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Category: Metrical
Home Archive for category "Metrical" (Page 2)

Category: Metrical

Legend / Metrical / Narrative / Rhyme
Soul Fires

Soul Fires

The god of thunder pierced the clouds with his electric riff. Prometheus though chained, unbowed, saw lightning strike the cliff …

 #Arthur Gee #eagle #fire #Greek mythology #Prometheus #Zeus
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Death / Humor / Legend / Metrical / Rhyme
All in the Same Boat

All in the Same Boat

You’re late! Forgive me, just a little joke I use to put my passengers at ease. Or otherwise some newly …

 #Glen Scott #River Styx #satire
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. Peaceful / Love / Metrical / Rhyme
Warmth

Warmth

A baby rests his sweaty head against my rising chest. His gentle snoring melts all dread, the bass that leads …

 #baby #bonding #sleep
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. Mystical / Metrical
Liminal Space of Dawn

Liminal Space of Dawn

We watch the fading back of darkness edge / sway and feel the shrinking chill on flesh /which lies-or is it mouths?- in cooling air; / averse to moving from our rumpled bed.

 #aubade #blank verse sonnet #morning light #Nancy Sobanik
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Hope / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme
Resurrection

Resurrection

A field of grass, a sea of green / where flowers wild, like dabs of paint, / add vibrancy to Nature’s scene –

 #dandelion #Moira Cameron #resilience #strength in adversity
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. Nostalgic / Love / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme
Mama’s Walking Stick

Mama’s Walking Stick

Where wild abounds and nature calls / a trail winds through a gentle wood, / along a stream then to small falls, / where she met him, and love was good.

 #follow #Joy A. Burki-Watson #mother #trail
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Metrical / Mixed Form / Nature
To the Coming of Autumn in Ballina

To the Coming of Autumn in Ballina

The west wind blows the wet away and sings you in, soft Autumn. So, hum your Southern strains on murmured …

 #anticipation #Australia #autumn #Carl Heriot
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. Restless / . Solemn / Metrical
Church Bells Tolling

Church Bells Tolling

At every hour and more, from East and West And North and South and every in-between, From livid London’s every …

 #blank verse #death #plague #Sarah van der Pas
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