strange whirled
careful what you wish for! (poetry, 2024)
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Poems To Make You Smile
Some light-hearted Poems to make you smile. Poetry at it's quirkiest!
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FOR
FOR - a collection tracing the weight of giving, where words linger on what surrounds me. these poems speak for moments, for muses that exist within and beyond me, shaping stories i've yet to claim as my own. ! cover art design from pinterest. credits to the owner.
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Is your Blue my Red
I wrote these comments and other random thoughts on Wattpad and elsewhere on the web. I think we as poets have all lost a bit of our soul with the passing of our friend @Lisaner and we are just a bit more mortal and reflective, may we always hold the poet's word as a living thing. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan L. Smi...
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This Hungry S(k)in ~ poetry~
a blend of glorious and grotesque. a collection of poetry. a surge of madness. There are ten poems following the MC's struggle with aching, desire, and a constant hunger for love.
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Menagerie of Mischief
"Squirrels, eagles, lynxes, deer - all reincarnated here." A collection of prompted poems as part of WattpadPoetry's 'Versification' challenge held every April (Poetry Month), 2022 and 2023. _____ AWARDS: 🥇 Grand Winner Versification 2022 | @WattpadPoetry
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Wishing-Well of Whispers
"This is the bridge where torn hearts go - / Into the depths, they overthrow." Words of mischance and mortality | A poetry collection that acknowledges the darker side of human experience (death, dismay, disaster) but offers notes of resilience and resolution. Verses may be psychological, philosophical or political in...
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Featured by Wattpad CoffeeCommunity things happen, things happen. | prose/poetry | (a collection of twenty eight)
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Twilight's Interval of Rest
Oneness with nature is a joy to observe, because as you observe you become a part of it instead of apart from it.
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The Wizard!
The Wizard! This collection from Olan L. Smith is a dialogue series that asks questions and ponders evidence about existence. We will take a look behind the curtain to see what the Wizard is up to and what tricks he (she) has up his (her) sleeve, be warned that in so doing it might spoil the illusion we call life.
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Poems from the Quill, by Olan L. Smith
"Poems from the Quill" is where I place current works that don't fall into other collections. It is here you will find obscure poems that range from constraint to free-verse. I began this collection as a contest entry, years ago, for what was then the poetry side of the Watty's contest and I have since kept it current...
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Beat Poems, by Olan L. Smith
I am trying to collect all my beat poetry and placing it in one collection here on Wattpad.
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The Unicorn and Other Poems
Mostly transcribed from a chapbook I made in 1982 and updated in 1991. Original contents were simple rhymes, sonnets, Christmas poems, light verse and others.
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To you, I sing across the moon
One day I sat down and spun a story to the stars above. Hoping they can keep a secret. But the moon, that traitor, turned around and told you everything I said. About you. And about this world. All my little idle thoughts grew roots and flesh. Now, knowing this, will you turn towards me? x x x A collection of (lov...
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ways of slowly dying ~ poetry
"life is slow dying. so are their separate ways of building, benediction, measuring love and money ways of slowly dying." ~ philip larkin
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PARADISE LOST (Completed)
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revision...
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𝓟oems 𝓟rismatic
''sketches that shape-shift the angle and the curve'' (line from the poem 'Contrast) Recent/new poems tend to be at the beginning of the book.
