Liberation step 2
...observe habit patterns that bind
exerting a compelling bind
from which if we wish to be free
befriend silence, with love aligned
awareness free from our mind tree
ambles gently through life c...
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Categories:
ambles, introspection, silence, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
It Is To Be
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Written: April 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Quote "Don't grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form,"by Rumi
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Categories:
ambles, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Song
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Parody of Christmas song "Christmas time is here"
Christmas comes not to stray
on the snow-stacked pathway.
Comes all the way so punctual
with the blissful occasion to pray.
Fa...
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Categories:
ambles, celebration, joy,
Form: Rhyme
In Streets of Solitude
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In streets of solitude...
A societal ghost ambles through
A bustling concrete jungle unnoticed.
A lost soul with sartorial handicap,
Carrying life inside his overstuffed backpack.
His...
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Categories:
ambles, city, dark, loneliness, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Five Ku
...autumn ambles slowly
shuffling through fallen leaves
dodging Winter’s kiss
crumpled pumpkins frown
sparrows await a sunrise
a barn cat stretches
seagulls battle gusts
crabs wander an empty...
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Categories:
ambles, autumn, change, winter,
Form: Senryu
The waves and her
...The waves&her
Along the waves she ambles
Prevailing the ocean elysian
The longing feel of a hiraeth
Sensual, her cheeks aflush; An inamorata.
She gently rubs her eyes and sees-
the bewit...
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Categories:
ambles, 12th grade, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Awaiting the Ebb Tide
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She chose to think his sweet talk lies were cute…
that things he said had value worth pursuit.
that substance would emerge, somewhat astute.
And while his words of love she wants to feel…
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Categories:
ambles, 11th grade, bullying, heartbreak,
Form: Hybronnet
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing get...
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Categories:
ambles, analogy, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Why Not
...Time ambles on
separating each day
with uncontrolled grief
I was overcome by the pretty
all the birds sang to me
like a dream, forever searching
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Categories:
ambles, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN
...TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW
IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN
A cow looks at the full moon standing on a sloping hillside
it looks straight at the moon as if it were waiting for an answer
the beas...
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Categories:
ambles, courage, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Stillness
...I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.
Often I had to issue advisories and wa...
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Categories:
ambles, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Mental Intrusion
...I find myself in a familiar place and lost once again.
Well off my daily “straight and narrow.” Her intangible
presence creating problems my mind has proven -far too
weak to remedy…
Like an ancie...
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Categories:
ambles, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Velvet
..."The velvet veins running through my deep-coloured wings sing blues, remembering the non-existent maple memories, lighting up my heart's frosty rays."
~ Deepa...
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Categories:
ambles, lost love, sad,
Form: Terza Rima
Unburdened
...She carried her hurts like a bag full of rocks
and named it her hard knocks box..
It grew heavier and heavier as she traveled
to and fro so one sunny day, she let them all go...
Now she ambles l...
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Categories:
ambles, 1st grade, god,
Form: Light Verse
Do You See Me
...I lay myself bare all over again,
I need you to look,
Not with mere sight,
But with depth of your very being,
I need you to see me fully.
I want to be the sight you endure for ages long,
A vi...
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Categories:
ambles, allusion, psychological,
Form: I do not know?
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