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...In the midst of a wet night,
Discovered myself upon a viaduct.
Straggled or vagrant, uncertain.
Not petrified by the dark, rumbling sky,
Amazed to find the place familiar.

I perceived the fain...
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Categories: straggled, beauty, dark, death, extended
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberChapter 46 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Twins the Ten

...Date:  September   2036

September finally came. Dolly 
Was in Labor but she stated 
That she would deliver her
Babies at home. Damian Tried 
Gentle discouragement. "Naw,
Babe we will be patie...
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Categories: straggled, 6th grade, birth, caregiving,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberChapter 33 -- Delilah Damian and Damian Junior Makes Three

...The ambulance ride only lasted
For 10 minutes.
Delilah was in Labor now
Experiencing strange labor
Sensations. They were orgasms
Dolly didn't want to admit that.
Most of both families swept int...
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Categories: straggled, beauty, birth, birthday, blessing,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberPastoral

...By the shore, with effortless strokes, he paddled.
On the bank, a pasture with holstein cattle -
Sitting there, up high on the wooden seat, he
        lazily dabbled.

Softly crept the coyote, p...
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Categories: straggled, animal, nature,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Premium MemberSuspicion Fell On the Butler

...*Image of Suspicion & Doubt by Pixabay.

Suspicion Fell on the Butler

'Twas a murky damp eve at the big house,
A frightening hallway clock tolls troll-less,
Hark the wayward butler...
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Categories: straggled, imagery, inspiration, love, passion,
Form: Quatrain



Afterlife In Anguished

...Morning meditation 
With mission and vision 
To understand nature 
And Nurtured my being,
Morning breeze blew
My mind to surmised 

Darkened, smudged, 
Blurred to the darkness realm,
Mercifu...
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Categories: straggled, cry, dark, fire,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Remembrance Day Poem

...Christ and the Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon (1916)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OEnXw7P60


The straggled soldier halted and clumsily went down  "O blessed crucifix, I'm beat !"
C...
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Categories: straggled, world war i, world
Form: Narrative

Sacre

...Stings of sharp coldness
and side aches were the last 
of her worries 

Her broken toes straggled uselessy 

Branch after twigs clawed aboust her

Sharp rocks and stickers no longer
made a d...
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Categories: straggled, abuse, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: I do not know?

Sumerian Recipes

...OUR MASGOUF

The fishes have high wings, but they can feel our deep pain like sisters. Yes, we are the fishes’  brothers and any halo you may see in the dark night is a birthday of this brotherhood...
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Categories: straggled, food,
Form: Prose Poetry

Squirrel In the Yard Ii

...the squirrel in the yard has seen me
give up my worms to the dirt
only to feed the birds, and in turn
hear the chirps of more nightingales
the sickening chirps of january, 
the monotonous wails ...
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Categories: straggled, childhood, dark, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTwo Hawaiians, a Sunset and a Memory

...Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing for the night’s performanc...
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Categories: straggled, blessing, happiness, memory, places,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberFebruary 12, 2017

...A murder of crows straggled 
across the grey February sky
with light snow slowly falling
blanketing the world in untracked 
silence, until we crossed coyote
tracks setting off Xena’s baying.
Ba...
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Categories: straggled, winter,
Form: Free verse

Companion

...Companion.
Comparable, compassionate compatibility.
Committal, compound or common availability.
Glorification panoistic or repudiation ability. 
Inattentive, inappreciable, impudent cruelity.
Re...
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Categories: straggled, caregiving
Form: Name

Premium MemberSnow Cutting 63

...I’ve
climbed the highest ladder
repaired frost damaged stone slab roof,
sat on top of telegraph poles
digging snow on Daughton heights
metamorphosis into maturity, was this proof?

I’ve
froze...
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Categories: straggled, work,
Form: Verse

Russet Red Vision At the Edge of the Green Creek

...Scabbard symbol enchanted flowers opal potion milky skin
Gold-embroidered  purple  robe , green eyes flashing stars.
Beautiful faintly beeswax smell in  village meadow chamber
Horse's necklace "cl...
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Categories: straggled, childhood, friendship, life, love,
Form: Verse

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