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A City of Splendor and GraceWe are bound for a city of splendor and grace,
Where farewells are never the case.
Heaven’s realm is beyond earthly scenes,
Where mansions are prepared by heavenly means.
With Love as judge, the verdict is clear,
Everyone is invited...
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Categories:
city, encouraging, heaven, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The BuffaloNo one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky stampede
How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...
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Categories:
animal, city, earth, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Eager Bard Imbued Part TwoLemon tinted phase
gilded skyline blown
by ethereal fused mist
eager bard imbued
opal dream flotilla
beyond tarnish while
flash point chariots
of gleam-well canvass
astir or astern perforce
taunt a hued vase
porcelain image fest
for staunch earthbound...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, character, city,
Form: Free verse
Renaissance
Metro Cardigan
with a slim fit.
Be in your thinking mature.
Hero of the day.
Atlantic Starr
Moving steadily besides the still waters.
May goodness follow me.
Ensemble Cymbalta.
Skyscrapers on top of cloud atlas,
Vanilla sky fools delight of a purple sky.
Rotating around...
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Categories:
city, adventure, appreciation, art, black
Form: Free verse
A SmidgenGive a pigeon just a smidgen
And his friends will flock to share
While each sparrow’s focus narrows,
Wond’ring if it’s worth the dare.
Soon a robin may come bobbin’
Though he’s just consumed a worm
Which the grackle tried to...
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Categories:
bird, city,
Form: Rhyme
i smoked a cigarette and left the city behindI asked the owl:
“What is love?”
She said to me:
"Ask God."
I asked God:
“What is love?”
He said:
“Ask your wife.”
I asked my wife:
“What is love?”
She replied with a smile:
«Ask the owl»
I smoked a cigarette and left the city...
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Categories:
city, love,
Form: Free verse
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
america, christmas, city, evil,
Form: Free verse
Passport~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
time
traveling
through the
city's
passport
of medieval
colors...
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Categories:
city, color, travel,
Form: Monoku
The forestSoon the forest would reveal its dark secret
and I don't want to be there again to see
instead I'd be walking the world on my own
cuz I already know what's in there
I told myself so many...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Little SquaresEvery building in my view
Has perfect little squares
Of windows lined up neatly
Which I gaze at, unawares.
From where I sit, I cannot see
The curtains, shades or blinds,
The distance meaning if I stare,
Then no one really minds.
And...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Rhyme
TRAVEL GURUUSA busway
East Coast to West Coast
Greyhound Bus vision
Lots of scenery in reason
It took four days
Hour by Hour
Time didn’t sour
That is what I call a vacation getaway
I reclined and was relaxed
No stress nor perplexed
Major cities and...
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Categories:
city, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Nightmare called DementiaThis dreadedness has haunted me since my abrupt traumatic brain injury followed by daytime sleep apnea narcolepsy unable to stay awake all day falling a sleep in doctors office on the bus trains in meetings...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, blessing, city,
Form: Free verse
On The LineI can hardly believe that you are leaving after all the places you have been, I can hardly believe that you are leaving to start a brand new season.
Winter is still hanging around and the...
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Categories:
america, bereavement, business, city,
Form: Narrative
Taipei Firefly SeasonTaipei summer bright
Enhancing the city's night
Flashing firefly light....
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Categories:
city, light, night, seasons,
Form: Haiku
The Ocean DirtThe heat is blazing underneath the earth and the ocean is polluted with plastic, mud and dirt, the sediment in the sea bed has reach the depth and the sea animals that roam the ocean...
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Categories:
beach, business, change, city,
Form: Narrative
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