Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze
...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village,
an ear clapping, full sailed, fog
moors itself to the rooftops,
then hides all in a breezeless blear.
Rheumy eyes peep out from nets,
damp noses s...
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Categories:
warding, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Warding
...Like unwilling alchemy,
A forceful transmutation,
Tragedy to sanity -
Through sudden abnegation.
With fluid emotions -
The mixing of potions -
Alchemical abjuration....
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Categories:
warding, anxiety, conflict, emotions, self,
Form: Rhyme
Demons
...This poem is dedicated to my best friend kat.
For we are all demons!
Demons
In ages of old, when myths held sway,
Demons walked Earth, at the...
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Categories:
warding, class,
Form: Free verse
Haunted Woods
...
Behind silvery gray animus clouds, the moon does hide.
The night does cry; its heartbeat rise and falls, like the tide.
Celestial, sleepless, unbending, cold night gathered overhead,
Veiling eer...
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Categories:
warding, dark, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Feral Glamour
...Wild berries and poison ivy wrap me,
warding off trespassers with their armor;
So toxic the taste will guard gingerly,
a virulent warning doused in glamour;
Maybe you should read the full disclos...
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Categories:
warding, emotions, feelings, fruit,
Form: Dizain
Panoply
...Poetry’s spoken armor
repels the pointed spear
warding off tomorrow’s scars
enemies in fear
Each word thus protected
as phrases form anew
to vanquish what the darkness brings
— new battlegroun...
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Categories:
warding, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Aeonian Probity Promised
...The heart can carry pain like a talisman.
Warding off further pain.
Encased in hebetude.
Wallowed in a plethora of flummox.
Like a butterfly in chrysalis.
A radiant sapphire evanescent.
Rhapsod...
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Categories:
warding, peace,
Form: Free verse
THE WORD vs THE WORLD
...THE WORD vs THE WORLD
Wise words wield weapons versus woeful worldly woes.
Wondrous words wage war against woeful worlds
Wielding wisdom, wit, and worthy worth.
Words weave witty wisdom, wardin...
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Categories:
warding, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Crossroads
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Puzzling, miraculous and random
Are the ways of life
Thinking, probing and planning
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Categories:
warding, confusion, fate, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
...Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
The idea of Friendship Day originated
in the United States in 1919,
proposed by Joyce Hall,
the founder of Hallmark cards.
It gained offi...
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Categories:
warding, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling Safe
...Archangel Michael protects me nightly
warding off evil spirits
I can slumber relaxed...
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Categories:
warding, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Kimo
The Feared Life of Shadrach Stone
...Shadrach Stone had lived a rather feared life.
Now, it’s back for him like a butcher’s knife.
A man he’d choked in tears leaving his wife,
In many relaxed homes Virus of Strife…
Hammer that cru...
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Categories:
warding, business, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Lord, God, Please
...God, please help cleanse my soul
To last while I grow old
I yearn deeply to feel whole
To serve your kingdom is the goal
Lord, please save my spirit
Please cleanse my conscience to hear it
Yo...
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Categories:
warding, christian, god, gospel, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Commenting On Prayer
...Current that makes the dark bright,
Restores spiritual eye sight,
Something for warding off fight;
It has had to increase might,
Somehow,the heavy makes light
And lips loosen that were tight
Ba...
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Categories:
warding, conflict, god, religion, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Fish
...Dead fish on the dead fish counter;
surprised bulging aqueous eyes stare,
none of them belly-up
but spread on their sides in a pageant
of slippery colors.
Silver, red, rainbow streaked
and all ...
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Categories:
warding, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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