The Echo Returns Not
...When driving in Colorado or Nevada,
where twilight crimson rays on canyons burn,
into ancient layers of blood red strata -
on crooked roads, don't take the wrong turn.
They say, in these part...
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Categories:
adjourns, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
CESSATION
...CESSATION
That pain is like treading on bottle tops
Or stumbling into some hidden caltrops
Suddenly, as when some lightbulb pops
The welcome relief when it finally stops
Like making big gains ...
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Categories:
adjourns, fate, future,
Form: Rhyme
Your Ardour
...Who adjourns me
in this backlight story
Who will call the wolf
to dance in her captivity ?
Willow wisp dispensing hollowness
espied on fields of grey
The World's a stage
disembark at your ow...
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Categories:
adjourns, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Where the Wind Goes
...Among the moss, I can smell the ominous mist the frog's croaks begin to twist. As our cold winter father adjourns, Break out from the earth my graves of flowers....
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Categories:
adjourns, surreal,
Form: Free verse
The Night Class
...There was never a time,
Learning is ever fun studying alone.
Enjoying hitting the books exploring to the prime,
Is always great in crazy zone.
We are never satisfied unremitting.
Each ha...
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Categories:
adjourns, art, best friend, class,
Form: Rhyme
Charlotte Angel
...I was a minister of the gospel, very happily living my life for the Lord,
Preaching the Word every Sunday, in the spirit of affinity and accord.
I always knew that I would preach, for I had been ...
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Categories:
adjourns, angel, christian, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
A Valuable Lesson
...It’s ironic, when I think about it…as the years pass…
the more and more I grow
the more and more I come to realize…
all the things I do not know.
My parents and my teachers helped me learn…
Th...
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Categories:
adjourns, life,
Form: Rhyme
Touching Again
...Happy days will soon return
Time remains till the bug adjourns
Imagine that day
The world has prayed
Touching others without concern...
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Categories:
adjourns, celebration,
Form: Limerick
What Have We Learned
...As we walk barefoot in the sand we quickly come to understand
a lesson we would love to teach
That an enlightened grain of sand is one that comes to understand
she or he…that grain of sand…she is ...
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Categories:
adjourns, humanity,
Form: Verse
Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
...Comfortable Walking Shoes
Tattered, dusty soles
Complete with holes
Brisk Weather
Summer heat adjourns
Autumn wind churns
Beware Flying Objects
Acorn hits head
(Bette...
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Categories:
adjourns, humor, nature,
Form: Couplet
Spring Song
...The arrival of spring is a double delight,
Both a welcome revival and winter's good night.
It's a frigid departure, emotional lift,
And a planet refurbished, and God-given gift.
Spring is ho...
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Categories:
adjourns, april, beauty, celebration, earth,
Form: Light Verse
Fabulous Fun Footles
...Foot Loose Freestone
Foot loose
Recluse
Lost sole
Toe holed
Paw flawed
Cause thawed
Returns
Adjourns
His trek
To beck
Doctor
Cobbler
With glues
Fix shoes
To trea...
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Categories:
adjourns, travel,
Form: Footle
Just Ask John Hurt
...Today I awoke carelessly
jostling my sheets about my bed
without a reason to check the time.
I check my email to find a familiar message;
another job rejection.
This makes an even fifty.
The ca...
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Categories:
adjourns, blue, dad, music, sick,
Form: Free verse
Spring Into Leap Years
...So winter shows me yet again
No hint of snows we just get rain
Far too cold it's just the same
Far too old too feel the pain.
Blue crisp mornings bring a treat
To see your yawnings freeze
Bir...
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Categories:
adjourns, seasons,
Form: I do not know?
Dawn
...Dawn mused skies and heart in turn
Through dew hazed eyes, a tear is veiled
Emotive hues as daybreak yearns
Dawn mused skies and heart in turn
Horizon blushed as night adjourns
A new day’s face,...
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Categories:
adjourns, morning, sky,
Form: Triolet
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