Arm Wrestling With Fate
...My guru carries a set of brass knuckles
you'd think he'd be all yes sir and no sir
but instead I get ahah hoho and egad
I can't do anything right on my best day
and I have the branding iron scars...
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Categories:
tailings, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Remnants of Our Children
...Lying on the skin of the earth
are children at play,
With one ear down, they listen
to the heartbeat of the earth.
Their eyes reflect a picture of the earth and sky.
Sunbeams flow from out t...
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Categories:
tailings, children, devotion, fate, giving,
Form: Free verse
Buddgelin Bey - Translation of Rex Marshall's Buddgelin Bey By T Wignesan
...Buddgelin Bey – Translation of Rex Marshall’s « Buddgelin Bey » by T. Wignesan
(Rex Marshall, b. July 16, 1943 at Grafton, belongs to the aboriginal tribe, Thungutti/Gumbaingeri of the Baryulgi...
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Categories:
tailings, humorous, mother, nature, rights,
Form: Free verse
Stone Sculpture
...The sculptor selects
a mallet and a chisel,
repositions the
rock, creates the tailings to
pave the statue’s patron path....
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Categories:
tailings, art,
Form: Tanka
Ghosts of Buzzard's Breath
...© 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Quiet mounds of yellowed tailings and dead weeds whisper low.
And proud rusting relics telling tales of striking gold.
The rush from East, from North and South, by wagon, tra...
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Categories:
tailings, funny, history, humorous,
Form: Ballade
Path of Pride
...Path of Pride
Life is filled with daily choices,
some are easy, others not.
Discernment used between the voices
convict emotional endings sought.
Feelings fueled by poisoned passion,
trait...
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Categories:
tailings, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Heartcrusher
...Pebbles those thick drops of hard rain; earth hail skittering
At the front of your mind growing, sloshing marbled and felt in your teeth
Scratching ache and unbalanced weight rolling forward to es...
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Categories:
tailings, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Come To Me As a Poem
...Come To Me As A Poem
The days of thunder in the cane fields
gone...
lightning strikes on the flat, brown flesh of
earth rushing through the green breaks
and out,
leaving the earth chatter...
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Categories:
tailings, absence
Form: ABC
The Little Portuguese Princess
...A Portuguese princess there on the stairs
Knee high and smiling of wish filled cares
A grin of a sprite and a handful of pickings
A thought to feelings and a feel to thinkings
Till pointed announceme...
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Categories:
tailings, love, romance, love,
Form: Rhyme