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RAT CAUGHT BY FOX
I watched the fox, rat held firmly in its jaw, / Trot across the street, lithely avoiding the cars, / Ears pricked up.
@stanley-wilkin
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7.2k
Go Away
Go away little wisp. / I know what you are up to. / I pay the slightest notice,
@izshe
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3.1k
Greatness
I seek greatness, / Not perfection but / Something more.
@john-ashton-upston
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2.7k
Symbiotic
I thought when I'd turn to moss, / - when i had left myself to root. / When I had laid me down at last,
@slovesdisco
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2.4k
Rhyming Reviews - Wanderers
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig / The walkers didn’t choose their fate, / Leaving their homes to mindlessly advance;
@Sheloveswords
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2k
Fractured Poetry
Even shadows choose to whirl / lithely in the beams, / romancing other silhouettes
@phosphorimental
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1.3k
Crash
The sheets against my skin / rub me raw / like the ocean
@veronica-walters
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1.2k
Here Be Dragons
Nordri, Sudri, Austri and Vestri / Jumped right off of the castle tapestry / Lithely they run to the cardinals post haste
@Brotherjimmy
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1.1k
POUCH
Here still, words like hair unkempt, / Potent poison taking slowly to the grave, / The heart, in its silent scream,
@jeremiah-mhlongo
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1.1k
The Dream Woman
A sultry wind surges o'er the Mediterranean. / Rosy fingered dawn wakes the world, / As I habitually walk the lonely path to labor.
@Robert1719
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1k
20 years in the Hole
I’ve been told it’s punishment, but from the divine? / Loosed from the bonds, all earthly ties / And what for, say, can’t I.
@jp-goss
52
974
Ballet of the Seasons
Phantom footsteps / thrusting bodies into the lithely changing / lights of winter.
@momo
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951
Cold Seeps
I would have posited longings ago / this short-shrift to-do over such a curt list undone / was inconceivable
@francis-scudellari
57
935
Rusty palms
A lithely swallow. / A dipping in-- / laying into the flesh.
@kenna-mcc
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872
August 29
catapulted from ephemeral dreams of beautiful places / (the hurricane has arrived with enthusiasm) / I am wide-eyed in impenetrable darkness
@robin-gorham
24
872
Immovable
River / Flow over me / Anchor
@steven-fried
19
847
DRAG/QUEEN
... he points his toes / like a swan stretching its neck : / smooth calves in fish-nets
@butch-decatoria
52
835
SILENTLY
Silently, shadowed by night, / Its eyes shining like tears, / It pads through the desolated undergrowth
@stanley-wilkin
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794
Synonyms for Out of Place
i start losin' you but you bring / me back around without even / being here--
@broooke
48
710
What is your name?
What’s your name? / Does it have a sensuous timber? / Like Nina, and nuance- necessity, and
@steven-fried
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701
Drag Queen (repost)
Drag/Queen / ... he points his toes / like a swan stretching its neck :
@butch-decatoria
62
629
recompense
i can remember / listening quietly / to myself. a boy with eyes like fresh bruises and
@morgan-ella
27
626
This Road, Autumn-long
treading masterfully this autumn-long road where / at the end of first light so begins your fragile darkness. / i know not where you wait for me as birds in all geographies
@windsor-i-guadalupe-jr
26
589
The Fox
Red fur glints 'twixt trees galore / Above, a flight of swallows soar / As they fly deftly through the skies
@KNL
12
586
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