as we metamorphose
...as we metamorphose
sponsor : Unseeking
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submitted : 11/6/25
two points of a straight line
birth and death that need to
lightly kiss, after plunging depths
dissolve ...
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Categories:
somersault, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories:
somersault, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Earth Angels
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visible
tangible
non-celestial
no halo hovers
above their heads
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Categories:
somersault, angel, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Somersault
...Once upon a midnight
At a fireplace in my old home,
I read onto a paper, my knees on wood.
It was a letter,
My good will's final tome.
Sobbing and shivering through my hood,
I had been wounding...
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Categories:
somersault, allegory, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Ten Gallon Hat
...I come from the borough of Queens, New York
My classmates call me a Klutz and a dork
Those names pervaded my soul, taking a toll
Being at the bottom of the totem pole.
Then Dad took me to the t...
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Categories:
somersault, environment, girlfriend, humor, pride,
Form: Lyric
Swing Empty, Swings in Breeze
...An empty swing sways, lilting loneliness in the breeze,
With no children in play, no laughter's squeal to please,
Its rusty chain creaks a forlorn squeak for days gone by.
Like lonesome clouds tha...
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Categories:
somersault, games, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Studio Dune
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Staircase shifts as my footsteps climb
Trapeze tree swing, springy arm chimpanzee
Undulates gripping limbs, gym sublime
Driftwood bone betides baton twirling frenzy ...
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Categories:
somersault, blue,
Form: Acrostic
Buzz Off
...I swung with a vengeance but missed that damned fly
The breeze I’d created caused him to pass by
My electric racquet in underarm mode
Still failed to make that bluebottle explode
It filled me w...
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Categories:
somersault, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
No One Is Looking
...Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo
Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund
Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain
Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay
Bubble floats to pop
Silence yet I sway
Miasma...
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Categories:
somersault, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet
Untitled
...You have eyes that fly me to the moon
Silver sonnets slip from licorice lips
Making maroon heart do somersault
Flips my DNA to create a new soul
In my womb as you swoon
I feel the formation ...
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Categories:
somersault, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse
A Mind's Room
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A Craig Cornish Contest: Empty Room
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A kaleidoscope of unknown thrill rushes
within my swollen veins, needle-pricked –
and the liquid opiate carries me high, upstream
like...
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Categories:
somersault, angst, places, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Craving otherworldly Respite
...Crystal eyes gleam
at the prospect of
scintillating sapphire blush
gliding films of
wonder dilate bliss
driven lilac haze
spasmodic orbital earth
spinning obtuse lumen
tangents of night mist
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Categories:
somersault, appreciation, beauty, birth, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Fitness Fight
...Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.
But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning male...
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Categories:
somersault, body, change, fantasy, health,
Form: Quatrain
Emmas Smile
...Emma’s Smile
He picked her up the other day
And from the window, peeking out of the blinds,
I watched them traipse down the driveway
Practically skipping, arms around each other,
Happiness b...
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Categories:
somersault, daughter, first love,
Form: Free verse
Millions of Bullions
...Three vaults to open, combinations memorised,
late dark night. all asleep. no one to be surprised,
plan is perfect, we are a team of seasoned three,
millions worth of bullions, rob, get away, be f...
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Categories:
somersault, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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