Starlit Memories
...Starlit Memories
“…recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown…”
Samuel Coleridge
Midnight reveries tickle my memories
When I see bright asterisms ascend
Throu...
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Categories:
aquila, childhood, dream, magic, stars,
Form: Terza Rima
Eagle's Love
...She cried
All the tears
Of her body
Of his heart
Of her mind
Until
Only his soul
Can reveal herself
Can transform himself
In the flood of the Nile
This is the way it is
That fl...
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Categories:
aquila, africa, bird,
Form: Free verse
Girl On a Dolphin
...Favorite Carolyn Devonshire Poem
History Rising from the Sea
Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth century artifact
By ancestors hewn
Earth's history lays buried
Beneath five o...
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Categories:
aquila, animal, girl, life, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Take a Chance
...Oak wears green taffeta
Dancing in March's brisk breeze
Sometimes shakes ill at ease
Are oaks in Africa?
Looking at Aquila?
An affair with Altair gee !
Oak dances with redbud
C...
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Categories:
aquila, funny,
Form: Verse
New York City Subway May 24th
...It is crowded standing room only.Door slides shut.
I am not able to get very far from it as I
grab the nearest pole. A young man
who has a grotesque face
stands against the door as he is barely i...
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Categories:
aquila, angst, life, truth,
Form: Free verse
Forgiveness
...In the secret place of thunder
Before the rain
You speak my name
At the crack of lightening
My soul, set ablaze with restlessness
Awaits the awakening.
What is this thunder rumbling
Down valle...
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Categories:
aquila, faith, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Epitaph
...I studied the Roman epitaph
Translation provided by museum staff
Of a retired centurion of the 6th Legion
Scratched in letters three inches tall
on a gravestone found near Hadrian’s Wall
The ...
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Categories:
aquila, history, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Deliverance
...Last summer was dry
Grass turned brittle
Beetles devoured roses
Fumes from sweltering engines swept over
dusty streets like ghosts.
The ground cracked.
Bits of dirt crumbled in my hands.
Bo...
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Categories:
aquila, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
...Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. Th...
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Categories:
aquila, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Where I Come From
...I was born on Altair, a star in the constellation of Aquila
and the twelfth brightest star in your night sky.
After my family and I decided to move here to Earth,
we quickly learned...
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Categories:
aquila, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Aquila - Collaboration With White Wolf
...The wind swept up in a tormenting gale,
Both the ground below and the sky were frail,
History repeats or so they do say,
All the elements released on this day.
Fire consumed earth with its pass...
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Categories:
aquila, animal, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Cosmic Curiosity:
...If we could cross the sunset skies,
We'd never need a place to lie,
Finding ourselves above all else,
We could fly until the end of time.
But what goes up must also come down,
Although...
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Categories:
aquila, space, star, stars, universe,
Form: Free verse
I'Ll Love You Just the Same
...As surely as the winter melts away into the spring;
So surely as the robins come with mallards on the wing;
As surely as the summer comes and fades away to fall,
You’ll be the only one I love; the...
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Categories:
aquila, absence, analogy, emotions, first
Form: Couplet
Aquila
...AQUILA
Aquila
constellations combinations
permutation patterns her plight
of
water and flight
Eagle
wings soaring powerfully
wind ravages plummeting
her
freedom light
Feat...
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Categories:
aquila, beauty, mythology, sea,
Form: Personification
Risking Our Necks 11052011
...GREET PRISCA AND AQUILA, MY CO-WORKERS IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO RISKED THEIR NECKS FOR MY LIFE ROMANS 16:3-4
PRISCA (ALSO CALLED PRISCILLA) and Aquila
Were first-century lay missionaries who accompa...
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Categories:
aquila, caregiving, childhood, education, faith,
Form: I do not know?
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