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August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories: woodbine, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Auld Kirk Yard

...Seven beautiful lines contest, 
Sponsor Constance La France
Posted 21/3/25 

Through the auld Kirk gate in the churchyard wall 
The rough green field where my ancestors lie
Woo...
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Categories: woodbine, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme Royal



Rosh Hashshana 2023

...Rosh Hashshana 2023

Began at sunset 
on Friday, Sept. 15, 
and ends at sunset 
on Sunday, Sept. 17.

No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself 
fascinated with my Semitic ancestr...
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Categories: woodbine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Rosh Hashshana 2022

...No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself fascinated with my ancestry
x cited regarding: upcoming
Jewish holiday fast approaching 
by the bewitching hour which doth hold key
to Chambe...
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Categories: woodbine, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSeeking Violets

...timid violet
safe under green canopy
organic beauty
woodbine and bramble haven
hedgerow of many secrets







Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
Chosen form: Tanka
chosen flower V...
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Categories: woodbine, nature,
Form: Tanka



August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since

...August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...

Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason: 
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who co...
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Categories: woodbine, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStroke-A-Back

...“Stroke-a-back
stroke-a-back
someone’s going to touch you
in a moment from now,
I’ll draw the snake
but I won’t end it.”   
                                                   
The old gas ligh...
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Categories: woodbine, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNowhere In Sight

...On a grassy verge above the surging rill 
she stood fair haired and proud,
three leaf clover substrate at her toes.
Clutching saline bouquets I had plucked 
from my neighbours walk-in green house...
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Categories: woodbine, adventure, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Wicked Bad Designed Day

...(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one...
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Categories: woodbine, abuse, adventure, angst, good
Form: Free verse

Little Red

...It was a waxing, gibbous moon and Cassandra felt calm and at ease
as she stepped out that February night with frost upon the trees..
It was only a mile to grandmothers house, she'd walked it many t...
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Categories: woodbine, allegory, dark, emotions, evil,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberFlower of Antiquity

...Silken seas
pouring chromatic,
waxing floral
in scented bliss;
ecstasy of 
godly kiss
is jubilation,
they reminisce.

Woodbine entwined,
elegance refined;
eternal hearts
enrapt...
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Categories: woodbine, appreciation, flower, memorial, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Robert Burns Translation: Banks O' Doon

...Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I...
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Categories: woodbine, bird, love, river, romance,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberAs My Distance Grows

...As the Death diameter distance grows this life pre pronounced decifers its 
               knows and forms poignant figures into neat narrow rows,                               
present now formats...
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Categories: woodbine, allusion, analogy, marriage, society,
Form: Free verse

Robert Burns Translations

...A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
that's newly sprung in June
and my love is like the melody
t...
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Categories: woodbine, red, river, romance, romantic,
Form: Verse

The Night Rabbie Visited Me

...THE NIGHT THAT RABBIE VISITED ME
One night in spring  I couldn't sleep      I heard knocking on  the door
I got out of bed, walked to the window to have  a peep ..what I saw made me gasp, and nearl...
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Categories: woodbine, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry

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