Colors of the Wind
...pause to hear a storm
listen to its vast noises
admire its voices
winds that blew in infamy
crackled as romantic fires
state huts wade through muck
spiders and newborns pancaked
trouble from...
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Categories:
wallops, appreciation, metaphor, natural disasters,
Form: Tanka
Haunted
...I felt it – stirring, spontaneous repulsion,
the darkness
Recovering from the steel black holes
Eyes intent on raping the soul
Ravishing the vulnerable,
Violating the hope, the wonder.
He was...
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Categories:
wallops, abuse, addiction, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Inapropos Trois Faux Pas Jokingly Blurted Out
...Inapropos trois faux pas jokingly blurted out...
yesterday August 30th, 2022.
The following fictitious account
predicated upon words spilling
out me mouth before taking time
to think through...
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Categories:
wallops, adventure, august, fate, funny
Form: Free verse
When Waves Attack
...Life on earth is like an ocean or open sea
which its vast body is just hard to watch or view;
Others look at it as a major mystery,
not seeing the colors of nature’s hidden hue.
Many minds try ...
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Categories:
wallops, life,
Form: Sonnet
Mom Morph
...Mom shrieks as I tap like Ginger Rogers on the kitchen floor.
The raggedy mop with rigid brows swishes me out the door.
With squinty eyes, the traffic cop regent-points to the ...
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Categories:
wallops, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Santa Hits the Snooze Button: For Christmas Cheer Contest
...Santa Hits The Snooze Button
(For Christmas Cheer contest)
Santa woke up feeling fruity
The Mrs was spark out
He grinned cos in a minute
His Rudolph clock would shout
Whinny, whinny, moo, q...
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Categories:
wallops, christmas, funny, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
Jesus
...JESUS
(Double Pleiades)
Jabbed their swords on Thy side
Jews mocked Thee… crucified
Jeering crowds - they condemned
Jud's flaw rolls down the lane.
Jagged scorns, wallops, spits
Jam-packe...
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Categories:
wallops, celebration, easter, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of An Element - Elements Part 2: Wind Contest
...Echoes of an Element (Elements Part2: Wind)
Blowing bits of bark beneath the elements wings.
Currents of cold air chill the country.
Whispering wind that wallops in whispered screams.
Howli...
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Categories:
wallops, earth, environment, wind,
Form: Alliteration
The Tomb
...Tomb where darkness traps
Where hate broods from deep within
Where the sadness grieves
Even to point of terror
And fear wallops a great blow
Russell Sivey...
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Categories:
wallops, holiday, life,
Form: Tanka
Crusifiction
...Blunt mallet wallops down,
On an iron nail, that pierces flesh,
And shatters bone and meets resistance,
In the hard wood beneath.
I try to imagine the feeling,
By pressing a biro into,
The pa...
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Categories:
wallops, devotion
Form: Free verse
Ringside
...the stallion gallops
as we dine on baked scallops
with pacman's wallops!...
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Categories:
wallops, happiness, people, seasons,
Form: Senryu