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Splintery Poems - Poems about Splintery

Premium Member How Much Vengeance Is Enough?
... How Much Vengeance Is Enough? By Mark D. Stucky How much bloody carnage and rubble is required to atone for sins of a few? How many eyes must be gouged to extract des......

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Categories: splintery, conflict, forgiveness, hate, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Farewell To Summer's Golden Glow
...Written: August 31, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Each day the evenings will shorten, My lawn never got vibrant in my garden. Life shifts slowl......

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Categories: splintery, analogy, appreciation, beauty, school,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Desert, Wilderness, Storm
...THE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM I am parched, my back is arched, my body racked with pain, Nothing green in sight, my thirst, my plight, eyes playing tricks on me again. An illusion......

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Categories: splintery, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Git Thee Behind Me Satan and All Your Demons--
...My passion is the happy fervor That covers and moves the lever I heard an exciting, silent flaming To warn me about this mine anxiety And its eyes have all the flaming On that day......

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Categories: splintery, analogy, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member A Question
...A dog wanders down the road sniffing snuffling head raised suddenly alert to protect why * * * A wall built ten feet high stone upon stone brick upon brick hides the ou......

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Categories: splintery, dark, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lioness Waits For Dinner
...The best I could hope for was a lame or weak animal, limping along, not able to catch up with their tribe. My cubs are hungry, and they like fresh blood meat. A young antelope or gazelle would be......

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Categories: splintery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Memo In Chord, Moon In Accord
...Penetrating the window the moonlight casts onto my desk wheyey cream of gleam Bypassing the door ajar extends afar my reminiscence in wee wisps of waft, Ferreting out your memo and dusting dog-......

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Categories: splintery, i miss you, imagery,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Christmas Eve
...CHRISTMAS EVE riding the wind a thousand christmas bells swirl city corners custom country steeples ring round my splintery old pew in a ponderous quiet on this hallowed eve i’m forgett......

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Categories: splintery, christmas,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Old Bridges
...Over streams or above deep ravines, they cling to the earth that supports them. Having borne years of burdens, their bones are cracking; the splintery skin of their once-strong arms now ......

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Categories: splintery, old,
Form: Verse
Encomium
...At that hour the breeze turns around. The fishermen are coming back with hands splintery, without lips, with eyes of stone. The bottom is empty like a bottle at midnight. The shore is......

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Categories: splintery, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two From the Sibyl - By David Austin
...POSEIDON Sleep, Lord Poseidon, Deep, everlasting sleep, While sailors watch with bated breath. Old planking creaks – The pitiable splintering sound – Old planking creaks. Old sailor, Splintery-kne......

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Categories: splintery, introspection, old, old,
Form: Free verse
First Page of My Untitled Story
...** Summary: A high school boy finds happiness and love in a small, dreary town. Just when it seems like life can't get any better, he discovers that his new love interest may not be telling him every......

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Categories: splintery, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Sibyl - Poseidon
...Sleep, Lord Poseidon, Deep, everlasting sleep While sailors watch with bated breath Old planking creaks - The pitiable, splintering sound - Old planking creaks Old sailor, Splintery-kneed ......

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Categories: splintery, fantasy, history, imagination
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebuilding the Shed In the Backyard - Again
...My son is out fixing up the shed. Winter is coming on. Needed doing he said. He had the time and the bound-to’s. I’m not used to this thought process, I’m not. Not from a child. I watch him for......

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Categories: splintery, family, life, love, son,
Form: Free verse
Keeping the Flame
...You’re watching video reruns from last summer. They’re lighting the cauldron, The Games return to the home of the gods. 2-minute snips between commercials: muscles grasping for a globe. And......

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Categories: splintery, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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