![To Hell With Formal Verse!](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/a67549b822f39afba178713fac5ace62.jpg) |
Constrained by laws, I think that poetryDeserves much free and broad and lucid thoughtUnbound from chains of silly prosodyThat only serves to harden w..
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![Words and Images](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
In a cold, damp corner of my mindWhere receding memories reside,An ephemeral image Of your shyly curved brows That float upon your diaphanous eyes,And..
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![What the heart told the mind](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/f7d196ea39d5d1fa559855a8b283dbe1.jpg) |
"In this time and age,Where sunlight quiversAt the tyranny of
the dayAnd seeks refugeIn the vigil of the night,What is
hopeBut a mural of that lig..
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![One more evening](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/087d6bd8536388088cd0c5e7be33db96.jpg) |
Or, The Autumn of Life
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![Descriptions](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/289989a9cd427bcbc59055a7f7541ff8.jpg) |
I will describe not your eyesAnd the sliver of shyness that dancesBetween the poetry of your brows.I will describe not your faceAnd the million dreams..
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![Dancing with her](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/76d5889df1c1c0da4f3bfe138d39014d.jpg) |
She's bathed by nectar from a bleeding rose,
She's draped by sunshine and morning yellow.
She tastes of honey and smells of musk,
An..
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![A Ballad of Summer](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/9aa3ed88e87fe0b93f3d107783155b8c.jpg) |
An experiment with the Ballad meter.
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![I. Infrequentia](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/256a9c55def6a97a73f060b754188ba9.jpg) |
I. InfrequentiaThe trees had lost
their earthern charm
When winter came
around.
The leaves were sad, so
coldly sad;
And fell upon the
gr..
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![II. Fortuna](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/2affc41368a32ec3d9a67365be17f319.jpg) |
II. Fortuna
A speck of sun and fulsome moon
Entangled into one;
A silhouette of thousand stars,
Whose day had just begun;
She spared a ..
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![III. Decor](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
III. DecorI stood in silence, and in aweBeside the becalmed brookShe grew in beauty, quietly soWith every step she took;And gave me back my aching lif..
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