Falcon Fuel
...Sycophants, thy future.
On what does it depend?
Gold upon the ground, be pure!
River, yield thy bend!
Tormented, ye prophets?
Pleiades, rescue me!
Toolshed, art thou Tophet's?
Fly, O fancy-f...
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Categories:
toolshed, french,
Form: Rhyme
There's Nothing To It
...There’s Nothing To It
I found a piece of nothing in my back yard yesterday.
I’d planned to mow the lawn so tried to move the piece away.
I thought to get behind it, backing off and sneaking roun...
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Categories:
toolshed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Now
..." ... full blast ...."
357 is a great tale to tell...
Tesla saw the steps
so invented his call
And then in the silence
of Olympian ground
"...I heard you rang?..."
Said d;Meter to them ...
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Categories:
toolshed, fate, god,
Form: Free verse
A Kind of Loving
...Some thought her a clinging troll,
others the saccharine offering
of a dark love.
The mother loomed over his life,
swaddled his senses.
Each day, the boy
stumbled further from that womb.
H...
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Categories:
toolshed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Too Loving
...Some saw a clinging troll,
others the saccharine flesh
of a dark love.
The mother loomed over his brow,
swaddled his senses.
Each day, the boy
stumbled further from that
too loving embrace.
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Categories:
toolshed, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Desert
...I met her in grade 7
She was a bowl of sunshine, with anxiety and hope mixed in.
A desert, where things thrive in situations that most can't.
She made me feel like the sun was something she ...
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Categories:
toolshed, best friend, crush, cute
Form: Free verse