Exiles
...Potent grief exists in the paternoster
recited by exiles each break of dawn —
and they never cease to mourn with drums.
Exiles are men
with two lives,
and they often fast,
preferring to sip ...
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Categories:
treacly, political,
Form: Free verse
Exiles
...Potent grief exists in the paternoster
recited by exiles each break of dawn —
and they never cease to mourn with drums.
Exiles are men
with two lives,
and they often fast,
preferring to sip g...
...
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Categories:
treacly, political,
Form: Free verse
Unintended Innuendo
...Line of inquiry:
“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause
though we’re gentle, not hostile
we dimi...
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Categories:
treacly, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
An Ultimatum
...
An ultimatum stood at my door
And greeted me so fondly
To the tune of my thumping heartbeat.
"Live as I seem or die as I am"
The words had reverberated in my skull and rattled my bones-
Si...
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Categories:
treacly, depression, discrimination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tasting
...Treacly sweet is the juice of summer berries,
enervating me to anticipate it upon my lips.
Savoring the confection of melted chocolate
is a delicious flavor to lick from my fingertips.
Intoxi...
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Categories:
treacly, senses,
Form: Rhyme
The Heart's Eye
...
"The Heart’s Eye"
When the heart’s eye
speaks to you,
you listen, just as
when the heart’s eye
sees how it all is,
you feel, touched
in the mind
the heart’s eye
i...
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Categories:
treacly, heart, muse,
Form: Narrative
Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...
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Categories:
treacly, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
...
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the ...
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Categories:
treacly, dark, muse,
Form: Narrative
R I P Dad
...S ubsequent period of flashbacks sunbath my heart
Acccosted my adjourned remembrance: got me intermittent
More laughter in disguise not to divulge the obscure
Stormed me in the cloud of memories...
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Categories:
treacly, art, crazy, death, deep,
Form: Acrostic
Old Melody
...Saccharine tune flows in the air of the gloomy morning,
Birds in the branches of the trees chirping
The cold breeze touches each inch of my memory
The mix of black and rainbow drops in this thin a...
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Categories:
treacly, farewell, love,
Form: Free verse
Seduction On the Quay
...He caught the faint scent of perfume as she walked by
The treacly fragrance of gardenias caused him to sigh
She moved with grace and poise that caught his eye
Her sultry wink made him quiver at wh...
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Categories:
treacly, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Panther
...I've read legendary tales that convey
an emerald eyed panther stalks its prey.
Hunger tells him it's meat he must crave
He consumes his kill within his dark cave.
He feasts and then peacefu...
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Categories:
treacly, cat, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
I Danced With the Wind
...You were sweetly seduced by my treacly scent
to come a little closer and take a daring peek
Then, tears spilled down your crimson cheek
and a drop of blood from your finger was rent
My hero, ...
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Categories:
treacly, flower,
Form: Personification
Alas Ample Alliteration Available
...Alas ample alliteration available?!
True (terrific) title: Trump's truckling tutored troopers...;
wily word wizard worried,
where world wide web wickedly wends.
Triumphantly tenaciously (try ...
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Categories:
treacly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Dead Crush
...
"Dead Crush"
Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a
conversation would
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering
watered-dow...
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Categories:
treacly, courage, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
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