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Category Archives: poetry
The Poet’s Trap
I must avoid becoming a cliché poet. Not just the use of cliché phrases Do I fear But a cliché mode Cliché thought Cliché meaning that has ever been meaned In a thousand different wrappers, Recognizably, uniformly unlike. To use the ‘in’ style Is saying “I need the praise of poets Who despise me. My [...]
“And Ye Would Not!”
I “So, what now?” he asked Deep worry on his royal brow. “We attack,” his man replied. “We make swords out of our plows.” The king’s weary eyes lost their gleam. “Do you â” he stuttered. “Do you know what this means?” If they had really known The wretched treefall of their deeds Those bitter [...]
By Very Small Means
A drip, a drop, Percolate, plop, Pooling, puddling, Flowing, flooding, Torrent tearing, Eroding, wearing, Gully grinding, Chasm winding, Until is seen from outer space A Grand Canyon on the planet’s face. And so this thought: It happened drop by drop.1 Notes As seen on The Curiously Poetic Altoids!
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But I Do
With words, sweet words — the currency of the day — He tells how you’ve won his heart. Giving roses, dozen roses — Earth’s love letters loaned — He says he’ll always, ever be true. And maybe, By the swoons, the gasps, the thrills, It’s justified. The symbols are so sweet because of What they [...]
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What Will Become?