Museum of my Mind
...I would make a museum of my mind
Fill these musty halls with all my people
Every girl who has walked my corridors
To write her piece and paste it on the walls.
Every plaque together, a mosaic...
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Categories:
ballrooms, me, self,
Form: Free verse
I have seen falling stars in the eyes of shadows
...I have seen falling stars in the eyes of shadows,
dancing on the dark sky of unspoken words.
I have stood in ballrooms filled with sculpted smiles,
hiding glass daggers in velvet pockets.
I have ...
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Categories:
ballrooms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Once 'pon a poetess
...Tuesday, 12:00 am
Tonight t'was the stars
I'll cascade a memorizing moon
Glimmering sanctified silence
along with
trickling twilight for
iconoclast in...
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Categories:
ballrooms, devotion, introspection, journey, passion,
Form: Imagism
When Summer Is Gone
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Alas, my dear, we must away!
From Summer homes upon the Bay.
To winter in our warmer nests,
In Southern climes, which suit us best.
Your sister's grand debut went swell!
Gentleme...
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Categories:
ballrooms, family, fashion, jealousy, little
Form: Free verse
Culture Clash
...I was a college music teacher, engaged in pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody,
As lavish planets dance around a golden star, with the zeal of fuchsia fidelity.
I taught harmony, vocals and si...
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Categories:
ballrooms, beauty, dance, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Joy of Blooms
...A season filled with the joy of blooms
Dance of the daffodils adorned in gold
Fragrance of lilac soon takes hold
Nature displays its colorful costumes
The garden is filled with flowery per...
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Categories:
ballrooms, dance, spring,
Form: Rhyme
The Fine Art of Life
...Champagne and wine
Elixirs of the elite's delight
beverages of the upper classes
as they rendezvous and converse
amid soirées decked in elegance
mingling among their
latest art acquisitions
...
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Categories:
ballrooms, appreciation, art, imagery, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
ballrooms, boat, death, people, travel,
Form: Shape
Shape-Shifting Writers
...As a writer
You can be anything your heart desires
take any shape size or form
as you please
Infinite possibilities of all you can be and do
With paint and a brush you can be Picasso
you can b...
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Categories:
ballrooms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Where the Fairies Live
...At the top of a very long, high hill
Stands a magnificent magnolia tree,
From which a sound most shrill
Calls to mind a charming fantasy.
It is said fairies live in the blooms
Those ...
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Categories:
ballrooms, fairy, fantasy, home, tree,
Form: Rhyme
A Tide of Crescendos and Trills
...Precision scales of a Bach concerto
relentless tide of crescendos and trills
Waves of emotion engulf my soul
pianissimo's delicate fingers stroll
Mozart sonatas and waltzes I hear
Grand ...
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Categories:
ballrooms, inspirational, music, society, today,
Form: Couplet
Ballroom Backgrounds
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backgrounds
b e c o m e
ballrooms
7-13-2021
The Brevette, created by Emily Romano consists of a subject (noun), verb, and object (noun), in this exact ord...
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Categories:
ballrooms, adventure, books, dream, journey,
Form: Verse
Embers
...Intuition flares,
prancing in ostentatious circles,
feather-tip proud.
Lugubrious grey wigs
speckle gregariously
bedecked by flamboyant gems:
they flicker frustratingly
in stifled Regency bal...
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Categories:
ballrooms, appreciation, creation, gender, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Woman In Chains
...Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of a s...
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Categories:
ballrooms, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Dance of Death
...The dragon dance of death,
Born in silent Wuhan
Round and round far it goes,
Filling ballrooms of Rome
Hip Hop, Tap, Rock and Roll
Taking breaths of poor souls
Healthy youth fit to dance,
S...
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Categories:
ballrooms, dance, death,
Form: Alexandrine
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