Goodbyes Play Their Part
...Parting moments bring you closer.
The thought of separation
Disturbs your sleep and hunger.
Want to be a winner…
Try to be together.
Take not anything for granted,
If you don’t want to be a lo...
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Categories:
40 words, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Bringing You Flowers
...Never mind about distance
No whine if no sunshine
Don’t care if drenched by rain
Just want to cheer you u...
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Categories:
40 words, girlfriend,
Form: Verse
Flowers For All Seasons
...Flowers affirm my constant love for you.
Sweetheart, prepare to receive these
from January to December:
carnation, violets
daffodils, daisies
hawthorns, roses
buttercups, gladiolus
ast...
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Categories:
40 words, appreciation, character, christian, flower,
Form: Free verse
Running To Meet My Lover
...Alighting the train, it began to rain
I won't let go of the flowers held tightly in my hand
While running, the road was slippery.
With every determination,
I'm running towards my lover.
Cho...
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Categories:
40 words, for her,
Form: Free verse
Serene Love
...
we drove the winding road
to this remote beach
with aquamarine waves crashing
. . . roaring
now, watching the scene
from the car
I read . . .
as you
caress my leg
. . . with...
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Categories:
40 words, day, love, summer,
Form: Free verse
In Denial
...Drenched to the skin,
Propelled by the urge
Of eager anticipation
He rushes to greet her
Undeterred by freezing rain
And slashing, bitter wind…
Same day
Same train station platform
Same ...
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Categories:
40 words, fate,
Form: Free verse
Frisky As Two-Year-Olds
...*Image of Conhece-te a ti mesmo (Know thyself) by Pinterest.
Frisky as Two-Year-Olds
HIM: Anything unputdownable?
HER: Yes, and you?
HIM: Lucky, we're here, we'll continue indoors ... and...
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Categories:
40 words, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse
Helping Hand
...Old pallid lady seen here,
frail from cold,
snow-slicked roads,
sluggish old woman,
a young guy,
stopped, whispered,
I'll lend a safe fist,
life is an unwinnable battle?
guide t...
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Categories:
40 words, analogy, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Breathless
...
Simple moments, like the wind
Whispering through the leaves, content
Gifting each soul a taste of love’s song
Breathing promises, tenderness
Suggestions of the beauty and pea...
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Categories:
40 words, cute love, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Of Rhymes and Reasons
...My words are birds hatched from ideas
and nourished by my own opinions, beliefs and memories.
Nature too provides me with inspiration and wings to fly!
I build nests using poetic devic...
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Categories:
40 words, poetry,
Form: Haibun
I Must Dwell With My Words
...I cannot write my poems quick, I must dwell with them for perhaps a day.
Ponder them, swirl them in my head, let them sink into my soul, let them dwell, and then like magic the words come spilling o...
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Categories:
40 words, life,
Form: Haibun
October Suns
...October Suns
October suns are a fire
that set the orange leaves
aglow
sprinkling embers in Maple leaves
to make them blood red.
October Saturdays always have sunshine.
There are colors-plent...
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Categories:
40 words, october,
Form: Free verse
Rooting For 8 To 5
...
Roots
Buried deep and dark, roots promise worthy fruits
that feed and blossom from one common seed.
With solid branches multiplying thru so many years,
growing up and out ...
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Categories:
40 words, family, growth, history, tree,
Form: Verse
Rooting For 8 To 5
...The old oak stands straight, sturdy and tall
I wonder what would happen, should it fall?
A pillar stiff and cold through ages past
It marks many a story held never told
and in darkest shadows li...
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Categories:
40 words, nature, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Rooting For 8 To 5
...Darkness shrouds shrubbery compacted soil underneath branched umbrella.
Harmonious hums sweep away winded time, exposing base.
Planted within earth, treble tones influence fantastic alt...
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Categories:
40 words, deep, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Verse
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