Ravens and Lilies
...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden
lilies and ravens
dance together making mud puddles
thick as salve caked on deep wounds
stemming ...
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Categories:
tinctures, betrayal, childhood, first love,
Form: Suzette Prime
Reflections of the past, visions of the future
...At the most serene place where peace is sown,
Our laughter mingles with the scent of meals,
We unite, based on stories we have known,
The telling of these fables still appeals.
Many days we sle...
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Categories:
tinctures, cheer up, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wild is the night
...There's an eerie feeling in the air tonight.
Voices in the distance seem full of fright.
Crisp cold winds that blow
chilling to the bone...
leaves rustling in the darkness, unknown.
Silence ev...
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Categories:
tinctures, anxiety, confusion, dark, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Old Glory Has Something to Say
...Old Glory has Something He Wants to Say
By – Roger White
The dawn’s first sunlight crests over the eastern horizon. A midnight dark sky leisurely changes tinctures: blue becomes purple, bright a...
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Categories:
tinctures, 12th grade, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Colors of Love
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Bursting shades of fire ember sweet desire
an Orange Jubilee, bathing in the sun
Wild charmed poppies, blushing sunsets
paprika colored dahlias blowing in the wind;
Nostalgic golden ...
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Categories:
tinctures, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Upon Waking
...
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like d...
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Categories:
tinctures, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative
The Quadricolour
...Written on 27 September For:
No. 1244 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
The Quadricolour
Let us...
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Categories:
tinctures, appreciation, independence day, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Lunar Phases of Deepest Thoughts
...Lunar phases of deepest thoughts
Fasi lunari dei piu' profondi pensieri
The unwritten absence of your
beautiful soul, before you entered my world—
I closed my eyes to the
sparkling tinctu...
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Categories:
tinctures, deep, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Apothecary
...on endless summer days
winter's feeble sun
apothecary of toxic tinctures
phantom of the night...
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Categories:
tinctures, night, summer, sun, winter,
Form: Free verse
Rambling Poetry
...Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring wit...
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Categories:
tinctures, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose
The Call of the Grimoire
...
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
...
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Categories:
tinctures, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative
Place of Respite
...Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.” Matthew 8:20 NIV
PLACE OF RESPITE
Cheek-tinge of pink daw...
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Categories:
tinctures, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Contraire
...Contraire
by Michael R. Burch
Where there was nothing
but emptiness
and hollow chaos and despair,
I sought Her ...
finding only the darkness
and mournful silence
of the wind entangling ...
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Categories:
tinctures, confusion, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Shadow of a Tree
...The sky, so overwhelming..
it simply beckons,
grabs you..draws
you to its changing colors..
The sky shifts with the sun,
that skims across like a Winter
of Alaskan full moons
in the twiligh...
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Categories:
tinctures, allusion, angst, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Charcoal Spirits
...A lone black crow
sits on a limb of a tree
amongst a crowd of trees
that surround the townhouses.
The trees' silhouettes
are drawn on the brick;
on the shingled roofs;
by the Sun this ...
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Categories:
tinctures, allusion, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
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