when no water
... coffee
from stale flask
itchy armpits
no shower |||||| soap waits
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Categories:
underbellies, allusion, appreciation, character, drink,
Form: Other
THE PRISMATIC SELF
...Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
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“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
a...
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Categories:
underbellies, age, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Bio
Sliders
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"Sliders"
500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,...
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Categories:
underbellies, satire,
Form: Narrative
UNDERBELLIES
...UNDERBELLIES
What underbelly is this
containing quiet grasping greed for
my magical sword gifted to me by St Michael ?
What underbelly is this that
deciphers my Heart thro...
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Categories:
underbellies, 12th grade, courage, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Arrivals
...Night thunder arrives. Occult spacecraft descend,
hurl giant underbellies of sound downward -
climactic events galvanize grouting and glass.
The next boom is distant, yet lightning streaks
acro...
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Categories:
underbellies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To Keenly Beanly
...If my poetry were a place it would be Keenly Beanly Pumpkin Pie
There would be gootslangs, underbellies, and brazen cats that fly.
Trixie muse would be wearing a gold crown with emerald jewels roun...
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Categories:
underbellies, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Above
...Thunder arrives.
Occult spacecraft hurl giant underbellies of sound
downward -
galvanize grouting.
A thud on the roof,
broken feathers flop.
An electric pause,
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Categories:
underbellies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Wildflower Bouquet
...A walk through the meadow seems in order
The sun is peaking through some wispy cloud,
Coreopsis is in full bloom along the border
While verbena and cosmos are standing proud.
I make...
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Categories:
underbellies, animal, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Commercial Beggers
...They plead with us
manipulating
pain and hunger
between the segments
of broken merriment.
Beggars
paid big bucks
to raise funds
tearing at the tender
underbellies
tormenting the scorched so...
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Categories:
underbellies, christmas,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Rhythms and Rhymes
...The Power of Rhythms and Rhymes
The power of one single voice. Words, like tender warriors, sent into tornadoes of chaos – healing – restoring. Revealed by inspiration. Renewing radiance. High...
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Categories:
underbellies, inspiration, poetry, power, wisdom,
Form: Haibun
Thunder Arrives
...Night thunder arrives. Occult spacecraft descend,
hurl giant underbellies of sound downward.
Climactic events galvanize grouting.
The next boom is distant,
other places are scorched or illumin...
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Categories:
underbellies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Power Flower
...Flower power
“If you’re going to
San Francisco be sure to
wear a flower
in your hair”
long and shaggy
shagged longing wild
And to Berlin or
Paris for that
matter to dream to
meet a gi...
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Categories:
underbellies, love,
Form: Free verse
I Love You, My Loneliness
...The snowy mountaintops at the distance
Long trodden ways criss-crossing my momentary dreams
I perch upon the wings of poetry, my engrossing passion
I reach there Edmund, Tenzing Norgay...
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Categories:
underbellies, dream, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Lyric
Drive
...i can hear the wet street
under brilliant white walls
black underbellies pressing
themselves softly
against the white lines
the sound of the wheels turning
the rustle of the trees as we pass
a road t...
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Categories:
underbellies, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Home In the Empire of Ice
...They poke small heads out from
their moms’ underbellies.
Feeling chilled, they retreat
to their parents’ safe spot.
Receiving nourishment,
the chicks grow and adapt.
One day, left alone,
bec...
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Categories:
underbellies, animals,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
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