Words from a Woman
...Mrs. Holloway polishes her poetry dimly,
Regaling herself with the accoutrements of
Selected poetry, cluttered and less jinxed
By way of satanic slamming by famished,
Idle critics who read The Ne...
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Categories:
taverns, city, poetry, woman,
Form: Free verse
Welsh Winter : englyn
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weathering Wales in bleak winter is hard
though starred sheep remain sleek
taverns roaring fires a feat
making Celtic maidens sweet
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Categories:
taverns, allusion, england, fire, how
Form: Englyn
In the diaphanous light of morning, when dawn paints the horizon with golden whispers
...In the diaphanous light of morning, when dawn paints the horizon with golden whispers,
The earth rises from its deep slumber, dreaming of the green phantoms of revival,
An untamed longing is born d...
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Categories:
taverns, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
And here we are, on the orbit of our illusions
...And here we are, on the orbit of our illusions,
civilized madmen who have lost their compass,
the divine savage in garments of convention,
hiding the mysteries of the true soul,
living in the sha...
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Categories:
taverns, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Next Zimbabwe - A call to rise
...**The Next Zimbabwe: A Call to Rise**
In lands where dreams were forged in fire,
A tale of strength, of fierce desire,
From ashes of despair, they’ve learned to climb,
Zimbabwe’s spirit s...
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Categories:
taverns, africa, america, anger, birth,
Form: Other
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..
Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled.
Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...
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Categories:
taverns, culture,
Form: Free verse
October Nips
...Busty shaped and large of hip
the busy winds of October
buffet my brain
within its whistling cave.
Around the shoulders
of every lumpy molehill
taverns and tankards
bloom in a russet corner ...
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Categories:
taverns, poetry,
Form: Free verse
After Sunset
...The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade,
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering o...
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Categories:
taverns, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
The Secrets Of Sin Revealed
...Beneath thick trees, where shadows grow,
The air grows heavy, the night does call.
A flask uncorked, a hand pulls tight,
The amber liquid steals the light.
Guns rest cold on wooden shelves,
Si...
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Categories:
taverns, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is a Poem
...I’ve heard it said that poetry is dead
But I don’t believe that’s true.
It runs in our veins like water to rain
Somewhere inside me and you.
It’s up in the air, in circles and squares
And ocea...
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Categories:
taverns, beauty, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Harmony
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The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering ...
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Categories:
taverns, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle of the Two
...The aroma of battle between cheese and charcuterie is in the air,
As the red wine flows and cider that tastes like a pear.
Rack after rack full of bottles to sip,
I race between each place and l...
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Categories:
taverns, food,
Form: Rhyme
Cheese Wars
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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...
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Categories:
taverns, allusion, conflict, society,
Form: Free verse
Night Terrors
...As I awakened to the night terrors again it's 3am. I know I'm being monitored in my own home Ciro Gargano installs cameras to watch my every movement in order to know when I write in my journal he br...
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Categories:
taverns, allah,
Form: Rispetto
The Cheese Wars
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It's a new day as the hot sun starts,
here reporting on the cheese battle.
Overnight the wine and cheese taverns,
moved in for the cracker spread.
The cider & charcuterue shacks,
were ...
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Categories:
taverns, food, fun, giggle, sun,
Form: Free verse
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