
Man h...
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Categories:
snakelike, art, dark, evil, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
...Singer Sir Mick Jagger
Walks with a swagger
Wriggling snakelike hips
Pouts with big rubbery lips
Texan model Jerry Hall
Is very skinny and tall
Their Bali wedding wasn’t valid
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Categories:
snakelike, celebrity, humorous, music,
Form: Clerihew
Power of the She Vixen That Oft Souls Destroys
...Power Of The She Vixen That Oft Souls Destroys
Silk sheets graced her sweet, welcoming night bed
promised relief from pain, sorrow and dread.
With such treasure offered truth becomes blind
dark...
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Categories:
snakelike, betrayal, conflict, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
When Scorpio Goes Dark
...Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote
blue sphere, purling,
spinning helplessly
through...
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Categories:
snakelike, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
Visit To Antietam
...Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes g...
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Categories:
snakelike, america, conflict, history, together,
Form: Ode
Tittering Totter
...tittering totter is not a high heeled smoke alarm nor a ship
Valve number eighteen is open said the rasping snakelike male. Slithering. Pipe like gatherings of serpentalias sweeping. Above and bel...
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Categories:
snakelike, allusion, aubade, baptism, bible,
Form: I do not know?
The Praise Dancers
...The Praise Dancers…
In stilled silent
space
between garnished tables,
the word exploded:
gyrating motion
spilled out
here and there;
yet
bare clapping hands
and naked feet
made
no so...
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Categories:
snakelike, analogy, celebration, dance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Letters: Reduction-Finale For Circling Moments
...Gazing,
Greek letters display of curious origin.
Impregnation skin softly writhing aware letters
Sea
Alpha, Omicron, Tau, Psi, Mu, Rho, pass through all the rest and each other figure 8
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Categories:
snakelike, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
For She, This Victory Was Gained- Sonnet Number 2
...For She, This Victory Was Gained- Sonnet number 2
You that loved her for her long, yellow hair,
I for her grace, charm and brilliant mind.
You left her sick and without a damn care,
while ...
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Categories:
snakelike, age, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
Honeymoon On the Flying Scotsman
...With a snakelike hiss, the train doors close
the engine rocks and rumbles on clicking
over welded metal couplings: iced, glazed, froze,
the steam heat in clouds arose, rail licking.
On velvet we ...
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Categories:
snakelike, travel, vacation,
Form: Terza Rima
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