Risks
...RISKS
Scarred hills, risked mine shafts, dark and deep.
The plonk of a stone, dropped into water, far below.
Kids drifted to sounds of the gold-rush, pick and windlass.
But inside our school,...
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Categories:
windlass, 3rd grade, adventure, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Old Ship-Wright
...The Old Ship-Wright
I’ve held the stars in the palm of my hand
And ladled the sunrise where no man has been
I’ve forged my anchors from hellish fires
And planed fine teakwood that served th...
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Categories:
windlass, adventure
Form: Narrative
Nights' Enchantress
...Through a canopy of leaves
ascending ,
Night a visage of rippling ebony
her tears falling like raindrops
bedazzling the dark
Her arm a windlass
spiraling coils of silken mist
rolling , he...
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Categories:
windlass, fantasynight, dark, dark, night,
Form: Free verse
Windlass and Plunge
...Jumpers taste the air tonight
Black jelly fish ballooning into clouds and stars
Slick of lip and jeweled of eyes
breaking the wind with outspread fingers
Pushing gravity on their bellies
A thous...
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Categories:
windlass, adventure,
Form: Free verse