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A Vanilla Dove

...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous 
...

Categories: spined, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse

Curious Contraption

...the demo expert desperado left the device behind
What a marvelously designed contraption; wasn’t that kind?
He’s a desperado, an outlaw, he has a despicable mind.
Disassemble that apparatus, the t...

Categories: spined, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Sokushinbutsu

...the sun is on its knees,
disease leaks out their eyes; alive, 
it fans the drain’s release;
a holy light complies; it dries and-
burned and held and spined.
their molting hair entwined; divine a...

Categories: spined, analogy, autumn, birth, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pastoral Pastiche

...buttercup daisy 
   &
 cowslip

swaying pelts 
   of grasses 
bask in Spring 

purple vetch
      ribwort plaintain
lush clover
       in English rain
scalious burnets 
                 ...

Categories: spined, nature, places,
Form: Pastoral

Pipe Dreams

...Pipe Dreams

Though I have a woman’s heart; it pounds with
dragon’s fire. Curled about the core of self, 
I have lain in wait for Asia with claw, and horn.

Linked-locks and keys have spined be...

Categories: spined, analogy, symbolism, travel,
Form: Free verse

Spined

...Lies of a different kind sings the story of the far from the truth, you are bitten by the lying spider with venom that sooths, your tears are wiped away - Closed by cocoon to the blind in your eyes, ...

Categories: spined, emotions,
Form: ABC

The Backside of the Cross, Single Parenting

...Diplomacy's reveal, the hardship of conceive,
the woman bears the fruit to birth
the man does oft deceive!

And if the altar's reached
some freedoms are impeached
although the words "I promise"...

Categories: spined, people,
Form: Monorhyme

The Widows Peek (In Memory of Dora Rosen)

...Strands of silver, tinsel fine,
Thin, flyaway,
Winged, widow’s peak
Widows’ weep
Bubba, Grandma, alone.

Up the dark tenement stairs
Cross tiny, tile squared floors
To the always open door…
...

Categories: spined, family
Form: Free verse

$urface

...A look far $urface Iland place
I stay where mostly gone both 
Shells a part across swimed
Around Natureness Dawn grewed
Some seven Seas of Flowers and dirt
Whence soil fresh sent after Industrie...

Categories: spined, happiness, history, imagination, introspection,
Form: ABC