Only fair it ended all square
...Even sagacious tribes of loquacious scribes fail to describe the goodness gracious..bodacious..outrageous..tenacious..courageous vibes from both sides
Flush with the lush lexicon repository in the p...
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Categories:
teems, sports,
Form: Free verse
The Jungle Untamed
..."Lost, in a fight for survival, a man refuses to succumb to a harsh wilderness." - quote by poet.
A great aerial adventure comes to
A harrowing end for one man.
His hot air balloon mal...
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Categories:
teems, adventure, horror, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Secret Words Zephyr
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Written: June 22, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Joseph May
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Pristine splendor, saunter dark path
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Categories:
teems, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Roundel
Do poets write what readers hear?
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Poets have multiple aims, modes, reasons to write,
Which may match what readers want downright.
Some poets are simply lovers of words and language.
How they twist and turn, and meld on a page....
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Categories:
teems, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
There Is A Place
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Take my outstretched hand...
Come away with me, my dearest.
There is a special place for us...
Our paradise; a wondrous departure
From this crazy, maddening worl...
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Categories:
teems, beauty, imagery, imagination, love,
Form: Verse
Letter Ends Her Name Nevermore ''E'': New Poetic Form--TEARASSONANCENET
...Eve chose neither red nor green between these,
Eat, sweetened me' feet needn't desert Eden,
Keep earthen delved deep beneath heightened trees,
Heedless sell serpent issue agreed in.
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Categories:
teems, analogy,
Form: Sonnet
After The Flood
...Written: April 12, 2024
Rumi Quote: "I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light"
1st place co...
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Categories:
teems, analogy, rain,
Form: Rhyme
The System
...In shadows cast by Western might,
The System whispers, a colonial blight.
1. Shatter morals, a cultural fray,
where heritage falters, lost in dismay.
Reduced to echoes of a proud past,
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Categories:
teems, africa, analogy, black african
Form: Free verse
Songs of Soul COS No 1: AABB
...As the blade searches for the life of me,
The torment glides the blade with certainty,
Deeper the journey as my body writhe,
The pain lingers as I'm denied relief,
Suspicion mingles with the bloo...
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Categories:
teems, analogy, character, emotions, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Sunshine Is My Pot of Gold
...Clement weather is often just my dream.
I don’t mind wispy white clouds way up high,
or marshmallow ones topped with whipping cream.
Alas, brooding nimbus are drawing nigh,
I yearn fo...
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Categories:
teems, weather,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Trees
...A tree is a tree,
whether small or tall, but free,
touch it to feel its vibes,
watch it to feel its hues.
Spring delights trees,
Blossoms bloom, fragrance teems,
Bees and birds taste the nect...
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Categories:
teems, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Through Her Eyes
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Through Her Eyes
It’s through her eyes, that hide her cries,
one sees into her soul
which feigns the fears and teems with tears
that time cannot console.
S...
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Categories:
teems, native american, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Journey
...At ten the road is seldom marked.
Mile markers are closer at ninety.
The road of life is long or short,
depending on where you are.
The in between is often seen
with crystalline clarit...
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Categories:
teems, age, autumn, dream, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Haiku Trail
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rotten old giant
teems with new life anyway
living in the past
a rock thwarts progress
and it also holds things up ~
location is king
a weed and a tree
all that distinguishes the...
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Categories:
teems, appreciation, nature,
Form: Haiku
Colors Are the Kings Delight
...Colors are the King's delight at first light.
A shepherd’s green pasture and quiet streams
in piquant blues. Eden’s unbruised fruit teems.
The shadows waning, bittersweet’s delight
of th...
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Categories:
teems, christian,
Form: Other
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