The Wrong Train
...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories:
snaking, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse
Ecstatic elevator
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Bonfire branches
swaying in summer
dress
At the riverside
playing with the wind
A long tress
Snaking curves
In the rippling river
A summer spree
Leaning lips
through the v...
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Categories:
snaking, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Checking Out the Tats
...Sitting by the river
There are lovely urban views,
But it’s more fun to people watch
And check out the tattoos.
A dragon snaking up an arm,
Some flowers on a calf,
An eagle near an elbow
And...
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Categories:
snaking, people,
Form: Rhyme
Staircase
...stairway
to heaven bound
has step-wise tiers
strewn with slippery slides
snaking down to land head first ~
rung hamstrung...
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Categories:
snaking, faith, heaven,
Form: Verse
The House of Lords
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Bored of deplored
Hordes of frauds
On abhorred company boards
Who applaud flawed
Seats stored…for cheats
Apply or buy on the fly
Enjoy till they die
Getting podgy..bet...
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Categories:
snaking, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Magical Journey
...*“Named after Pieter Both, who was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both is one of the most beautiful mountain peaks in Mauritius.” Mauritiusnow.com>blog>things-to-do>piete...
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Categories:
snaking, appreciation, journey, magic, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Boston Ivy
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POTD~
In the misery of a paler grey nightfall
she blinks like citrine glazed along walls,
Ivy of Boston flaunts her shimmer without guilt
as palette of amber claims her lustrous glides
slit...
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Categories:
snaking, passion, winter,
Form: Free verse
Snow
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Slip sliding from chilled breeze
Slivers of flurries waltz
Softly mantling old trees
Silver-coated by rain:
Snaking down down glossed yard
Soon...frost will enchant you
Smile! Crystals peck y...
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Categories:
snaking, image, snow,
Form: Pleiades
Water Imbibes All Truth Reveals
...What is this creature revealed,
when an object hits the surface field?
It emits a splash that springs up into the air,
like a fountain surging up skyward with flare,
to reveal everything you need...
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Categories:
snaking, water,
Form: Rhyme
Grounding
...Mist covered tall trees
Myna on a wire
Sunshine mugged by clouds
Smoke of factory
Road snaking uphill
Cold numb fingers
Chill wind on face
Dry thirsty throat
Eyes yearning more
Humming w...
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Categories:
snaking, nature,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
River Runs Wet And Dry
...It rained for three days
Constant outpouring awakens
The dry river to life again
A little farther besides our home
I hear the rumbling sound
Of water slowly snaking though
Descending, bulldozin...
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Categories:
snaking, courage, life, success,
Form: Free verse
sky scraper
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I was …
awake …
in the crow’s nest
but doing all I could to not nod off
we had been through storms that day and
all the previous night
(such was the North Bering)
so not a soul had slept
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Categories:
snaking, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Free verse
A Golden Kiss
...I Form - Imagism 9-18-24 6-20 lines
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A Golden Kiss
Summer bows out and leaves a golden kiss
Maize dozes in mellow aster afternoons
Orange glow...
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Categories:
snaking, autumn,
Form: Imagism
Takotsubo Cardio
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Takotsubo
My grief would overtake me.
There was nothing that could shake me.
I could not get out of bed. I had nothing but bedhead.
Hygiene was lacking, and I was constantly snaking.
I...
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Categories:
snaking, confusion, depression, imagination, love,
Form: Spoken Word
Delphic
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Inspiration, Title 1/ Delphic -
Quote: The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Categories:
snaking, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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