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Tannic Poems

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I feigned to not see Duke Caboom
        as rode, he did, across my room
            and filled my gut with instant doom
    his motorcycle - silent!
my fear so waxing violent

        and th...

Categories: tannic, analogy, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

The New Face of War

...this soldier took those rounds so they could save

their fellow conscripts from their early grave

how ghastly tannic, tastes such horrid truth

though warm as blood, or tart as sweet vermouth
...

Categories: tannic, angst, holocaust, horror, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many

...Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
  (A Native American Food Source)

Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,

Nature
sprinkles its bounty
...

Categories: tannic, creation, history, humanity, native
Form: Verse

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Civil Twilight

...i hate a night as this
minutes turning as the fan
slow and back again
metronomic 
lives slipped past each other
spotlights on dark water
arc light dimming
tenebrous
murmured civilities
fauca...

Categories: tannic, time,
Form: Free verse

Nocturnal Monsters

...Zombies yearn, xanthic weathered

vaults, under tannic, stagnant, repugnant quagmires.

Places odious nocturnal monsters like killer jackals, ingest

humans, grappling for every delicious, 

...

Categories: tannic, fantasy, halloween, horror, imagery,
Form: ABC

Colours

...Pretty Penny pockets persimmons for their orange meat tempts,
these oval jewels when ripe adore green lime and white plates.
Diospyros, divine fruit, ripens bagged upon her counter waiting.
Soon, she...

Categories: tannic, garden, green, imagination, red,
Form: Pantoum

It Was the Third of June

...June Second at the beach we played scrabble
He protested the use of “ode”
I told him of the “Ode to Billy Joe”

With friends we laughed the entire way home
And when they left, Daniel proposed...

Categories: tannic, lost love, dog, dog,
Form: Free verse

For the Poet.....

...My two miracles, black and white lay dreaming. 
I roll the last of the Cabernet over my tongue
as I
inhale every drop of the prose she has so skillfully penned; 
tannic, yet satisfactory.

The ...

Categories: tannic, dedication, on writing and
Form: Free verse

Dregs of the Cup

...Straining to swallow the remedy,
Thick like blood with the stinch
Of gall mingled with death
And the after taste of pleasure-
None running out the corners
Of his mouth- the Physician drank
The ...

Categories: tannic, death, faith, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry

All On a Sunday

...You free me
with this jettison wake
on the back of the boat
while the motor is brooding
too loud to engage in the tannic specifics
or to single the brunt of our salt conversation
Cormorants wis...

Categories: tannic, adventure, happiness, life, nature,
Form: Free verse