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Winnowing Poems - Poems about Winnowing


Winnowing Winds
No winds are winnowing enough To put a quill back in the hands of the dead poet Or confidence back in the trachea of the strangled speaker In me Because no words are as vile As no words at all Where they're wanted Sensitivity not sublime Nor careful when it comes by I feed no attention to the egocentric I don't sew my lips before...

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Categories: winnowing, lonely,
Form: Free verse
In the Cool Night Air
The bistred day has fallen still, A darkened mead hangs overhead; The hush within the evening chill Chants now the yore is gone to bed. A gently breeze steals from the west, Cool along the shadowed lanes; The sunburned broil, now at rest, Its warmth has gone, though still remains. The cool night air stands all alone Anon the past is gone to...

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Categories: winnowing, imagery, inspirational, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme



Lamet
Lamet! is what she hears first him, screaming her second name as he descends upon her no time to process gravity a thud, tearing her core to shavings Maiweeeee! She is puzzled. His baritone dropping the 'n' agitation a wooden scrabble. Nothing is left between her and Pee, not a grain all’s crushed smothering their screams interlocking their groans. He is a pawn, no saphead giving it to her, a pounding her splinters putting...

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Categories: winnowing, africa, allegory, pain, word
Form: Free verse
The Winnowing Or
THE WINNOWING Wake of harvest, came time for winnowing Separation loosing chaff from the grain Bake of bread that gave them a bestowing Creation: body nurture that they’d fain Make in life, a time for spirit growing Valuation of virtues not to strain Then we might cherish food for soul above When we winnow, retain the grain of love...

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Categories: winnowing, life,
Form: Ottava rima
Winnowing
I don't care how they read as long as there's a grain of truth with the sand someone will winnow it out....

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Categories: winnowing, life,
Form: Free verse




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