Pomegranate
...Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies
The ancient purport.
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Categories:
sumptuousness, desire, fruit, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
O Crane
...Heads veiled in immaculate white,
Like cloistered nuns tanning in sun light;
As the farmer starts plowing,
Flock around, twenty of you kowtowing;
Searching with your sharp eyes,
Finding and pec...
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Categories:
sumptuousness, bird, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
I Make My Bed
...Darkness slowly vanquishes day
Once a noon with rays of brilliance
now turns into a Stygian night
On my face are the wrinkles of time
On my flesh are tattoos of hardship
Eyes with the blurrin...
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Categories:
sumptuousness, 10th grade, death, old,
Form: I do not know?
Checkered Pursuits
...I wanted to be an engineer
and drive a train insane
always with my chug-chug-chugging
and that four-note whistle
I carried in my dungarees
Whoooo - whhoooowhoooooooo
I wanted to be a balloon...
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Categories:
sumptuousness, career, childhood,
Form: Rhyme