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Game and Watch
... A silver clamshell or a golden hue, The Game & Watch, a wonder fresh and new. With simple screens of liquid crystal grey, It stole our moments, brightening the day. A single game, a chal......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
starkness,
nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Moon sculpture
...Soon, I will journey to the middle of the moon, There, I will proudly place a memento with flair, Fine sculpture shaped for reduced-gravity design, One like proud Lady Liberty, facing the sun. Li......
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Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Categories:
starkness,
art, imagination, moon, space,
Form:
Ekphrasis
I am now a butterfly
...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath......
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Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Categories:
starkness,
cheer up, extended metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
Money
...A long verse on an even longer subject The eye of most everything is money Their power over us is unsurpassed Hey, got the dough? May call me “honey” To get away, to buy me things, to have a bl......
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Ed Kay
Categories:
starkness,
money,
Form:
Rhyme
In the eye of the storm
...Clouds rolled overhead as the wind whipped up molasses The sweet heady scent of the Incoming storm I call for you now, to come in and shelter A call left unheard in this wild open space Clouds......
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Leigh Haynes
Categories:
starkness,
environment, love, seasons, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Embodying the Light
...Light is a linear beam of photons particles streaming from there to here emanating from an emitter's ions inflamed by energy's cheer. A golden glow at dawn imbibes the world with enlightened g......
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John Anderson
Categories:
starkness,
light,
Form:
Rhyme
My soul in tensed darkness
...As my soul floats in tensed darkness, My heart beats in lifeless starkness, A faint hope pierces my despair, As my knees glued firm to prayer. I soared with sour taste of my sor......
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Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Categories:
starkness,
dark, fear, poverty, prayer,
Form:
Kyrielle
I was fooled
...The curvature with the bumps seen well carved, My innate restraints were blatantly starved. Her faint silhouette, my lust suddenly craved, With the entrance to her paradise paved. She swayed li......
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Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Categories:
starkness,
beautiful, cry, emotions, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Bird of Paradise
...Imagination only dreamt In dark the starkness hid its flight Until the tropic Phoenix went Arrayed from daytime into night......
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Craig Cornish
Categories:
starkness,
imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
Edge of Sanity
...She skates along the edge of sanity. The line between disaster and divine. Heart now tasting the inhumanity, without the lonely sip of the sweet wine. Digging whilst drowning the depths of ......
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Wendy Stein
Categories:
starkness,
flower, god, growth, health,
Form:
Sonnet
Final Thoughts
...My mind begins to wander As I near my final breath I lie here and I ponder All the mysteries of death Will I fade into the darkness Of a cold and moonless night Or will I view......
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Randy Freie
Categories:
starkness,
death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Fierce Andaree
...The silent moon veiled in seamless web darkness. Bejeweled in radiance starkness, Youthful valiant Prince Harkness. Lost in hush briefness. Charming, brave. Fierce. His, a fave. Diligence, bri......
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Eve Roper
Categories:
starkness,
imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Blood Bath
...Finally my blood began to coagulate a graceful gel, gently thickened, so – whatever I might feel, the settling of the wound, has begun… in sensitive silences, the shadows echo the fear, felt b......
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
starkness,
blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Free verse
Phi Poetry of Reality In Dream
... "I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams, and the way of the crossings-through the ills and through the barriered things." A fleeting spark that perceives, I, have s......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
starkness,
art,
Form:
Rhyme
The Starkness of Love
... Dulcimer dewdrops paint the leafy canvas, hungry mouthlings bobbing a rambunctious sway from clear pleasure of impact to receive blessings of the day, the celestials......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
starkness,
6th grade, art,
Form:
Free verse
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