Divine Love II
...love is a tempestuous mirror...like an alabastrine river......
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Categories:
alabastrine, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Flower
...You call me a flower
But what kind?
Is it a yellow tulip? A cluster of warm sunshine and happiness?
Or maybe a Lily of the Valley? The tears I’ve shed for you made into delicate little milky ...
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Categories:
alabastrine, deep, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Truly Remarkable Tree
...There stands in my yard a dogwood tree
That is a remarkable sight to see
Why it took several years for me
To grasp the grandeur of this fine tree
Is still somewhat of a mystery
We bought our h...
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Categories:
alabastrine, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
And the Snow Was Somehow the Cause of the Maloccluded Door
...Earlier in the month but lately begun,
(Or was it perhaps the last one, the one before-November?
I know of a surety that it was a time uncoated by congeries
Of most alabastrine snow, and that th...
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Categories:
alabastrine, adventure, allegory, allusion, anniversary,
Form: I do not know?
Dim Is the Trial and Limitation of the Unseen Imagination, With Which I Cannot See
...If I only could see that which is beyond the pale of the limitation of
The complexity with which things espial are thus espied.
If the round pasty pastry-
Complete with its rind of crispy, golden...
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Categories:
alabastrine, absence, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
I've Never Heard Snow
...I've never heard the sound of snow
nor dawning's oboes crooning light,
yet witnessed angels' trumpets blow
and chimings of the flurries grow
as alabastrine wings take flight.
I've never heard ...
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Categories:
alabastrine, imagery, seasons, winter,
Form: Villanelle