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Oaken Poems - Poems about Oaken

Premium Member The Dream-Cast Realm
...Asclepius, one cannot build from sand, Such light and shifting grains as mortals be. The wind and tide shall warp what e’er is planned, Foundations fade before the pounding sea. And yet, when gra......

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Categories: oaken, allegory, dream, myth, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Design
...vast wonder-scape expanse variegated flora silent joy confetti heat-swirl rise oaken nesting suites sprinkled seedlings dispatched on cue ......

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Categories: oaken, beautiful, earth,
Form: Free verse



Bed rotting’s not quite the right term this time
...Found myself doing my damndest to sleep through the day again. Wake up, pull the wool over my eyes, block out the world, repeat. Certainly not a positive omen (what with Halloween and November 9th)......

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Categories: oaken, dark, depression, hope, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a crow’s command
... I be a common salty once no captain's bars, did bear yet blessed was I to venture where few a skipper dared from crow's nest high aloft I saw those br......

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Categories: oaken, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curved Leaf
...Cursed by the autumn With a lost decorum Lies the shrunk oaken leaf As though full of grief Curled and furled Within winds of time whirled As though swirled and twirled Isn’t this a ruthless......

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Categories: oaken, creation, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fading Photographs
...Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops, drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains. Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind, as flakes of......

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Categories: oaken, bereavement, december, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Real Boy
...I walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale; Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being. Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall, Of which calcite chambers temper;......

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Categories: oaken, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse
To What Shall I Liken Thee?
...Shall I liken thee to a sunrise? Thou art the sunrise of a fall morning's glow. Thou art the oaken breeze that bids you "hello." Shall this describe to what I liken thee? No. Shall I liken thee......

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Categories: oaken, baby, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 3 of 6'
...III. Ecological Awareness In this fragile eggshell I will call life for security's a mirage I chase. Existence is a gamble I take a wild and desperate gamble......

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Categories: oaken, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spellcaster
...A cabin sees a creature cool from night of crawl and hunt in all of gravely stone and street in tone of light diffused by wane of moon a toothless gum with tutting tongue clicks her way like bats ......

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Categories: oaken, magic, moon, night, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The External World of The Internal
... “The External World of the Internal” when the Internal finally woke up, it was like all the words in that book, flew at It like flaming arrows, an external bar......

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Categories: oaken, humanity, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
An Atheist Shakes the Bishop's Hand
...The ring depicts a promise of fidelity. I smile as you stand in your cloak. That headgear is the symbol of the tongues of fire. I smile as you receive that formal mitre, while that pastoral staff......

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Categories: oaken, christian, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
NOT PLONK
...NOT PLONK A well-corked bottle lets nothing escape Subtle added tastes from an oaken cask I’ll sip and enjoy this fine cultured grape Is a well-rounded body too much to ask A label removed w......

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Categories: oaken, appreciation, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Strong Force
...I was an illustrious, nuclear physicist, and I was studying the strong force, Holding together building blocks of all atoms, as stars hold to their course. That force joins roaming quarks, which ......

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Categories: oaken, beauty, fantasy, flower, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member collective nouns: ten front teeth are seven thebes every day of the week
... homelands / husbands / playing house / strands & strings of horses behind strangers lounging un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective ......

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Categories: oaken, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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