spiritus ignis - for California
...
while torrid sparks lick heaven’s cheek
those Santa Anas sweep the peaks
and stoke the charring blaze that kills
each breathing creature ‘tween the hills
sweet Cali’s ...
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Categories:
anas, analogy, fire, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Firestorm The 'Orange Glow'
...Scents of burnt embers flowing over my windowsills
Charred are the palm tree fronds that
once fanned the breeze
Seized are the pods, timbers
Torches sparking shrills
Behold the...
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Categories:
anas, anxiety, confusion, fear, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Ava Aka Anas Anatidae
...AN AYLESBURY DUCK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesbury_duck
There's a duck
of high renown
bred &reared
in my county town
with orange
feet &plumage light
of culinary fame...
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Categories:
anas, food, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Ban-Anas
...If they can ban Dr. Seuss ~
They'll come next for Mother Goose...
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Categories:
anas, books, corruption, society,
Form: Epigram
I Just Remembered
...I just remembered this-
The Santa Anas were blowing hard.
I woke up and stood at the patio door.
The table outside, its round glass top,
lifted perfectly, magically
up, floated,
and then down ...
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Categories:
anas, memory,
Form: Free verse
Just Ducky
...When sex was as common as muck
The Mallard took over as "Duck"
Not much for playing
The hens were laying
Because one and all loved its pluck*
* Like American police,
Anas platyrhync...
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Categories:
anas, bird, lust,
Form: Limerick
The Penelope Squad
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“The Penelope Squad”
A line of bluebirds
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys
having a good time
poop in the pe...
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Categories:
anas, giggle, humor, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Call To Justice
...The Call To Justice
When the days turn sourer
And the month turns dark
With the years flinging to return no more
Only the lonely already will thrive.
When the hopes of the Negros grow faint
B...
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Categories:
anas, courage,
Form: Didactic
He Must Have Been Big
...Sybil Madison
(her stage name)
And Bernie Dodds
(real name)
Weren’t nobodies.
She had been in pictures,
He directed
And wrote a few.
You remember-
Those great lines in
Down In Th...
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Categories:
anas, death, relationship, together, ,
Form: Blank verse
Last Night
...Confusion reigning in my head,
Last night I walked, surrendered bed,
As path led me beside the bay
My soul breathed in the 'milky way.'
Enjoined by magic of it all,
A star-stunned bat, an...
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Categories:
anas, life, travel,
Form: Couplet
Hot Air
...Hot Air
The name of that wind is Satana
It’s hot and it’s dusty and dry,
Don’t call the wind Santa Ana
In error, for that is a lie.
Saint Ann the mother of Mary
Is remembered in so man...
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Categories:
anas, education, environment, history, humorous,
Form: Ballade
Peering In the Windows
...Peering in the windows,
Of those lives I barely see,
Except when tokens are procured,
For rides, intermittently,
They look at me, I look back,
Nothing severed or taken,
My pith, unimpaired,
An...
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Categories:
anas, betrayal, crazy, fantasy, how
Form: Rhyme
The Witches Winds Are Blowing
...The Santa Ana's are here, and the moon is clear.
There is a mystic in the air that whispers in my ear.
Is this a peaceful feeling or does it carry fear ?
What is the passion and hot fragrence of...
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Categories:
anas, autumn, beautiful, change, creation,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Prophet Mohammed and Holy Quran Miracle
...Every prophet comes with miracles...someone asks what were the miracles of prophet Mohammed(May peace be upon him), now I will be mentioning some of them in the future, but here is one that I know an...
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Categories:
anas, dedication, faith, peace, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Ammo Abu Anas
...His words add splendor to all that’s trite
Just like a tender breeze would do to a
Hot, summer night
Just like mountains are embellished
By golden sunlight
And just like an afternoon sky is colo...
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Categories:
anas, dedication
Form: Rhyme
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