Love's Beating
...Soul of one's life, does it live to exist
Perhaps emotional wreck of many desires breath
Love, hate, judgement to feel as if thought
Undying voice controlling journey of life
You can not kill...
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Categories:
beading, character, deep, heart, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Misty Summer Dreams
...
sultry days, Summer sun
budding breasts, bikini
a pre-teen flower blooms
tan skin, baby oil shine
misty water beading
making sweet rainbow dreams
Some Kind O...
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Categories:
beading, beach, dream, girl, growing
Form: Free verse
Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R Burch
...This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane’s bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei ...
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Categories:
beading, flower, moon, nature, spring,
Form: Tanka
Why Don't You Stay
...You open your mouth and music happens.
Like talking became this melodic symphony of beats and rhythms.
Like the wire running the length of the microphone stand became a judicial right.
Every note,...
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Categories:
beading, music,
Form: Free verse
Clarion Sea
...Clarion calm sea
right before thunder;
A man wave boarding,
teens sit catching rays;
An emerald gleams;
No sweat beading
on my iced drink;
Time moves gently,
I am spellbound;
Waves fly ...
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Categories:
beading, emotions, nature, sea, storm,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Black as Monday
...
Tears fall, soundless memories, silent as dew,
Struggling from the morning’s gentle eyes, clawing
Through the promises, feelings blooming,
Like the blessings of roses, soft petals bathing
In ...
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Categories:
beading, appreciation, heart, journey,
Form: Free verse
Wisps Of Smoke Rings
...We were like smoke rings in the way that our bodies curled around one another, wisps of lovers' cries intermingled with the ecstasy we once discovered
We were all arms, legs, hands and fingertips, t...
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Categories:
beading, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Ella Fells A Fella
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Ella peripherals the scene,
instantly onboard. (A ship of fool.)
An onlooker, a poor dead-wood, looks, to be
particle_lurely bored.
Then another quip came to her
a...
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Categories:
beading, art,
Form: Narrative
Unspoken Echoes of Unrequited Love
...She Walks in, Beauty in motion, Bright as sunlight,
Melting in that smile, Drowning in those eyes
Falling, I might be, Thinking of no other, Waiting for the moment
Longing that this is real, Desp...
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Categories:
beading, love,
Form: Free verse
Lady Bug Water Drop Boogie
...Lady bug water drop boogie
Wha wha wha wha wha woogie
Sliding down the slick verdant fern
The little one yells “let me take a turn!”
Lady bug water drop boogie
Wha wha wha wha wha woogie
Bubb...
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Categories:
beading, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Run From a Sewing Machine
...The daughter of a professional seamstress, I am a tactile learner,
I have to feel the possible fabric to make a decision.
If it is rough like linen or denim, I am not a fan.
I like flowing soft, p...
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Categories:
beading, art,
Form: Narrative
Rain
...rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving
its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic,
a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags
hitting tree tops, branch...
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Categories:
beading, absence, bird, city, love,
Form: List
Sharing a Quilt While Reading
...Each tiny movement was a reminder of the share.
We had a bit of grandma’s warm quilt, chocolate in the air.
Mom’s making hot cocoa, I told my sis, with marshmallows I think.
We were happy to be he...
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Categories:
beading, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Calm Your Frayed Nerves
...Calm your frayed nerves, dry beading brow
You’ve reached the end, now time can cease
How we got here, don’t ask me how
Calm your frayed nerves, dry beading brow
Accomplished as much as days would...
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Categories:
beading, death, peace,
Form: Triolet
Guilty Fear
...Fermented in farenheit the sizzle is way too hot
Creeping up the backside beading up in that spot
Shallow is the pool of fear where the drips do lie
Bashful red is the color skin appearing shy
Sh...
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Categories:
beading, deep,
Form: Rhyme
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