Paradise
...I longed for it like other men;
I sought some sages, now and then.
They did somehow enlighten me,
But still I did not find the key.
I tried to search in all the books--
In mountains, dales, ...
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Categories:
weatherworn, 9th grade, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Raging Storm
...Waves pummeled her bow, causing the schooner to rock
as a tempest wind heaved its feral breath into her sails.
The crewmen were steadfast, but had the right to balk
at warring against the strength...
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Categories:
weatherworn, storm,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Memories Iii: Tapestries Ii of Iii
...A strike of a match would briefly carve
His weatherworn features
From the darkness full of his words
Echoes from history of an exorbitant life
A face full of history and mystery
That still lin...
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Categories:
weatherworn, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
In the Eye of the Beholder
..."Crumbling is not an instant act..."
Emily Dickinson
Why do we find old buildings beautiful,
books, whose pages are crumbling to dust;
weatherworn wooden doors once dutif...
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Categories:
weatherworn, allusion, beautiful, conflict, life,
Form: Sonnet
Decaying Headstone
...
Mossy vines camouflage decaying headstone
Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair
Foliage ever swallow so it cowers
Deeply weatherworn lettering embraced there
Threads of pier...
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Categories:
weatherworn, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Mine Mortal Flesh Can Finally Escape
...Mine mortal flesh can finally escape...
Though mentally, physically,
and spiritually healthy... meth
hood dolled logy
hoop fully, ideally, joyfully...
unannounced twill be mine death
without...
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Categories:
weatherworn, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Full Flight of a Drifter
...Deep at heart Tim is a dreamer and longs for 'that' dream
And still and in certain arrest he is a child of gone times
His parents Hans and Ida had told him in misleading terms
‘You...
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Categories:
weatherworn, freedom,
Form: Free verse
As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
...He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking...
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Categories:
weatherworn, age, appreciation, grief, remember,
Form: Free verse
Hidden and Fallen In Disrepair
...Mossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone
No family members left to maintain is known
Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair
Deeply weatherworn and embraced there
This marker sets ...
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Categories:
weatherworn, death, family, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten
...Dame’s Rockets grow atop her grave:
Pinks, whites and purples flourish here
in this cemetery enclave
where no one has visit in years.
Her oblique, weatherworn headstone
stands aside a ne...
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Categories:
weatherworn, death, nature,
Form: Verse
Only Two Rode Home
...Three Aussie cowboys set out one morn
With old rugged faces weatherworn
As they made their way through the Outback
A croc sat watch, prepared to attack
When riders neared his nest by the stream...
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Categories:
weatherworn, cowboy-western, old, old,
Form: Couplet