Along With The Thunder
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With limp thunder
came silent still-born rain.
Sky broke,
clouds chose
to play apart today,
as the gray clad stand-ins
in blue duffel coats,
and snow white hoods
slunk away, to fade aw...
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Categories:
unmounted, storm,
Form: Free verse
Safe and Sound
...chrysalis tears
meconium oozes
soft wings cling
butterfly’s
pupal fluid
red like blood
caterpillar and chrysalis
combine to change
ugly duckling to swan
first flight
like a...
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Categories:
unmounted, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 147
...You said you were cured
What sickness doth ail you?
I thought we were friends
So what wall did you break through?
We chat so infrequently
Your condition is hidden
Like you locked away feeling...
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Categories:
unmounted, best friend, care, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Just Another Cowboy
...Riding out among the tall grass and sage
I came on a pile of old cowboy's bones
No grave was dug and there was no marker
to say who it was that died here alone
I wonder if when his final light ...
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Categories:
unmounted, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ships Upon the Ocean
...Mythica wishes me to curse her
might she tell the tale of our
troubles to find make script for the
fools of Olympus. She then shall
become pregant that the Gods of mortals
shall see her troubli...
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Categories:
unmounted, beautiful, betrayal, character, culture,
Form: Bio
Bricks and Feathers
...are eagle things
it was noticed
that she didn't take a fall...
the wings in her back
were really God's call
" I was walking
in a very green field
when I saw a bald eagle
who presented a shi...
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Categories:
unmounted, god, woman,
Form: Free verse
Loved and Protected
...Last night I heard a horn scream.
I ran to my window and witnessed this scene.
I could see a man on a horse in the shadow of night.
Then the rider unmounted and was surrounded by light.
From th...
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Categories:
unmounted, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 16
...As they reach the golden gates,
turning, they do face the foe,
the Arlaghs,
they would come with power and might,
too kill,
the ground will shake when they charge,
they shall run hard for their...
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Categories:
unmounted, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Blind Passion
...The horse – a creature of blind passion – pawed
The earth beside the silent fallen form
A digger of graves more noble and more odd
Than ever I had chanced to see before
His raven mane flashed i...
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Categories:
unmounted, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Queen Tamar
...She had a sword
To cut of the heads
Of subjects not fitting
She has a heart
That lies upon a cold stone
Torn, withered
A knight from afar
On horseback did ride
Passing by the tombstone
He glanced,...
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Categories:
unmounted, adventure, beauty, death, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Free Cee I Showed This To Ginsburg the Other Day and He Wants Me To Give Up My Literary License
...SIX AND SO SICK
into the eternal. far from the real
saddened by six bells which no longer peel
six clappers stand now, stilled and so quiet
death took them away and life could not deny it
ex...
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Categories:
unmounted, angst,
Form: Englyn