Growing Pains
...Had to fall out of love for thee
in order to bear the pain
of thy being
Turned away drooping ears
to lessen the sound
of thou troubled cries
Drained are nigh of mine eyes
to not share in...
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Categories:
weirs, dark, fate, journey, self,
Form: Bio
Ghost of Tsali Comes
...Ghost Of Tsali Comes
Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs
Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes
Corn roots cling to bone
As h...
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Categories:
weirs, animal, autumn, environment,
Form: Free verse
Water Sculptor
...Water Sculptor
Life stretches into abundant sheaths swelling with water,
Living breath of the selfless servant cascades through veins
Drawn into waterways of stalks and roots
Reaching – climbi...
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Categories:
weirs, life, nature, water,
Form: Free verse
Dust Had Gathered
...dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps
had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations
the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stic...
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Categories:
weirs, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost of John
...He hung there, a sobering sight,
like the full moon on a misty night.
John Riox, smothered in slime,
ghastly ghost adrift in time.
He wrestles ropes of rubbery kelp,
his sunken eyes plead...
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Categories:
weirs, death, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The Dragon of Dark Harbor
...There is a harbor, dark and still,
That formed ten thousand years ago.
It lies upon the western sill
Of Grand Manan, in indigo.
Seagulls soar above the cliffs.
Puffins nest on jagged rock...
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Categories:
weirs, fantasy, nature, ocean, ,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...'I left my dreams in the sand...
On a beach, named Weirs
With a plight of distaste...
...and, one more demon for each freckle on Her face'
The smoke cleared between my eyes
I wrestled with eac...
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Categories:
weirs, allegory, allusion, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Suppress Servile Stress
...I rue chances missed and days spent
Prevaricating whether to break the ice
Hold back, keep a low profile with my back bent
In a vow to sprinkle no more spice
In moves and grooves meant to cosse...
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Categories:
weirs, poems,
Form: Free verse
Rackets of Lies and Rockets of Truth
...Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and perish
Cruise to groove in truth and prune...
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Categories:
weirs, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Red Rose, Red Love
...O my Love's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Love's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve...
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Categories:
weirs, 12th grade,
Form: Imagism
Of Unknown Origin
...Nylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not talking c...
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Categories:
weirs, beach, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Short
...I left my heart in the sand...
On a beach, named Weirs
With a plight of distaste
And, a demon for every freckle on Her face......
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Categories:
weirs, beauty, girl, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Building Castles In the Sky
...Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach Or What Is in A Name
When building Babylonian Towers with the Lego of our minds we construct
our world and worlds our truths and meanings our dream...
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Categories:
weirs, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
The Shopping Cart Injustice
...This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the bui...
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Categories:
weirs, environment, history,
Form: Free verse
Correctional Distillation
...Millipede. Multitude. Millionaire damson. When elevation is caused by an unauthorized z code a b could be an m an an m could be a t or an a so please do not throw coats into the weirs. Especially in ...
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Categories:
weirs, art, assonance,
Form: I do not know?
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