The 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
The 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
Grease 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
Evening 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
Autumn 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
Unwritten
..."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
Snubs 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
Millstone
...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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