Hillary Hears a Who!
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Hillary Hears a Who!
Who is an Amma slam?
One who Gives a Damn,
Just ask Melli,
Or Will, Sam or Ellie,
Our Hill who’s True Blue not Glam!
Who has a swell Quill?
Arrows that instill...
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Categories:
armfuls, birthday, sister,
Form: Limerick
A Thousand-Year Longing
...Crunching the frozen ground beneath my feet,
I wade through snow, soft and white, endlessly deep.
The golden sun reflects on this snowy embrace,
And armfuls of joy fill my gaze with grace.
The ...
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Categories:
armfuls, sky, snow, sun,
Form: Couplet
Dandelion Wine
...A symphony of joy raced through the
Hospital hallway
Mom in a wheelchair holding her first daughter Born after 2 boys!
Dad alongside grinning like he struck gold!
Driving home!
Just minut...
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Categories:
armfuls, pride,
Form: Narrative
Conkers, Bonkers
...Off us two went, beneath the trees,
that crackled and snappled
in Autumn’s crisp breeze,
our wellies slish-sloshing through the pelting rain,
plip-plopping, plip-plopping
again and again.
The...
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Categories:
armfuls, autumn, childhood, earth, friend,
Form: Light Verse
Bomb-Song
...They taught us what to do if there's a bomb.
A big bomb.
A bomb they removed in a biopsy on a God
A big God
Scooped it out in armfuls from the body of a God
My God the blood hanging on the tress...
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Categories:
armfuls, conflict, death, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Dear Valentine
...No lavish gifts have I today,
To try and coax your heart to sway,
No chocolate treats, or blood red rose,
No gentle kiss to curl your toes,
But I thought of you and penned a poem,
With dreams of...
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Categories:
armfuls, love, valentines day,
Form: Couplet
Swifts
...I saw the swifts again today,
High on the wing and weaving the crags to the clouds.
I watched them last from my Fall lawn,
Flickering between fantasy and truth,
And whistling their secrets to t...
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Categories:
armfuls, animal, inspirational, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Seven Things
...I must think fast. My house is on fire and I'll have 16 minutes at the most
to decide what I will save!
For sure, I will rescue the computer, or the flash drive at the very least.That is number o...
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Categories:
armfuls, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
Parkinson's Will Not Define Me
...On that fateful day in August arriving late, so unusual for me
For I am always early; did I know deep down what the verdict would be
As soon as I walked through that door, the neurologist told me m...
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Categories:
armfuls, anger, angst, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Fall
...B ecoming attuned to autumn.
E venings no longer taking a stretch.
A ware of a darker veil at morning.
U shered in by autumn's breath.
T he low light at evening is softer.
I meander winding wood...
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Categories:
armfuls, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Udelnaya Market 6:30 Pm
...UDELNAYA MARKET 6:30 PM
6 30 and not yet all gone -
Shadows lengthening,
Suns light in eyes, still
Difficult to see the end .
Flowers of the day now dried petals,
Empty boxes, blowing ...
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Categories:
armfuls, flower, introspection, life, sunset,
Form: Imagism
Meadow Girl
...MEADOW GIRL
She is my bluebell meadow
Want to gather her up in armfuls
But not to spoil her delicate composition...
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Categories:
armfuls, daughter, flower, nature,
Form: Personification
Scent of Hope
...Your love is like a swift sweet scent of hope
that fell quickly on an unsuspecting heart.
It’s a blessing, a shining brighter scope
with armfuls of devotion to impart.
2/13/18
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Categories:
armfuls, love, tribute, valentines day,
Form: Quatrain
Fire Bundle
...Together we each
walked the forests
of our interiors...
Collecting armfuls,
chestfulls of
broken bits.
A bundle of sorrow,
a *** of frustrations.
The combustible shrapnel
of having been hop...
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Categories:
armfuls, fire, love, smile, trust,
Form: Free verse
Healing Scent of Fresh Lilacs
......the way flight begins in the heart
Martin Steingesser
Stopping by the side of the road
I snap off armfuls of fresh lilacs
blooming in the universe,
a champ...
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Categories:
armfuls, heart,
Form: Free verse
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