Pain's Requiem
The Klavasi Poet

Daggers shaped like 1,000 knives
Carving a home for my hollowed heart
Blades sharpening with each roughened force
My...

(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)

The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their...

Synopsis: This is a piece of Environmental poetry where Shakespeare shares with us what it is like being 'Down in the Dumps'. Concept Description: Using part of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, I...

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice...

Go little poem. Go sneak into each ear and vellicate the lobe with vowels that chime or blow upon the drum to make them hear, not see (tug eyelids shut) the rising climb of consonants, the...

We shoved off. I took starboard, you took port and rudder, I the jib. The rising sail puffs proudly, slackens then inhales in sport. Will we have shifting gusts or calm or gale? Above the...

I stared and thought, “How small, how strange, how plain." Details my memory knew so well and took so often, never stopping to retain. I felt a fool and yet I had to look. What I beheld I...

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to...

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