Catch 22
...The beginning
of the end
The end
of the beginning
To look
and not see
A desperate
path
To start
what can’t finish
Destroying
tomorrow
When eyes
remain closed
The future
— uncast
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Categories:
uncast, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Hateful Thoughts
...A hateful dance, a twisted reel,
Where judgment's call is sharp as steel.
'You people' stare, with eyes so cold,
A chilling tale, a story told
Of hateful thoughts, a whispered blight,
And hatefu...
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Categories:
uncast, emotions, feelings, hate, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Once More
...I contemplate the bobber on the water.
It is as still as a friend’s prayer at meeting.
Connected to this moment by monofilament
I sit as if I were asleep.
A gust of north wind roils the surfa...
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Categories:
uncast, age, anxiety, fishing, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Lockdown 2020
...First off, i would like to get out, that I'm far from a poet, yet i have so very much to say,
There it is again, a heavy load circulating around my mind, my heart is yelling out so very loudly, yet...
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Categories:
uncast, care, change, confusion, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting On Forever
...Winter days take hold
keeping us hostage to the chill and cold
in forgotten youth of early spring
leaves us only time on which to cling;
the shadows dark and gray
inch thru the windy rain an...
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Categories:
uncast, age, dream, time,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy Escapes
...No clock can lay claim
to the moment untimed
Though hands finely set
still a mystery divine
Each tick plays a cadence
to what is now past
But what of the future
its measure uncas...
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Categories:
uncast, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Boadicea Blood Cup
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"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely l...
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Categories:
uncast, daughter, home, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Temptress
...Oh, my sweet temptress of the night, with dazzling diamond smiles,
A haze, a darkness thou has cast over these childish eyes.
Bewitching, beguiling your webs are spun like heavy curtains on my bro...
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Categories:
uncast, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
This Love To Share
...When will these eyes be blessed to surely see
A moments scene uncast to me before
Lights last flicker yet born to be of thee
Could but dare to love you all the more
From far...
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Categories:
uncast, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet
By Half
...The mold has broken,
our future uncast
The best of remembrance,
severed in half
(Train From Grantham: July, 2016)...
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Categories:
uncast, love,
Form: Ballad
Trust In Love
...trust in love, and always
listen to the beat of our wings
in the free wind.
love is not weak, nor like
uncast iron.
look not to blood nor muscle
for the secret of its strength.
love is not so ...
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Categories:
uncast, love,
Form: Free verse
One In Three
...Everyone thinks you cast a spell on me.
I did not say the words that bind, you did.
As you whispered them into the atmosphere.
You tied our souls together.
Not I.
You know the risks you where taking ...
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Categories:
uncast, passion, longing, magic,
Form: Free verse
The Long Race
...Live life as if today is the last,
In a lane with only one speed-fast,
With a direction of your own to become someone,
A twist of hope and faith will get the job done.
With different sounds that ...
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Categories:
uncast, lifelife, words, heart, car,
Form: Blank verse
The Unholy One
...Rays of the sun reflected my sinful image on a blood river
got every wrongful part of me to quarrel and shiver
happiness is what i sought, remorse is for givers
every natural-colored spot ON my he...
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Categories:
uncast, forgiveness, loveme, heart, desire,
Form: Verse