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Silver EagleThe eagle has grace and flair as She soars up in the clouds
Up and above them clouds she climbs as she eyes a quarry
Strong in her wing as effortless she spreads the swift is she
A...
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Categories:
analogy, animal, appreciation, extended
Form: Blank verse
world war 3World War 3
When war again breaks out in Europe
and the culture that was, is a smokestack
that drifts in foul air
Not that art matters, if any survives, they
will be busy finding food and shelter
the winter will...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
out of timeOut of time
I wanted to be on the gloom outside time
puncture a hole in physical, crawled through
Was met with grey stillness
a sewer of spent time
Also, the time that happened, yet
Also, layers of dead time
a place...
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Categories:
absence, angst, blue,
Form: Blank verse
no bombs hereNo bombs here
I walked ashore in Nagasaki
traces of the bomb had gone
the dead buried
the maimed packed away
no one wanted to talk about
the bomb
Nagasaki had many shops
I bought a kimono made of silk
the beautiful shop assistant
didn't...
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Categories:
absence, adventure, analogy,
Form: Blank verse
Is This Ample Enoughnone of the McCormicks knew which insect had made the crying sounds
odd since usually every McCormick is an expert about thirty-nine things
I know because my mother and her sixty-two sisters are all McCormicks
Some of the...
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Categories:
family,
Form: Blank verse
Waves of Summer
" over the waters blue the night
winds sigh, the breakers roar--
Lord Byron
When wavelets curl along the pier
To cast a light in shades of teal,
I then recall a summer bold
Which wrote about our truth, ...
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Categories:
sea,
Form: Blank verse
Waves of Summer
" over the waters blue the night winds
sigh, the breakers roar--
Lord Byron
When wavelets curl along the pier
To cast a light in shades of teal,
I then recall a summer bold
Which wrote about our truth, ...
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Categories:
memory, sea,
Form: Blank verse
Always On My MindSince the time that we first met,
and you smiled at my attempt
to ask you for a slow dance;
you were always on my mind.
When I saw you with your friends
or in the hallways at school
I could...
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Categories:
age, angst, death, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Wings of charmI spied a beutiful swan
Graciously tantalizing
A cure to mine senses
Returng to me Lewis
That warming feeling
Of being in love again
Not once do I doubt
That ultimately Swan
You will rest in my bed
The one thats so cozy...
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Categories:
allusion, black love, cute
Form: Blank verse
when the lights dimWhen the light dims
The man in the lunch café drank 3 tall glasses of wine
he spoke loudly trying to draw attention to himself
not that I'm an expert, but he was, clearly divorced and
on holiday on...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, write,
Form: Blank verse
UNTITLEDSo let me reintroduce myself as the poetic samurai as I cut through the tragic of life
As humanity embraces it's inner beast ,
And we became monsters of our own making
What you see is...
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Categories:
anger,
Form: Blank verse
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He came from a family of strict Muslims
in the Arab continent, his mother never ventured
out of the house without her Burqa
His father had a long beard and dressed traditionally
and wore a Jambiya stuck in his...
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Categories:
absence, age, anger, august,
Form: Blank verse
The Empty RoomEmptiness.
I have been here before.
Nothing looks new.
Nothing looks old.
Nothing seems to be added.
Nothing seems to be missing.
It still looked the same as I had left it.
Empty Nest.
I have been hereafter.
Something looks new.
Something looks old.
Something...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
the long sleepthe long sleep
We got up late that morning
bills all bills paid
it was autumn, a morning and cold
righteous and smug under the duvet
I have 500 photos taken of threes
young trees, mature trees
and pale, dead trees,...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, adventure, age,
Form: Blank verse
The Stranger's Course“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
- Bible, Exodus 2:22
This land doesn’t...
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Categories:
bible, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse
Specific Types of Blank Verse Poems
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