White Wine And Feather Boa Dreams
...I wrap myself
in feather-boa-fantasies of his dreams
sinuous pinot-grigio-me;
X-rated and never sated
dancing to rock ‘n roll— 80’s dated
...my floorshow our foreplay
welcome to the conjuga...
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Categories:
aswirl, age, beauty, marriage, passion,
Form: Free verse
Displacement
...zephry wisps rising
eyelids flicker in soft breeze
gardenia aswirl
Howmanysyllables 5/7/5
group #2...
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Categories:
aswirl, nature, perspective,
Form: Haiku
She Dances
...She Dances...Come With Me
Her gliding translucence~heaven’s kiss
Leaping lightly aswirl in twilight’s sweet mist
Her sprite easy leap~grandious pirouette
Into the night she blends in a dar...
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Categories:
aswirl, beauty, dance,
Form: Verse
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
...I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your sigh aswirl -
a breeze I feel but cann...
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Categories:
aswirl, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Tinderbox
...Autumn's at the mercy of unscrupulous wildfire
A tornado igniting forest walls with leaves aswirl
Flames of colors rare radiant orange sapphire
On glowing wind-borne embers storm, they twirl
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Categories:
aswirl, fire,
Form: Sonnet
This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
...A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun would rise
the mist would l...
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Categories:
aswirl, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
My Winter's Wishes
...In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity
a l...
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Categories:
aswirl, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Begging
...Go away blue can
Go away cane
Come to us another time
Use another name
Are you fighting?
Are you bare?
If you don’t forget
Whoever will care?
Free from dross
Free from pain
All I ever wa...
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Categories:
aswirl, age, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Amidst the Darkened Veils
...'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in the ever d...
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Categories:
aswirl, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Tears
...I have often wondered when it comes to tears if I’m understanding them at all?
Is it brave to hold them back or more courageous to let them fall?
As we watch tragedies unfold in front of us…in ou...
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Categories:
aswirl, cry,
Form: Verse
Undetected Infinitesimal Changes
...No matter by
Adam and the Ants,
this inquisitive mind
doth wonder why
tis virtually imp
possible to envision
subatomic particles
that jockey and vie,
asper an...
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Categories:
aswirl, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ma Little Brown Chickadee
...(ah miss bing amiss with former mistress)
Oh Glenda (Miz Gee gee)
years elapsed since, I didst hawk
verboten fruit adrip
from yar verdant bough,
thy strong craven raven
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Categories:
aswirl, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Cosmological Fantastical Imemorial Lil Opus
...aswirl within tremendous maelstroms
universal united uninhabitable cauldron
tempered with analogous:
outrageous, portentous
thunderous cacophony in tandem
with thick mucilaginous fog
metaphor...
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Categories:
aswirl, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Dreams
...In the blank canvas of a room
Aswirl and pearled with long-clutched dreams,
Dreaming of the dream, dreams of the Great Path
Where lime juice tears from our eyes and the sun
Soft hug of skin remin...
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Categories:
aswirl, life, mystery
Form: Free verse
Yum Yum Girl
...Who said the sun rises in the East?
That's not true in the very least....
The Sun rises and sets in the West
Where does dwell the very best...
My Yum Yum girl
Sweeter than molasses
Shining and ...
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Categories:
aswirl, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, passion,
Form: Lyric
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