The Storm King
...The Storm uttered his vengeful voice
Breathing threats on all mortals below.
With power he showed his flashing bolts
And shook the earth with his mighty hands.
The trees cried loudly as they...
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Categories:
withal, life, rain, storm,
Form: Blank verse
Bloodlust with'n Perversion
...With present great, O’ gracious hate
O’ hand in heart, neither tripp’d nor fear’d
Doth thine conquer, by thine of corrup’d lips
O’ Sicker thy pour’d thine sicken canst
Thy chanc’d on seated hear...
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Categories:
withal, allusion, children, dream, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Pilfered Peck
...Peter Piper was ever punctilious, like minty nature's painstaking paintings,
Or the palsied skies of one pretty evening, in the hour of the sun's fainting.
Peter lived upon a small, ferti...
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Categories:
withal, color, fantasy, farm, food,
Form: Couplet
Dandelions
...Remember summer in your blossom's weave,
Betwixt them memories of warmer days.
As you but dance yet with the summer breeze
And love untimidly beneath sun's gaze.
And revel yet awash in youthful...
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Categories:
withal, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
...Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
Ever since a young lad
irritable bowel syndrome
in my humble pinion wracked
lower abdominal area
gurgled and ballooned gastrointes...
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Categories:
withal, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Rise and Fall
...Criminal
waste,
critical mass
materialized warfare
city dumps pile-up and fall
burnt offerings amid
clumps of Caesar salad.
Roman Empires of crud
that roam no more.
Walmart still spills ov...
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Categories:
withal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Found Fond Spiritual Love-
...Converged
Felt an instant connection
You, I, we recognize each other's souls.
Love for each other is unconditional.
A found fond spiritual love
Attunement eye contact so intense
I...
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Categories:
withal, analogy, appreciation, irony, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
He's Relentless-
...my Lord middle name HE'S Relentless
give me solace in your breath
speak of mercies I've confessed
give me Grace
upon my face
let me be witnessed
of your Amazing Grace
stat...
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Categories:
withal, appreciation, beautiful, endurance, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
The Fear
...We absorb the pleasures as we ignore the post.
The frenzied time,
a placid mind,
of which is worst.
Rotten truths reek right as lies,
as death, as dead, decayed effect.
How now the freshnes...
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Categories:
withal, art, fear,
Form: Epic
Plagued With Lifelong Lower Gastrointestinal Sturm Und Drang
...Germane generic geeky guy
five sixths enroute
to complete lxiv luxurious Earth orbits
experienced chronic, demonic,
physiologically hegemonic...
irritable bowel syndrome
without shadow of a do...
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Categories:
withal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cruise To Alaska Ii
...Cold and icy passageway to trudge through.
Ships and warships sailed thru the Bering Strait.
In limbo 'tween two nations, iced, staid too.
When I first set out, for thrill I await.
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Categories:
withal, analogy, appreciation, beauty, travel,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
17 Sweet Briar Road - Port of Spain
...Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
inside the gates of Sweet Briar Road
Long it behoves me my thanksgiving
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Categories:
withal, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Pickings
...When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,...
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Categories:
withal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Your Gift - 2
...Use your gift to give back to the One who created us all, loved our hearts and assured us of hope – quote by poet
We all, each one, have a gift to share
A gift from heaven, fro...
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Categories:
withal, blessing, faith, giving, god,
Form: Rhyme
Written in a Graveyard
...O’ God, I fear no peace, no life’s atone,
only silent condemnation disguised -
this misfortune is mine and mine alone
and to that end I have philosophised.
To the wider picture of death a...
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Categories:
withal, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet
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