Sybarites
...Ideal citizens, you.
Dreamed-of private individuals,
With villas and servants.
Feasts, travels, lavish meals,
And drugs at the disposal of life.
Bravery is tiring,
Easier is indulgence,
Though...
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Categories:
tunnelled, addiction, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Tunnel To The Soul
...i find myself lost in a crowd.
i see a distant memory gaze by,
everything falls silent even when this place was so loud.
i tried to keep moving on past it,
but now i find myself seeking that plac...
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Categories:
tunnelled, cute, deep, first love,
Form: Free verse
Sequoia
...Born to a land unspoiled and free
The mighty sequoia was on the ascendancy
Ancient elders stood erect and proud
Free from threats to pierce a cloud
Out of nowhere came a destructive presence
L...
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Categories:
tunnelled, change, death, farewell, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Lane
...Our desires have brought us together,
Fate has brought us from our different worlds,
We have brought our disparate dispositions to a focal point,
We have intertwined our interests.
We have mea...
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Categories:
tunnelled, love,
Form: Free verse
In Quest of My Love
...In quest of true love I tunnelled my way to other side,
But unseen forces had moved my love to another side!
Flower gardens no longer bloom where she does not reside,
Wilted flowers weep her abs...
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Categories:
tunnelled, first love, lost love,
Form: Ghazal
Pentapolis Revision 2
...PENTAPOLIS
GAZA.
From this small clearing he won’t move
into the ligneous shades of dark,
fixed stillness in his day’s aubade,
all circled there by timber spars.
ASHKELON
At times a brigh...
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Categories:
tunnelled, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Emerald Waves
...Emerald Waves
emerald tides rise
boatmen hold breath while tunnelled
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Categories:
tunnelled, ocean,
Form: Haiku
The Wailing Guitar
...Savoured roots at the tip of a spade
Dying leaves escape their own tree’s shade
We’re in a draught, spare me your tears
Unless you’re a portfolio full of shares
The land is levelled by green bo...
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Categories:
tunnelled, dark,
Form: Lyric
In the Tunnelled Aoth
...I can ask for you to spare me a thought
But you can never spare me your heart
What matters to people like us the most
Is the demon of contempt we host
Our emotions are skeletons
On the face, a...
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Categories:
tunnelled, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Froggy the Cow - a Nonsense Verse
...He hatched from an egg, Froggy the cow,
He sometimes barked, or purred ‘meow’
On May 37, the month of Noctember
He tunnelled inside, and went into slumber...
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Categories:
tunnelled, nonsense,
Form: Clerihew
Amidst My Futures Past
...For what purpose after purpose do we come and go
Entering from utopia whilst life bestows
Sharpened corners lacerate living skin
Unknown of it's actions that happen within
Reflection to selecti...
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Categories:
tunnelled, death, depression, loss, lost
Form: Quatrain