The Pier Can't Always Keep You Where It Wants You To Be
...You stand with your suitcase like a buoy,
bright, bobbing in the shallows,
and I am the pier—
rooted, barnacled, smelling of old salt and rope.
You tell me you’ll stay
if I keep my hands wrapp...
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Categories:
windless, desire, fish, i miss
Form: Free verse
When The Child Cried Out
...In the early Winter morn, in the Seargent's footsteps,
They followed on the burned, barren earth,
A place so strange, but so familiar, he looked around,
A sign lies, on the naked land, "St. Geor...
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Categories:
windless, life, loneliness, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Candle
...There he was still as a windless night,
As if adorned in the drapes of the stormy sky,
His shield covering the faintest shimmer's plight.
The candle held on to its whispering glow,
On the shore...
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Categories:
windless, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Good Sense Of Humour Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality
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Written: July 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Natasha L Scragg
Quote: "Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. The core o...
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Categories:
windless, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Norwegian Island
...We arrived beneath the Arctic night,
where shadows speak and snow forgets.
The hour was late — the sky, without stars —
and silence held its breath.
They led us down through frozen stone,
wher...
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Categories:
windless, abuse, africa, bullying, crazy,
Form: Free verse
The Dry Tear
...The sandman moved to the corner as I eyed him. The pain creased, and sheared my attention. Pain would shoot blanks at my head. Running would only excite the strange feeling of being followed but not ...
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Categories:
windless, courage,
Form: Free verse
It Snows in Spring, Again Sometimes
...I lit a candle on a still windless night,
yet still the flame snuffed out of sight.
I spoke your name into this quaff of breeze.
It answered back with sounds of fallen leaves.
Sometimes
It Sn...
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Categories:
windless, introspection, lost love, spring,
Form: Free verse
Let me in my odd orbit drift - 2
...A fresh breeze that loves to drape all around,
And give hearty embrace to every heart,
A bird forever of drifting orbit,
Ready, lifelong and more to meander.
I drift, to drift is my inane na...
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Categories:
windless, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
That is why
...I have the wings, but there’s no sky, that’s why,
Feathers fall if I fail to fly, that’s why.
Will’s there, there’s wish, but not much can be done,
Kites idle lie in windless sky, that’s why.
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Categories:
windless, flying, sky,
Form: Ghazal
Stirred by Grace
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Prayers spoken by faith
Sing hope to the stars and moon
Blessing away life’s sorrows
Stirring the sun to scatter its proof
That wherever abides this presence
Of the love He is….
There is ...
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Categories:
windless, appreciation, forgiveness, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Descent and Ascent
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Line of inquiry:
“on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross”
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Categories:
windless, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
Call for Corn Awe
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I wanted to make something drawn from bosom
You & I gemini'd,
From the wells extract'd virginity untouch'd
by compounds—
Forgot to send it out, forgot to hit send,
Hello,...
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Categories:
windless, addiction, allah, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Creek-ing
...The muddy water creek-ing along pines
meandering, windless scene
absurd, acerbic, honed.
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Categories:
windless, storm,
Form: Kimo
September mood
...September evening.
late September, the eve
is hot and windless
to warm for walking
as darkness descends
dust on pavements and
fallen leaves bear witness
to nature's tiredness
the local sho...
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Categories:
windless, absence, angst, anxiety, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse
Or Windbag
...The windbag fiddler
felt windless and
bent idling nigh
some trees.
It was after a time
had spent that
he heard an
amazing
sound.
A frog was propped
half-way upon his
fiddle strummed
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Categories:
windless, analogy,
Form: Verse
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