Victorian Christmas Eve
...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh!
Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly!
The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound,
But a bla...
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Categories:
armloads, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Consciousness Correction
...Consciousness Correction – 11-20-23
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Consciousness Correction
Envy sneaks in unseen
A thief robbing light from my house of ...
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Categories:
armloads, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Potting Shed Catches Gossip
...Sunlight entered the aquamarine potting shed from the east
Beating the master gardener by a few minutes or steps
Ruffled marigold seeds were waiting to be planted in seedling trays
It was March th...
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Categories:
armloads, garden,
Form: Personification
Your Grave
...I've never yet become so brave
To come and visit at your grave
Though in times past sweet gifts
I brought, for you, for love,
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Categories:
armloads, death,
Form: Rhyme
Dripping With Love On Valentine's Day
...Mr. Langford owned a candy store that was slow all year round.
Except for Valentine's day when it was filled with spangled eyed lovers
coming in for sweets and armloads of red roses in the...
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Categories:
armloads, appreciation, love, magic,
Form: Haibun
Serenity Awakened
...Quote: Lend me your fire bring me your wings,
surround me and make me feel like I'm standing
on higher ground
Autumn scents, woodsy bark, frissons and joy
me a September baby, at you...
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Categories:
armloads, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Couplet
Limerick Contest
...A CLOSE SHAVE
Shel married a wife with armloads of fur.
He was very unkind, he did beat her.
Smothers - never quits.
Makes her shave her pits.
Smirking, she sharpens her ...
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Categories:
armloads, abuse, dark, humor, marriage,
Form: Limerick
It Takes Time To See the Light
...IT TAKES TIME TO SEE THE LIGHT
Death is best taught in the dark
Fetching sticks, setting sparks
Its bag of tricks: sickness and hope
A black curtain vanishes
The magician leaves you with a moo...
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Categories:
armloads, death,
Form: Didactic
Lost June
...The beauty I tell of them
Enjoying the smell of them,
Gathering armloads of roses
In the sweet month of June.
So late in December
It’s hard to remember
The love and the joy in
A June afterno...
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Categories:
armloads, june, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Victorian Christmas Eve
...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh.
Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly!
The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound,
But a bla...
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Categories:
armloads, childhood, family, holidayold, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Voyages In Blue
...Shoulders of lead
Toothpicks for lids
Iris in aqua
in sensory grids
Moments of hours
Breathing to spin
Voyage of brainwaves
to spiral me in
Black and white memories
airbrushed in blue
One o...
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Categories:
armloads, happiness, imagination, life, peace,
Form: Rhyme