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Whetstone Poems - Poems about Whetstone

Premium MemberThe Axe Grinder

...He hones his purpose on a stone whet of spite,
Edge kissed to gleam in the dead of night.
Relentless is the echo tuned to hindsight.
Endless in the knowing his cause is right.

His grip is firm,...
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Categories: whetstone, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Power of Love

...There is no denying the power of love.
It is a splendid teacher
Quite adept at instructing us
In ways that completely alter our character,
And telling us how to be what we never were,
Or never e...
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Categories: whetstone, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGrease on the Stone

...I was more of a step stone than a stepson
a tiny stone leading to the heart of my father.

You played the game well... though
squeezing a ring from the coal of his lonely heart.

So, there I wa...
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Categories: whetstone, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEvening solitude

...Evening solitude


The walk was cold and lonely,
Interesting, I don't know, but this feeling always awaits me,
I don't need anything here or anywhere else.


Nothing, the night is waiting, I'...
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Categories: whetstone, death, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Come post presidential election 2024

...Come post presidential election 2024... 

heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality, 
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dis...
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Categories: whetstone, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Climbing Vines

...The paring knife of winter
undams the dense brown
blood. Asps awaken and seethe—.

Twining stems sweat,
Irregular coralla dance
around your feet, pray at your altar.

Children of the soil, me...
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Categories: whetstone, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn Beyond Doubt

...A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on a g...
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Categories: whetstone, autumn, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberUnwritten

..."If you cannot glean my poetry I will explain, but do not ask 
me to reveal what I've left unwritten between my lines."      
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Categories: whetstone, passion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The Eyes Have It

...The Eyes Have It

Eyes sharpened at the whetstone
Honed to a glistening edge,
They used them to slice and dice for

Homeworks forgotten;
Rooms left in cyclonic disarray;
Reports unfiled;
Pre...
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Categories: whetstone, evil,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSnubs To Nubs

...Work, work, work ... write, write, write
          Pour your dark, deep, love-scarred being out
               Put all the imagery, phrasing and thought you know into each line
     Craft each...
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Categories: whetstone, confidence, dedication, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Free verse

Armed and Dangerous

...My thoughts are my weapons,
  my pen is my sword

My will is my whetstone,
  my Knighthood
    —my Lord

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2014)...
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Categories: whetstone, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMillstone

...At the heart of the gristmill in common 
is the millstone: 
A matched pair of matched round stones, one over the other.
Below is a bed-stone base, abeyant and prone
Above is the runner whetstone,...
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Categories: whetstone, life, work,
Form: Free verse

Woodbury New Jersey Whetstone One

...Woodbury, new jersey home 
   to me self since birth
my very late mother 
   (bless her long departed soul)

   slaved and toiled 
   per accursed penury and dearth
tried her darnedest 
   to...
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Categories: whetstone, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Woodbury New Jersey Whetstone 2

...brings world word ii gunnery duty 
   as extremely frightful flashback
   which utterly displeases this elderly mortal 
   and such behavior moi aback!
 
Born in this same house 
   on Leona av...
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Categories: whetstone, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

And Let Us Now Silence That Intrusive Music So Ominous, So Banal, So Tinny and So Slight

...As rains and the torrentialest of snows plummet, 
Filling all the skies and the area interstitial to earth and sky 
With a frenzy of flying flakes;
As gusty winds doth blow and toss the flakes thi...
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Categories: whetstone, absence, age, america, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

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