Milton Creek, Another Chapter
...The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking was lingering in the morning air
Words alone can...
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Categories:
unbolted, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Three Legged Table
...I placed my glass down on the table
next to the leg, curiously laid
upon its heavy, wine-stained surface.
A perfectly fine leg, I noted;
unbolted, removed with some intent.
My host viewed my c...
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Categories:
unbolted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Autumn's Feast
...Autumns red dusk falls,
laborers leave their fields.
the day's last bell rings,
the hour comes 'round.
The cellar doors burst open,
the pantry doors unbolted,
the table is layed,
the gates of ...
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Categories:
unbolted, autumn, celebration, food, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Adventures In Childrearing
...Mad Max and the Thunderdome
Matinee at the brand new cine
money for tickets but little else
Indeed we had not any
my purse the repository
Each a burger and coke
finding the theater empty
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Categories:
unbolted, fun, together,
Form: Rhyme
Cemetery
...Venue for brooding over Death’s mischief
While equipped with handkerchief…
Tears misty eyes shall unlock
Already by heavy heart unbolted
Over Death’s wasting clock
And angering daring of the Lor...
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Categories:
unbolted, cry, death, depression, ,
Form: Rhyme
My Ancestral House
...My remote ancestral house I left a long time ago,
keeps on flashing with longing on my memory canvas.
So, one summer on the faded trail of beckoning nostalgia
I trace the track of t...
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Categories:
unbolted, house, old,
Form: Free verse
A Voice of My Own
...For years it had flown through dim canyons,
hollows where the mute sheltered in echoing caves.
Poems shifted loose and gearless.
Words darted for cover as if caught
in an empty bell tower.
On...
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Categories:
unbolted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Periwinkle Time
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"The Periwinkle Time"
Blues crushed prepossessing Violet
Lavender starbursts
sharp as diamonds
undressed, a soul preys
with black as crow f...
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Categories:
unbolted, freedom, imagery, love, mirror,
Form: Romanticism
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
...From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jai...
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Categories:
unbolted, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Years In Captivity
...He unbolted the locks
and untied my restraints,
which left painful bruises
and permanent marks.
I could barely gather up
the strength to stand up
and make it to the door.
Then when I tri...
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Categories:
unbolted, abuse, change, cry, how
Form: Lyric
Unbolted Doorsill
...A pristine ambit
Unlocks forepart to commence
Restored life events
Ameriolate happenings
Metamorphose forever...
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Categories:
unbolted, feelings,
Form: Tanka
The Unlocked Creaky Gate
...The Unlocked Creaky Gate
The giant iron gate creaked
At the touch of my feverish hands.
Without permission
I unbolted the unlocked gate.
Sweaty forehead, numb hands,
Iced feet, my stomach t...
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Categories:
unbolted, garden, god, heart,
Form: Free verse
Arrested Moment
...The cottage gate now stands ajar
Unbolted by wind and rain
And lonely pink roses growing apart
Reach to touch as in sweet refrain
Crisp silence rules both day and night
Uneasiness settles as my hear...
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Categories:
unbolted, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Reapers Cloak
...The mysterious cloaked woman stiffly walked down the dark damp alleyway.
She listened to the talkative wind blow through the leafless frozen trees as if they
were whispering about the sad look up...
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Categories:
unbolted, death, depression, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Lyric
The Unbolted Light
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Falling like snowflakes
on webs of forgiveness
spinning through clouds
in the unbolted light
searching so softly
down dark Autumn pathways
hoping to find our way in the night.
Savo...
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Categories:
unbolted, faith, inspirational, uplifting, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
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