The Grind
...The Grind
In Gielinor's realm, where legends reside,
A hero emerges, with nowhere to hide.
From Lumbridge to Kharazi, a journey untold,
With pickaxe and sword, a story unfolds.
The grind is ...
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Categories:
tankard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus
Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f...
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Categories:
tankard, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
A Qualm
...A qualm
Settled upon me
Instant unease
I felt it
Course through
My body
Senses
Instantly
I grab my sword
Scurry
A page of words
Trying to keep up
Make sense of it all
A picture
Emerged...
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Categories:
tankard, courage, crush, day,
Form: Free verse
Security Misfit
...For a security slot, A Sluggard,
For a praised company, rather haggard:
From long unemployment a drunkard,
Full tankard draining after full tankard.
Also, a listener at nights to Bard
And coul...
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Categories:
tankard, absence, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden Shapes
...Hidden Shapes
David J Walker
Hidden shapes assured of shadows
Haunting
lingering
From a shared past
A scant vision
of tomorrow
A bitter tankard of
borrowed sorrow
Where do I...
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Categories:
tankard, allegory, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
The Gift of Song
...A maiden fair sang through a sunflower field
on a warm autumn day with the wind in her hair
A melody wafted aloft on the breeze
as a cloud frolicked by with so little a care
She smi...
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Categories:
tankard, song,
Form: Rhyme
Dramaturge
...I portrayed the knave of hearts again,
A role it would seem I was made for.
I ventured off script and silenced my critics
By drinking them under the table.
Classically trained in the tavern art...
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Categories:
tankard, allegory, drink, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Autumn Gold In Somerset Dialect
...Dozy with Cider
The tavern was quiet but for old farmer John,
when the Kings rider strode in demanding a bed,
He ordered his ale and sat next to the old sage,
“Where be all the villagers?” he sai...
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Categories:
tankard, birth, culture, drink, england,
Form: Rhyme
Symphonic Quiescent Overture Maestro Kant Imitate
...Symphonic Quiescent Overture – Maestro Kant Imitate
(alternately titled: a retrospective review
randomly selecting an outdated poem
stored within Apple icloud queue
methinks ye might might sa...
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Categories:
tankard, 12th grade, adventure, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Landsknecht's Drink
...Oh great Tavern!
Beautiful and wondrous inn
What countless prizes
Lie in wait inside!
Your vault keeps from us
Our treasured Mead, Wine, and Beer!
Oh great Mead!
Pour from the keg
Fill up y...
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Categories:
tankard, corruption, drink, friendship, military,
Form: Free verse
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
...I wandered lonely as a cloud
Captive to the wind and season
Storms around me raged with fury
I was becalmed without reason
Oh, the wind was fickle some days
And at times it would cease to blo...
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Categories:
tankard, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Horn Haiku For the Day
...God has a great goal,
Only honesty in each poll
That will save our soul
God golf is playing
Ball and soul started straying
Bad words was saying
When ship had anchored
Miracle from God occu...
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Categories:
tankard, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
The Campfire
...THE CAMPFIRE
Throughout all the worlds in days of olde
Around the campfire legends were told
From the sinking of galleons in various seas
That were laden with treasure and un found for years
T...
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Categories:
tankard, night, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Last Call
...Jo King loved frothy tankards of beer
Which she drank every day of the year
Interred in a keg
She swallowed each dreg
So her tombstone reads, "Wish you were here!"...
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Categories:
tankard, culture, drink, grave, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Blast of a Cast
...The blast of a cast aghast with fuss on a blunderbuss
Flew and grew a crew who rued chances and stances to discuss
Differences in conciliation conferences that coerced cooperation
Amplified by the...
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Categories:
tankard, poems,
Form: Free verse
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