Affiance
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I quiver as you -
so dainty as a snowflake,
with poise and grace, dash on by.
Why quiver, when one
can dance amongst this blizzard?
I say, clothe me in snow's light.
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Categories:
affiance, beauty, destiny, engagement, love,
Form: Sedoka
Dangerous Dalliance
...Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
“However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to...
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Categories:
affiance, analogy, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Doll
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Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate
Affiance instant, folding fingers christen simulate
Phantasm button nose, rosebud lips, locks flaxen
Escapist...
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Categories:
affiance, april, business, childhood, dark,
Form: Acrostic
Lurking
...He returned with peevish looks,
a condescending demeanor,
Vaunting as though his bones were made of rocks
and his sinews of brass,
bottled up acrimony burning from his bowels,
A prideful fa...
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Categories:
affiance, allegory, angst, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Enemy On My Bed
...And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.Judges 14:18b
They plowed with the heifer,
A stranger of a day,
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Categories:
affiance, allegory, allusion, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
A Tragic Affiance
...Absurdity walked this path of a whorish lane,
Dauntingly decked in a dark seductive garb
Egregiously seeks the thrones by craftiness,
Nebulous transverse for the wayfaring man.
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Categories:
affiance, black love, character, divorce,
Form: Epigram
No Vanity Set For This Chap No Way
...No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way
(in praise of immortality)
Modesty an understatement,
when eyes chance
to look askew at looking glass,
mine reflection caught at a glance,
an old man's pie...
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Categories:
affiance, age, analogy, change, father,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I and Me
...Seeing, what others want us to see,
Invigorate ‘them’, by subduing our plea.
Tears inside, still continuing with a glee,
Temporal affiance, desisting us to be free.
If this is life then what are ...
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Categories:
affiance, courage, dedication, deep, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Fragments
...Fragments
Bewilderment to diminish from family
Is a Baroque distraught of your dexterity
The anguish of the fruits caused by your frailty
Divulge amnesia temperamental apathy
Perspicuous dim...
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Categories:
affiance, relationship,
Form: I do not know?