Engraved in stone
...She watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing.
Suddenly a thought entered her ...
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Categories:
stonemason, baby, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Quest for Fire continues
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EYE of READINESS
-SUCCESS
"We were welcomed by the eagle, who dropped us on our rears, when we finally achieved success, in his eyes. Dropped us a parting tear."
EYE of ROARING TIGER
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Categories:
stonemason, art,
Form: Ode
The Stonemason
...My lady's eyes are blind with smoke
And I must stand and watch her burn
I made her out of stone and oak
My lady's eyes are blind with smoke
And flames are catching on her cloak
I pray to God the...
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Categories:
stonemason, art, hope, love, mystery,
Form: Triolet
Specter of the Stonemason
...Jeb was a veteran of the War of all wars,
When brother fought brother and families closed doors.
Wounded in battle in the year of sixty-one;
Four years before Gettysburg, fore' it just begun.
J...
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Categories:
stonemason, dark, deep, irony, life,
Form: Rhyme