Category: Blank verse

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He knelt down, worshipping the words themselves -
a selfless act of epeolatry.

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No person walked that road bestrewn with holes,
nor stumbled on the stones awaiting there.

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His love of ladders overtook all else:
Affections which beclouded reasoned thought.

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The lines suggested forests, cities, roads.
In fact they traced mere cracks in melting ice.

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The wind attacked us in the afternoon
while questing down the road to stretch its arms.
The grayish skies were roiled with nature's doubts,
and angry trees danced signs upon the hills.

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A click - and so it was my book became
not just a text onscreen, but paper stuff.

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The trees were gathered, put on lengthy lists,
their reachings inventoried, nothing missed.

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Before the dawn I saw the looming stars
up north above the sleeping mountain there.

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I wrestled mightily with my machine,
in hopes of making websites great and small.
The errors stayed the same despite my wants,
and finally I slept and dreamed in code.

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With dreams you trust the patterns that you see.
The meanings thrust themselves across your mind.
You wonder at the things appearing there.
At last they fade and morning shakes your soul.

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I dream this dream about a magic house
that changes shape and shifts its placement too.

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We worked a while. Malicious rain annoyed.
No sun appeared. Our spirits were dissolved.

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The beach was wide because the tide was out.
An eagle had a fish so seagulls cried.

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A rainless dawn presents its colors, here,
revealing whitecaps racing down the bay.

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My coffee's ready, waiting for me there.
Now, can I not forget before it cools?

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The city's limbs were crafted stone and wood,
extending out across the rolling plain.
Thin vessels made of steel and copper wire
assisted in connecting place to place.

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I laid my metaphors to slowly dry.
They dampened all the floor and stained my mind.

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Our knees were bent, our faces gazed, bemused.
The table bore some cups, a bowl of fruit.
Sumerian complaints escaped our mouths,
but no one ever reached their statements' ends.

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The snow kept falling, failing, uselessly,
barely blanking trees, melting on the ground.

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The sun appeared and pierced the parting clouds.
A melancholy thing consumed the wood.

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So twenty blurry years ago today
I made a try at dying: took some pills...
instead became a ghost abroad. It stayed
as if a dream had taken over this...
this world, this life, this cold oneiric space.
I found I could not stop my headlong trip
because each trembling leaf I saw had grace.
And finally, the ghost had found his will.

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I put her there, in front of class. I said,
"You're teacher - boss!" The boys in back were bad,
They joked, and made the rudest sounds. She stood,
With folded arms and grave aplomb and verve:
"If you don't mind, I'd like to go on now."
For all the world an old hand at these things.
In fact she showed more wisdom than I do,
In such soft voice, at such an age - thirteen.

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