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(20 minute poetry)

#10word Siberia

In permafrost? or
listed as missing,
lost in the
floe.

#10word traveller

I visit this
ancient land
where the sand
meets Ozymandias.

#10word Bard.

Give me the quill
I have the will
to write.
kris evans Jun 2014
Poles apart attract each other......
Just like you and me.......
We fail
only to make
success
taste that much
sweeter.
Making a date
to meet in
Jerusalem
on
Palm Sunday.
Another deadline
headline
it's about time
they
sorted it out.
John Ryles Nov 2011
Great Oak
Acorn ripe
Squirrels harvest
For long
Winter nights
John Ryles Feb 2012
As the icicles cry

Bright spring sun

Wave’s winter goodbye
Brexit
wrecked it
for the ones
who wanted to stay.
feeling so so
is sometimes
as good as
it gets.
With thanks to Sarif Hossain and the conversation which prompted this
John Ryles Nov 2011
Perfumed candle
Laminar flame
Flickering stave
Casting shadows
Puppets misbehave
Waxing lyrical
bargain hunting,
as dangerous as
hunting for socks
that match
There should be an odd sock emporium.
Strip me down
and build
a
Kawasaki
from my
bones.
Troy,
for an ounce of treasure
a pleasure a
Tempest.

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