Manifesto
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Written: December 27, 2024 For Contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
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At dawn of a place cocooned once in avarice
silver-haired sav...
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Categories:
whilom, america, angst, health,
Form: Free verse
Celestial Jellyfish
...A giant jellyfish was born
emitted from a neutron star
once on a whilom cosmic morn
amidst the stellar seas afar.
With tentacles from arcing crest,
medusa-like it hangs on high
cloudscaped wi...
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Categories:
whilom, animal, earth, humanity, nature,
Form: Verse
O Beau Papillon
... o beau papillon
~ o beautiful butterfly,
Have you whilom explored the inselberg,
To descry its allure,
And its rillets surge,
To see the coruscating sun,
And ...
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Categories:
whilom, adventure, butterfly, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Unconquerable
...midst the bosom of a once bountiful farm
lies the graveyard of my ancestors~
the gush of tears that flowed here- only the wind knows;
the willows by the brooks~ are barely there,
and those who su...
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Categories:
whilom, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Reserata Carcerem Xlvii
...*Reserata Carcerem XLVII*
Whilom, sate taunted tortoise b' brook;
hoist'd hunger 'n haughty hoofs trod th' nooks
smothered stomach wrought foiled furrow -
sumptuous severity 'n grace glowed.
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Categories:
whilom, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Denouement
...Inamorato,
Ascultate my vociferation!
Contravene your sepulcher.
Insurrect our omnipotent.
I enjoin thine quintessence.
Eupnea!
Eupnea!
Whilom anon.
Euphoria salvo.
Eschewal Valhalla's porti...
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Categories:
whilom, death, depression, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
Fotw
...There he is again/searching...
for me - the object of his disdain/
his bete noire
Looking at him through the facets of my vision...
- He is a hulking one of them
The ones who seek to cut off...
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Categories:
whilom, color, dark, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
M-Theory Musings
...What theory unifies forces, weak, strong,
With gravity— also, to which belong
All the string theories of why and because?
To answer these queries, M-theory does.
Proponents aver it offers clari...
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Categories:
whilom, creation, deep, muse, sky,
Form: Rhyme
My Expiration 2k11
...Mine eyes shall come benighted - Sunshine gone;
Winded upon final stretch of marathone.
Whilom self - A Brother - Cousin - Friend,
Writer - Son; An earthly throb dealt its end.
Fated ...
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Categories:
whilom, death, loss, cousin,
Form: Couplet
The Broken Man 2k10
...O spectators come not one,
come not all.
For alcohol drown out his
faintest of calls.
No safty nets pamper his
falls.
Behind the scenes 'tis no act,
though fact.
Not seen, t...
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Categories:
whilom, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Matutinality
...What'll I Write... he
Muses, surveilles the nil
Wind, windowy visage,
& gateswayed key-pad,
like a cyber abacus
to touch & stroke, counted-
on to reveal it's
whilom Mysterlex, vener-
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Categories:
whilom, computer-internet, imagination, introspection, lost
Form: Alliteration