I Am the Watchman on the Hill
...I am the watchman on the hill,
My brother’s cry, I hear it still.
Though shadows stretch and winds grow wild,
I’ll cross the dark to find the child.
Not born of blood alone is kin,
But shared ...
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Categories:
unmarred, best friend, brother, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Catch it, hold it
...You snuggle in beside me,
claiming the crook of my arm,
like the last piece of our favourite puzzle
finally finding its place.
I rest my cheek against your precious head,
waiting for this mome...
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Categories:
unmarred, fear, introspection, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Thornless Wonder
...In hushed greenhouses, a marvel grows,
A pilgrimage for those who know:
A rose unmarred by nature's thorns,
Its beauty is pure, as morning dawns.
I dreamed of its stem, a silken cord,
Coiled g...
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Categories:
unmarred, flower, rose,
Form: Free verse
Two Roads Diverged---
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Lord, which road should I take?
They look equally appealing. I have a hard
choice to make.
From where I stand,
both ways appear to be unmarred
and grand!
I cry,
“With doubt, I’ve spa...
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Categories:
unmarred, angst, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Raven and Wren
...RAVEN AND WREN
As the world wakes up
To the sun’s gentle rays of light
Frozen memories melt and flow
Penetrate but do not satiate
Moments of insipid sight
A scenery of incessant delight
As ...
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Categories:
unmarred, bird, fate, hurt, leaving,
Form: Free verse
CHRONICLES OF ALENE COLLINS
...CHRONICLES OF ALENE COLLINS
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Alene Collins, a tender soul in tumultuous terrain,
Touched by turmoil, torn by tenderness & pain.
She grew in her teenage testimonies, trial...
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Categories:
unmarred, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Abecedarian - true adulation
...Anchored in the Aura of your loyalty, the
Breathtaking mood you enhance in me, for I
Cannot fathom the length of your love
Definitely not enveloped in envy but care
Every time that phone rings yo...
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Categories:
unmarred, best friend, care, celebration,
Form: Abecedarian
Sun Dance
...Our scars
self-requited
define
who we are
The pain
when it’s welcome
embedded
unmarred
Each blemish
redeeming
those choices
to blame
Absolving
our future
releasing
the shame
...
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Categories:
unmarred, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Fallen Sparrow
...Oh, dear Sparrow! Fallen still
Softly feathered where you lay
As of a soldier gently eased
To sleep in dreams away
Whose dying wish was lost, was lost
In wars of yesterday
Your folded wings a...
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Categories:
unmarred, bird, death, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Her Beauty and Her Sin
...So is she seen with innocence unmarred
to shun the eyes of those taken with her
to flaunt her beauty without fair regard
her perfume to him but a sweet liqueur
lust hoisting him upon his own peta...
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Categories:
unmarred, beauty, lust, sensual,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Victor Hugo Translation
...Victor Hugo "Love Stronger Than Time"
Translation by Michael Burch
Since I first set my lips to your full cup,
Since my pallid face first nested in your hands,
Since I sensed your soul and ever...
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Categories:
unmarred, french,
Form: Verse
Unbowed
...How would it feel having no single woe to bear,
In that sooty heart oft stung by ceaseless tear?
Wouldn't the sobs-accustomed soul court pain,
To save those melancholic rhythms in its stain?
It...
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Categories:
unmarred, allegory, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Didactic
Flowers In the Concrete
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Innocence lost,
virgin hearts often get paved over
by oppression gravel pressure
Hardened thoughts laid cover the privileged lily eyes,
and the tulip pupils of those in poverty
Unjust...
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Categories:
unmarred, allusion, imagery, perspective, society,
Form: Free verse
Dragons Eye
...She is a scryer, a seer, prognosticator;
but no crystal ball for her...no.
She uses her blue eye instead;
a dragon’s eye.
Found in an inactive volcano,
former dragon’s lair;
three ...
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Categories:
unmarred, animal, faith, future, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Today
...Gazing at the portrait,time's silent gauge,
I recalled a memory from long ago.
Your youthful beauty set my heart ablaze
With figure divine and face aglow .
In days of old,you held me in your th...
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Categories:
unmarred, life,
Form: Free verse
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