The Unfired Shot
...“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ? Wayne Gretzky”
Where courage sleeps, and doubt begins to bloom,
There stands a chance, unseen, unheard, unknown.
A fleeting moment, poised to meet ...
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Categories:
unfired, anxiety, courage, hockey, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow On Trail
...Collapsing inwards,
Been someone else outwards,
That’s who he desires to be,
Someone he wants others to see,
He’s fame-hunger stricken,
His coast he intends to widen,
He craves to be the cynos...
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Categories:
unfired, change, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Duel of Death
...The coldness of the night had past,
The light was set the die was cast,
A pair of mortals faced each other,
Neither thinking of his mother.
Each with an evil glint in his eye,
Each...
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Categories:
unfired, anger, betrayal, death, england,
Form: Free verse
Wood-Fired Kiln
...Potter loves the uncertainty of process.
The way the fire-ash binds to glaze.
The irregularity of flame's touch.
He carefully stacks the dried spun pieces
in a pile in the kiln, each piece touch...
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Categories:
unfired, art,
Form: Free verse
Let the Bullets Drop As Flowers
...Lifeless bullets asleep as captive
In the restive barrels of the cold guns
Cold as the shadow of death
Waiting camouflaged in the dark
Wake up at the strike of the trigger
Pulled by crooked fing...
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Categories:
unfired, analogy, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Cluck Put Purr Kee Kee
...HAPPY THANKSIVING TO ALL AMERICANS OUT THERE.
Cluck put-purr kee kee went the turkeys in the back of Jim's truck. He was delivering them to neighboring vicinities for Thanksgiving. When he re...
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Categories:
unfired, thanksgiving,
Form: Narrative
Would the Bullets Stop Midair
...Lifeless bullets sleep captive
In the barrels of the guns restive
Cold as the prison bunk
Sleep and wait in the dark
Wake up at the strike of the trigger
Pulled by men burning in anger.
The ...
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Categories:
unfired, anger, hate, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
For Akt, In Prison
...Which one first to the fire?
Who stokes with his oils
And his bones and his brush
The kiln and the pyre?
Who, so pointlessly young,
So tragically sired,
Can say to the Potter,
"My fuel is un...
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Categories:
unfired, dark, death of a
Form: Rhyme
All In a Mortal's Work
...God factories abound upon the mountains
and the plans are written in the holy books
but lack consistency from page to page...
reason enough to keep the cubicles apart,
unwired; the laborers are alwa...
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Categories:
unfired, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Enemy In Sight?
...Battle weary joints in intuitions arrayed lines,
Reconnoiter the ballistic armor dish,
Spy work encounters soft voluptuous designs,
Muzzle lifted arrogant projectile as gripe ball?
Overshoot ...
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Categories:
unfired, life
Form: Free verse
Writing Ii
...Wandering through verbiage
needing a Muse buttress
against the blue-lined emptiness
toward an expression to
portray the day,
the gift to uplift this life
sprung forth in a 3-ring binder.
Ti...
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Categories:
unfired, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
We . . .Not Frustrated(Prof. Olufemi Bamiro)uivc
...WE . . . NOT FRUSTRATED
Those whose mouth speak and ooze
Only fire of a voluble vibrating vocabulary
Those whose sin is just speaking for others
In order for their other orders not to be...
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Categories:
unfired, devotion, faith, inspirational, peoplefire,
Form: I do not know?