Bantu
...The doors of the crowded train open
The spillways of the dam are unlocked.
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March 24, 2023
Contest : Write Bantus
Sponsored by : Suzanne Delaney...
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Categories:
spillways, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Other
The Heart Walls of the D R Canal
...Every form of life has it's walls, nothing, no one stands alone
some are trees, brush, branch, twig and wood and bark
some are mortar and stone, mere workers flesh and bone
others lay in memori...
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Categories:
spillways, america,
Form: Quatrain
Awakening the Dream
...Awakening the Dream
by Odin Roark
Even in a dream
A poet’s page
Starts blank
Restlessly
The inscrutable pen hovers
Awareness preparing absorption
Like a dry valley of nature
Awaiting ...
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Categories:
spillways, dream,
Form: Free verse
Saving the United States
...Mississippi flows
both ways into our spillways
Thank you New Orleans...
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Categories:
spillways, natural disasters
Form: Haiku
The Night Host
...Looking around I have a feeling of fright
Knowing in the end there will be death in the night
Spillways drip
Garbage's tip
In the alleys of utter darkness
Shrewd and rude
Crusty and crude
Are ...
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Categories:
spillways, adventure, death, loss, death,
Form: Free verse