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Tallow Poems - Poems about Tallow

Tally-up

...the supported the new divsion
but pushed to allow
a clause
due to the fact that open weight had no weight restrictions
it seemed unprofessional to have an open curtain were the show was
opened t...
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Categories: tallow, character, encouraging, guitar, music,
Form: Ballad

Death in the New Year

...Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .

Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold an...
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Categories: tallow, death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy



To God Be the Glory

...This candle burns slowly —and with the severity of courage
We pick our way with utter caution down the bombarded stairway
One thing is certain: we must flee from this scoffing pillage.
Aided by fl...
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Categories: tallow, conflict, war,
Form: Rhyme

Ode to a Journalist

...You made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
            Man and beast...
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Categories: tallow, dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Fella Meatus

...Disturbed by the interruptions 
He would be disrupted by my
Skill
Thrill of collaboration 
When ones partners are
Determined and real
In that self satisfaction 
If achieving a goal
What's in ...
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Categories: tallow, analogy, beautiful, business, drink,
Form: Ballade



Between the Two

...The smell of incense was heavy
And guarded the dingy room well.
Time passed slowly like the stifling breath of Yuletide
They were hiding from — the two lovers of Venice —
A woman with dark, luxur...
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Categories: tallow, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

The Feast of Power

...Walls breathe insistent hunger,
red as the inside of a split pomegranate,
richer still where the tallow has melted,
slick as the fat from a burnt offering. 

Scarpia does not eat.
He savors—sou...
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Categories: tallow, anxiety, character, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse

Toll and tallow

...How dark the air that winter brings to bear
Its dampness crawls into my very soul
A sickly moon attempts some light to share
As through the mist a bell begins to toll

Against all odds, in satur...
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Categories: tallow, halloween, holiday,
Form: Sonnet

January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...
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Categories: tallow, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature

...Cadaverous climate controlled cave creature 

(Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated 
from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes
On 5 August 2018, 
a destructive and shallow earthquake
measuring Mw 6...
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Categories: tallow, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChildren's Jobs

...Deep in the earth’s bowels
We crawl through tight tunnels
Where it’s darker than night
But for glimmer of light
From small stub of tallow,
A feeble yellow glow.
Above our heads the rock
It oft...
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Categories: tallow, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme

Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.

A gangly, meas...
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Categories: tallow, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

Shane For Rap Music

...You can see Shane its a callow, 
Not for the Business of Tallow;
Some Brain to be lying fallow,
Nothing in Tallow yields Halo...

Better Shane challenged A Solo,
A lot of fans to him follow,
P...
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Categories: tallow, age, career, money, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Happy Birthday Matthew Scott Harris Parturition

...Yours truly an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
trademark disheveled characteristics
whipsawed ever faster around sun.

He (best buddy and alter ego of mine) 
snapped, popped, a...
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Categories: tallow, anniversary, birth, birthday, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTitanic

...Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a dead...
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Categories: tallow, adventure, beauty, boat, fear,
Form: Rhyme

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