Dandelion
...Drifting
Among azure skies
Needle-like threads
Decry two-hundred wishes.
Eleemosynary prayers
Line the winds of spring
In a cloud of floral snow
One wish permeates the air—
No mouth go hungr...
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Categories:
unslaked, flower, hope,
Form: Acrostic
Sweetly Terse
...at night, I think, it's really worse
coldly still and quiet dark
stubborn muses, rusted curse
careless drops on vellum stark
a captured fleeting moment
life gets balanced on a pen
turgi...
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Categories:
unslaked, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Marathon
...On occasion I ran the marathon
when I was younger and all my powers
of recuperation were much greater than
they are now. I remember in the hours
after the run was over how every bone
and joint i...
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Categories:
unslaked, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Hapless In Helmand
...four star circus
side show of war,
thugs on a hillside
another killing floor,
greedy men squabble loudly
gulping down the poor,
coalition vacuole
futility galore,
sobbing children in the ...
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Categories:
unslaked, war,
Form: I do not know?
Sex-Starved
...Desire coursing through my veins,
Blazing a trail through my sex-starved body.
Thought-patterns cease in my brain,
And a feral hunger dwells within my eyes.
This primal urge, this unslaked lust...
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Categories:
unslaked, passion, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Lady of the Lake Part I
...Mirror silver clad she stood, upon the lakes dark shore,
A spectral icy vision , that chilled me to the core.
A vapour’d hand she raised to lead, across the sheet glass lake
With racing heart and ...
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Categories:
unslaked, fantasyheart, heart, senses, silver,
Form: Dramatic Monologue