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More Eight Line Poems (March 2021 - ?)
A collection of what-nots, doodads and random thoughts arranged into lines and verses.
The Lone Lighthouse with No Light
Hazel is happy to find land but there are more troubles ahead with the lighthouse.
Fisherman's Feast
This just isn't fair
Humanity
The writing on the wall
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I saw an old windmill today, it made feel small.
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It was work for me today. The kind that no one likes, the kind that is on a Monday.
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Lunch is a pocket of life in a day dominated by work.
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The writing on the wall
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Sometimes the magic works and I write a touching poem...
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Internal Eternal
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Dedicated to all the survivors of cancer
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Without You
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Dodoitsu (7, 7, 7, 5) for Writer's Cramp
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Wiccan Queen
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A Gothic poem
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Abnormalities
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A walk through the City of the Dead...
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Under A Disfigured Moon
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Howling dogs at night...
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The Secret
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A secret accomplishment
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Describing Women
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Describing a woman without saying, "she, her, woman, female, girl."
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The Last Royal March
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The End of the Queen
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The Walk Of The Wino
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Writer's Cramp entry (the virelay form)
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Frost Covered Ground
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Writers Cramp Entry
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Dirty Little Secrets
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Free verse concerning bad habits...
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POETRY
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Undeniable
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Write a poem - free verse - containing a square, a circle and a triangle.
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Aug 30th, 2005
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POETRY
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Little Firefly
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The birth of imagination
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PROSE
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Last Train
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A 'Haibun' written for the Writer's Cramp
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Feb 20th, 2004
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POETRY
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Road With No End
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The walk is long, but I am surviving (a French Triolet)
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POETRY
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My Lovely Daughter
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A poem using the lilibonelle form
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Oct 2nd, 2003
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January 28, 1986
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Prelim Round of Poetry Slam
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May 17th, 2006
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Beneath a Huckleberry Sky
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Writer's Cramp Entry
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Weight Of The World
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Written for Lexi's Poetry Challenge
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Feb 22nd, 2005
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Mar 22nd, 2007
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POETRY
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Fear Of Sleeping
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Sleep, that room next door to death...
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Feb 18th, 2005
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This Old House
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A deathly scream in the middle of the night
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Oct 27th, 2004
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Jun 1st, 2025
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We Were Companions
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You used to say, I love you
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Jun 19th, 2004
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Mar 7th, 2023
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POETRY
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Silent Beauty Forgets
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Write a poem with the words silent, beauty, and forget.
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Jun 7th, 2004
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Dec 23rd, 2010
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