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Arabesques Poems - Poems about Arabesques

Peregrine Falcons at Malham Cove
... A crescent of high cliffs rooted into a plateau of heathland. From all directions cloud mottled wings, dart between the light and shade - falcons, their wingspans aerofoiled for instant chase.......

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Categories: arabesques, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hermann Hesse translation of 'Secretly We Thirst'
...Hermann Hesse English Translations Secretly We Thirst… by Hermann Hesse from The Glass Bead Game translation by Michael R. Burch Charismatic, spiritual, with the gracefulness of arabesques, ......

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Categories: arabesques, birth, dance, death, dream,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On the Threshold of Depravities' Door
... I objestigate between arabesques and sleep, fugaciously spasmodic in fluxes and leaps. I'm indifferent to the misanthropic mocking, that welltering inflection that I call plockingism......

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Categories: arabesques, word play,
Form: Vogon Poetry
The Pond Gulls
... The town pond was drained, revealing minnows wriggling in the residual water they milled and turned in silvered arabesques choregraphed by a rippling wind. Large ocean-going gulls descende......

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Categories: arabesques, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the grand stage of the world, under lights of dreams and flickering charm
...On the grand stage of the world, under lights of dreams and flickering charm, We dance our illusions, beneath arcs of sun and mysteries fashioned through dreams vast and warm. Freedom, a chimera of......

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Categories: arabesques, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Maestro - POTD
...Maestro – 4-23-24 Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple. Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic. Head of the Music School University of Washington. Conductor of the University......

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Categories: arabesques, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blossoms
... Blossoms, pink and cherry, alabaster and puce, herald the vernal equinox. Sol arabesques lightly on His tightrope, balancing His time equally, stirring His audience to burst forth wi......

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Categories: arabesques, color, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Rictameter
Prodigree 1
... Roads of gold and gates of pearl are thoughts solidified, finding resting place here, having been purified, first, in a trial by fire- in the bulwarked organ of love's pineal desire.......

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Categories: arabesques, art,
Form: Rhyme
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
...Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment Quite an undertaking to break ground figuratively, and symbolically linkedin while able bodied and mindedness readies cemetery pl......

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Categories: arabesques, addiction, age, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
The Pond Gulls
...The Pond was drained, revealing umpteen minnows; they wriggle in the residual water turning in silvered arabesques choregraphed by a water-rippling wind. Large ocean-going gulls descend out of......

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Categories: arabesques, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Nutcracker---Sweet
...THE NUTCRACKER…SWEET In my 69 years I had never seen the Nutcracker Suite…never experienced the ballet….never heard Tchaikovsky’s entire score…that is…until yesterday. As I sat captivated by th......

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Categories: arabesques, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories of Bach
...Memories of Bach At 17, I performed a solo ballet to Bach Below a sparkling sky, On a park’s open green grass. The choreography flowed. I was well-rehearsed. The opportunity, special, befor......

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Categories: arabesques, dance, high school, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tango Innuendo
...I’m ready for investing in some ballroom real estate. The music starts at nine o’clock; we’ll get there half past eight. Be sure to wear your sexy dress. I’ll wear my sexy pants. The rooftop loung......

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Categories: arabesques, allegory, dance, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Dance of the Butterfly
...After the Occupational Therapist told me I’d never walk again (see my poem “What She Said”); I was in shock, but my being turned to my ballet days to recall when my legs were strong and I immediately......

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Categories: arabesques, butterfly, christian, dance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Freedom
...Freedom to: Play hopscotch between the puddles on a rainy day while adults turn a blind eye and smile. Play dress up and serve tea to invisible guests not caring if the neighbors find you a bit......

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Categories: arabesques, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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