Archive for Form
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NOCTURNAL SONNET, MID-WINTER • by Charles W. Kiley III
5 Comments
Even the stars will burn with cold tonight, In deepest January’s frigid throes. They cast a searing January light, That blossoms like an alabaster rose. And whisper also down across the skies: An astral susurration sweeping low. As swiftly as it comes, it swiftly dies: A star-tossed wind, an interstellar sough. How fortunate I am [...]
Literary, Poems, Sonnet
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VISITATION • by Charles W. Kiley III 2 Comments
I feel the life-wine thrumming through the skin. The neck is thin, though thicker than the face- her face-the flesh-diaphanously thin. At touch of tooth, the pulse begins to race; the scent of life is seeping from the vein. The gift of those whose lungs draw mortal breath is ours by right, by slender prick [...]
Literary, Sonnet
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UNTITLED • by Jack Byrne 9 Comments
on the chair a perfect circle the old cat Jack Byrne lives in Ireland, the Emerald Isle “the land of poets and scholars” He is 63 years young , married to Valerie oh …maybe 40 years we has 3 adult children all as gifted as he hopes to be. He loves poetry, photography [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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WHITE WINTERS • by Irena Pasvinter 11 Comments
I used to think that winter should be white, Its icy armor wrapped in snowy coat – The reign of cold in all its freezing might. When moonlit snowflakes glistened in the night And screeched beneath my boots on empty road, Of course I thought that winter should be white. It always came on time [...]
Literary, Poems, Villanelle
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HAIKU 3 • by Marion Clarke 13 Comments
last rash of snow a cobalt raven sidesteps . . . takes flight Marion Clarke is an artist and writer from Warrenpoint, on the shores of Carlingford Lough in Northern Ireland. She studied and worked in Belfast, France and, up until the year 2000, in England, where she wrote technical articles for the trade press. [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 15 Comments
jam making sealed in a jar summer garden Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Jennifer Stakes 11 Comments
tiny, seventeen syllables – nurtured, he’ll bloom into an epic Jennifer Stakes is British but now lives in Washington DC where she writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. She has managed to find some decent tea but misses Jaffa Cakes.
Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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AMATEUR ASTRONOMY • by CG Olsen 8 Comments
I want to buy a telescope to see the stars, the galaxies and nebulae, alone, aloof and unconcerned with high and low, with yes and no and in-between, just sitting deep, significant or not, in saurian spaces, glowing dinosaurs of fairy-land who romp upon the floors of heaven, timeless motion. Not like clots of dirty [...]
Literary, Poems, Sonnet
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BE STILL (PANTOUM) • by CDSinex 21 Comments
We watch the day fade slowly into night in silence standing by this open gate. Afraid, as if to speak would chase the light. I have to go; you know it's getting late. In silence standing by this open gate your head pressed ever softly on my chest. I have to go; you know it's [...]
Pantoum, Poems
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“CHICKS WITH STICKS” • by Jennifer Pitzer 6 Comments
It's four o'clock on Wednesday, Our scheduled time. Every week since May We commit an ugly crime. I pull on my leather glove And it fits just right. Then I choose the biggest love To demonstrate my might. I position myself in the center, Holding the shaft Firmly but tender – Polishing my craft. I [...]
Humour/Satire, Poems, Sonnet
