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Whetted Poems - Poems about Whetted

Premium Member Emotional Shrapnel
...Lurid looks have been thrown at me Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart Why do some insist on acting beastly waging war in attempts to tear me apart? How long can I go on pretending I'm not in......

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Categories: whetted, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar.. Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled. Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja......

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Categories: whetted, culture,
Form: Free verse



Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch
...Beowulf Excerpts anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes whose clan-than......

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Categories: whetted, courage, dream, heart, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my ego wants me dead in ireland
...Tires rang against the road in my eyes The grinding of whetted knives Tinnitus rings in my teeth Threats are thought, silently Back sores scream and swamp Ass creeps through the carseat In th......

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Categories: whetted, appreciation, environment, ireland, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Shadowed Place
... My heart lay barely beating, drowning in a marinade of salted tears that fell from my reddened eyes. Blood dripped down my chin from biting my swollen lips as if they were wounded like a heart p......

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Categories: whetted, confusion, fear,
Form: Free verse



The Great Names
...This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by raging, torrential, opened senses; To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces. Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that swallows ......

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Categories: whetted, birth, creation, earth, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guillotine
...I heard screams from those marked for a guillotine death No compromises for their cries before taking a last breath Words of repentance for dastardly crimes were bemoaned Begging for mercy with fe......

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Categories: whetted, death, murder,
Form: Personification
Dancing of Earth
...When spring arrives, A group of flowers enjoy Their countenance and As the day grows older They lose their incandescent looks. If they could know the collapse Before the begetting, I hope they......

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Categories: whetted, allusion, creation, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse
Surgeons of Sky
...Just testing the night The surgeons of sky to see a Sky-net so faulted and frank unflinching but still true Full of expectation and hope...Just touching the night feeling the texture of it ......

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Categories: whetted, destiny, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Independence
...To Ukraine ~Arise in arms from ‘neath oppression’s boot, confront the face of arbitrary whim. Resist as one to quell the scarlet brute and neutralize the threat of florid prim. Let tyran......

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Categories: whetted, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet
A Language Without Words
...I. they say there exist languages without words without syllables yet pronounced, like the sharp clatter of fork and spoon and knife against each other at dinners in our family. a vase shatte......

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Categories: whetted, family, grandmother, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom
...~ Contention grows beyond its mortal vail to rail against suppression none condone, for tyranny imposed shall not prevail when liberty is paid in flesh and bone. Let not the price deter the bo......

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Categories: whetted, freedom, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Chef Bourdain
...Chef Bourdain 1956-2018 Surf and turf, a sardine in tin; will travel. Your downward spiral Magnanimity that whetted our appetite Fans everywhere you excite. Consumed the exotic and co......

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Categories: whetted, celebrity, dedication, suicide,
Form: Elegy
A Poet Views, Critic Reviews
...Fragrance of words I’m, who are you? Romance of lines brought in from blue, Make words dance in rhythm, Cut out noise in freedom, A poet asked: so, what’s your view? I wield a sword vibr......

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Categories: whetted, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dazzling Display of Sweetness
...I'm fazed by your stunning, teeth exaltedness It's sumptuous when you show your sublimeness. You turned that rose branch like a rosebud softness. Betting finely on one's heart'......

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Categories: whetted, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Monorhyme

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