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hesed

5 deviations
Literature

listening

suppliance sibilance succorance sustenance succulence sibilanace undulance sustenance utterance submergence undulance turbulence utterance transmittance unctuous turbulence succulence transmittance suppliance transcendence

pentelloum

15 deviations
Literature

prologue

murder's lost meaning; i've realized my potential... in this form. my evolution awaits. it is but my death away.

collaborations

20 deviations
Literature

Relationship - An Acrostic Haiku

Reach into your heart Engaged, I will marry you Let go of your life l a m Ask for permission Try not to fight anymore Ignore what she said n c o g n i t Ordinary night No, nothing lasts forever Seems so short, this life e l f i s Have you had enough? I feel it's time to move on Please. Don't call me back.

contest entries

14 deviations
Literature

Creatureless Me

Creatureless me Denied myself sweet happiness Creatureless me Shrouded in lonely mystery No salvation from distress No love or soul, no more, no less Creatureless me

rondel and rondel prime

3 deviations
Literature

Music of Ainur

Create and sing! Your mind has wings from Music wrought In an eye's blink to being brought in Timeless Hall What you can think to the last dot, that I will call to make a world                  The horse's trott, the fir-trees tall, the heat and cold                                        The creatures small, and big and bold                                                                    Just as I've told:                                                                                   Eä! Be!

diagonal

2 deviations
Literature

neighborhood watch-your-ass

pop-a-cap-cappity, 'dirty' george zimmerman were iced tea and skittles aimed at your head? self-preservational stories should go before a dozen or so peers when someone is dead.

double dactyl

2 deviations
Literature

DFC2013 3: Addiction

I can't stand your company so never leave me be. Hold me like a lover while I sleep alone tonight. I never want to see you except perhaps for always. I scream when I'm without you and I scream when you're within. And since you're always with me I'll always be alone. You know that I am soft; you know that I am stone.

parallelismus membrorum

4 deviations
Literature

SONGE NORDIQUE

Songe nordique.                             Pour Judith. Eau, calme Le froid Empalme L'effroi L'eau pâle Opale Empale L'orfroi. Un grand souffle Sur la mer S'emmitoufle Songe amer Une danse En cadence Se condense En enfer. De grandes ombres Couvrent l'azur Sous les décombres Un fjord obscur Dans son arène Cherche la reine Douce et sereine Au regard pur. Tombant sur la glace Un pleur de cristal Déchire l'espace Dur comme un métal Une épée cou

la marche

1 deviation

Why Form?

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism The history of poetry reminds me of standing knee-deep in the water at the beach. Though you are continually in the water, you are able to feel movement after movement, wave after wave rolling in. You can feel the receding water sucking the sand from beneath your feet, but with the coming of each new wave, you need never fear being sucked into the miry ground. So it is with poetry. There's something intrinsic to poetry—the joy of prosody, of the delightful placement of words, and of the novel communication of

editorials and essays on poetry

3 deviations
Literature

son't tutorial

the son't is a form i devised due to my love/hate relationship with traditional sonnets. it is basically a HIGHLY truncated version of a sonnet with a few bits of silliness thrown in to lighten up the mood. the rundown: the lines are 5 syllables long, containing two and a half iambs (one of you guys out there can supply me with the right name for this, i am sure), literally cutting the length of a sonnet line in half. there are only seven lines. the rhyme scheme runs A/B/A/C/B/C/A, but the last words in lines one and seven must be the same word. there must be at least ONE abbreviated or truncated word (feel free to go nuts, the more the

2013 challenges

1 deviation
Literature

Zacchaeus

A camel through the needle's eye: To shrink the beast, or open wide? Clamber on a sycamore high, Impossibilities inside.

pantun

3 deviations
Literature

Limericks: Christmas Edition

There once was a snowflake named Nell A frigid mademoiselle, Who thought, "I'll succeed In this life that I lead!" While her life flashed right by as she fell. A snowman named Chad was befuddled: Life was so short and so muddled! He watched days come and go But too soon, as you know, He melted away in a puddle. One winter the North Pole was closed: For Santa was sick in his nose. He sat by the fire And yelled, "I'm retired!" So Christmas is cancelled I s'pose.

limerick

4 deviations
Literature

Minerva: DFC 2012 1

No doubt that you are woebegone with war; forever trapped to that we keep in mind, not tending to remember you were more than what our callow concept keeps confined. Oh would you not be happier by far to work your magic for our sordid star, to weave your wayward tapestries of lace, and heal the sick with holy wisdom's grace?

DFC 2012 entries

75 deviations
Literature

Surface Tension

we're tromping off again and it's my turn to guide us to adventure, as practice. but in the doing i hope we will speak our heartfelt thoughts, not silence, not just facts.

tetractys

5 deviations

sijo

8 deviations
Literature

haar stoutelings

she asks me how much i love her; i answer, "i love you lots!" she asks me how much i like her, and i answer, "some."

dodoitsu

2 deviations
Literature

sei per sei

with six sounds per each line, can six rhymes be there found and profound thought enshrined? or must one just give in: have a swim in the sun of the fun and the whim?

sei per sei

1 deviation
Literature

Drone

Again start to back away Go to work Leave well alone Tie and suit and clipboard and cubicle With even lonely feelings Numb distracting feelings Being ignored I have done well I have done well Engines feeding life breeding compliments By conversations intelligent Drifting smartly out and in Dropping observing checking copying Caffeine morphine dripping Seeping into veins Plug jarred Altered life-circuit On then off Lights flickering in one word Drone Word One in flickering lights Off-then-on circuit life altered Jarred Plug veins into seeping dripping Morphine caffeine Copying checking observing Dropping in and out smartly Drifting

palindrome

1 deviation
Literature

it is by will alone...

a thought falling through my mind space due to sprawling gravity's grace. it's hard to race a thought falling; hard to replace ideas stalling voices drawling, truth to deface; a thought falling into disgrace. i must embrace, though it's galling, i can't outpace a thought falling.

empat empat

2 deviations
Literature

If it Sparkles Like a Vampire...(Empat Empat)

If it Sparkles Like A Vampire… 02-04-18 Blood drips in rivulets of righteous red From teeth more opalescent than white pearl. For 'vampires sparkle', it has been said – Both the undead boy and girl – Thus, if their skin sparkles, then so too their teeth. Blood drips in rivulets of righteous red, As fangs retract from fruity flesh; the meat Of choice for any claiming to be undead. One must learn to keep one's head, When faced with a vamp entranced by veins. Blood drips in rivulets of righteous red; Once bitten, you will no longer be the same. They are the Lords and Lady's of the night, The sun chases them to coffin'ed be

'fraidy refrain forms contest

3 deviations