Summer Assonance Poems

There is an illusion of dishonesty in darkness,
so we rejoice when spring sings saccharine serenades.
I've always been a soul yearning for summer scents,
but somewhere the...

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"If you're really in love, appearances aren't important. The best house is the one you build in each other's hearts."
Jung Yu jin

Autumn's alliterations amplified an...

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Pouring..out a melody as the street scene; is cascading such harmony.!
Evangalists and market stalls; woodwind plus.' A rhapsody calls)
Two shining eyes, much fluid form; the...

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Like a head without a face
A heart without a beat,
Moon without light
Summer without sun
World without humans
Love without gifts,
Faith without belief
Work without play
Family without love
Sight without...

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Seven Revelations Born From Early Morn's Poetic Thoughts


Life Moving Ever Onward

one broken gold band
empty house, new motorcycle
fast flowing river

Robert J. Lindley, 9-29-2021
haiku


Real, Imagined And Appreciated

dreams...

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A good night's sleep won’t erase scars.
Open the covers, let the morning in.
Purple behind your eyelids.
Sleep with some paralysis.

Lighten up, buttercup!
New day, fresh start.
Icicles on...

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7/25/21. Hope Cycle

Grief, like Love, is a seasonal thing.
It comes and seems to last forever,
Driving its tentacles deeper
Than it seems possible to penetrate;
Forcing the oozing...

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life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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When at night I close my eyes,
to think all the days gone by,
to feel again those passions past,
and feeble joy that never lasts,

I'm always drawn...

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Hunting for treasure poems;
Midst summer morn~
I am adrift in the wilderness.


All of a sudden~
a European euphony soars
like a midnight sonata
in pianissimo and decrescendo.

I run to...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8BaGbOoL8




Oh sweet, sweet, dance of summer you are here at last
yes I would like to climb to the top of your  hill 
There you...

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Music by: Tim Nast 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ubQgJoayY

A flower dances in the sunlight close to me 
with with every breath I take, a tendril petal falls 
across the...

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The Bermuda dried to brown
and the dust bred
with the dead
heat of summer
falling
all around
enclosing me in its slumber
encasing me in its fate
and glad that I had
found
my...

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When at night I close my eyes,
to think all the days gone by,
to feel again those passions past,
and feeble joy that never lasts,

I'm always drawn...

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FEAR


WHAT SCARES ME
FROM AS FAR BACK AS I COULD DREAM
THIS IS WHAT Fear has done to me
This is a verse, bout’ what is cursed..
What scares...

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