only the birds love us
...I’m watching a journalist from France 2 or 3,
I watch Olivier Ménard from the TV l'équipe
I spoke to my conscientious mechanic on Thursday,
I observe the little baker who thinks alone,
I read th...
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Categories:
tunics, 9th grade, bird, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Part 2: As English As Sausage, Egg, Chips and Peas
...Then the guns roared!! and it was hard to distinguish the
Hush from the roaring; the two seemed almost
Indistinguishable.
Was it the roaring, I wondered, or was it the hush that was
The more ...
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Categories:
tunics, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Red
...The dream when the moon sneaks in my room,
I feel it in my heart and soul.
I see the red string floating, guiding, leading me away.
I'm walking, searching, looking when,
I hear the ocean calling,...
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Categories:
tunics, destiny, dream, emotions, family,
Form: Free verse
Wizards and Witches
...I'd love to paint, a picture for you, of images in my head.
Of a quirky old town, I'll set the scene, as you rise from a crooked bed.
The room you're in, whilst large in size, has rather strange de...
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Categories:
tunics, adventure, color, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Some See
...Some See
David J Walker
Some see sun
Some see none
some
see
the sum of
light and countable
luminations
Some see night
and fear
As the first creation
Falling near
Failing fe...
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Categories:
tunics, light,
Form: Free verse
Fashion In My Family
...My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas
Except my single gran...
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Categories:
tunics, family, fashion,
Form: Free verse
A Glimpse of Heritage
...A GLIMPSE OF HERITAGE
To Visit the past, is to understand your future.
The storm was moving away, the noise no longer pounding,
Sky turned blue from dark, thunder abating, hail disappearing,
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Categories:
tunics, future,
Form: Rhyme
Estimating Nine Months From Eskimo Kisses
...ESTIMATING NINE MONTHS FROM ESKIMO KISSES
TUNDRA tunics
tendered,
holding hot
homeothermic
sentient swaddling,
stirred with
warm waves of
cocoa cresting charm,
bathed in barome...
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Categories:
tunics, relationship, winter,
Form: Alliteration
Song of Great War
...The books they read were of the past,
of heroes charging to the last,
of native men in native lands
defeated by heroic bands
of horses, sword and flashing lance,
red tunics danced victories da...
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Categories:
tunics, anger, angst, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Borodino Part 1 By Mikhail Lermontov
...Guv, tell me, not without the reason
our Moscow in the fired treason
was burnt and left for French.
Oh, there were fights I see their splendours
so awesome and we have the embers,
No wonder Rus...
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Categories:
tunics, anger, conflict, memory, murder,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Color Gray
...Mice, rats, winter day clouds, coats, shawls.
Gray pants, tunics, bugles play calls.
Horses neigh for action hate stalls.
Ride hard brave scout.
Paint on iron battleship hulls
make rust stay out...
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Categories:
tunics, color,
Form: I do not know?
Out of Trenches
...Out of Trenches (WW1)
Out of trenches, we met face to face,
A young Soldier, probably about my age.
With rifle in hand we quavered,
My head, urging me to engage.
Our tunics were muddied and da...
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Categories:
tunics, conflict, courage, death, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Snake:A Creature So Amazing
...One sunny afternoon, I coiled
in the grass, and later wriggled
my way through the woods,
though scaly and limbless I am,
yet uniquely created and
outstanding among beasts.
My charming rhythmic
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Categories:
tunics, nature,
Form: Prose
The World Around Us
...Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripe...
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Categories:
tunics, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Pea Is Leaping
...One two three pea leap. Wow. A slip knot is neither a sleep nor a striped strap. But stealing from an arsenal area is not a wonderful idea is it really? Well come on....is it? Best keep quiet then an...
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Categories:
tunics, age, allah,
Form: I do not know?
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