Extinct Eden
...The skyline wheezes through gauze-thick breath,
its lungs ossified in scaffolded sighs,
where children etch constellations on smog,
and pigeons strut in soot-stained pride.
Dark as coal, and qu...
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Categories:
wheezes, allegory, city,
Form: Free verse
Death Bids Me Welcome
...Death bids me welcome
Into his tended garden
Where quiet plots of bramble clots
House names now long forgotten.
Engravings faded, darkened serifs
Tower over brighter plaques
Sooted over gen...
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Categories:
wheezes, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Snippets of Spring vol 3
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Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…strewn..rocks hewn embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly ic...
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Categories:
wheezes, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
...Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hus...
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Categories:
wheezes, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
A breathless house wheezes
...Contest: Breathless
Sponsor: Constance La France
Written: 24/05/2025
Quote "To breathe is to live, and without breath, there is no life." — Lailah Gifty Akita
A breathless house wheezes
Wi...
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Categories:
wheezes, life,
Form: Free verse
I Can't Make You Feel It, Whatever It Is
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I could hand you the bottle,
tip it slow, let the cheap red river
burn down your throat—
but I can't make you feel it.
I could drop you in a dim-lit room,
where the fan wobbles and the radio...
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Categories:
wheezes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fireworks
...With booms and wheezes
The fireflies it teases
With sizzles and cracks
We remember our anger of tax
With smoke and lights
We remember our rights
Children scream with fear and joy
This is gre...
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Categories:
wheezes, america, celebration, patriotic,
Form: Lyric
Splendor Of Nature
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The brook murmurs as it flows on the plateau,
across the draping emerald forest spread out opulent,
splashes on the curved contours of the lowland
as flicking cascade of the s...
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Categories:
wheezes, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
What Is Love?
... Is it the cinders of hope?
Is it the life which wheezes unfailingly?
Is it the enduring ,crimso...
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Categories:
wheezes, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
Nicholas, My Clever Grandson
...The joy of birth, the growing up,
leads us to adore our lovely babies.
But not, alas, without the toils of life.
Because we experience a lack of sleep,
contend with baby vomit,
or idiotically pu...
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Categories:
wheezes, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Winter Bugs - Now a Collaboration
...Lin, sorry to hear, as I am sick too
But I know it's not covid or the flu
Been blowing my raw nose
Sneezing still comes and goes
Maybe this cold needs a brandy or two
Written by Tania Kitchin
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Categories:
wheezes, care, health, sick,
Form: Limerick
Dreams In Plaid
...He dreams in electric themes
draping around the armchairs
he wheezes down time
Across feral fields his eyes skims
the scenery
His shadow silhouetted by the evening sun
aware of the amolaly
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Categories:
wheezes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Home of Three Diseases
...A body housing three diseases
With three more as the visiting ones:
Enjoy he does just brief releases,
On some days obliged to laugh but once...
A rough fate acting as it pleases;
Each time he...
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Categories:
wheezes, courage, cry, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboying Along
...It's been a long ride;
beneath me a phantom horse wheezes
its lungs blown.
I chose a slow death
not some youthful suicide.
Illness and a life
misused
took its pound of flesh,
the surgeons k...
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Categories:
wheezes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Like Diabetes
...Nothing like Diabetes!
Roger has been quite at ease:
A Devoted Yam Planter,
Who stops to drink Sweet Fanta,
To Raw Energy increase
And Fine Harvest not decrease…
Fairy Tale Diabetes!
Roger’...
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Categories:
wheezes, child, courage, drink, health,
Form: Rhyme
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