Stelliferous
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Stelliferous the stars o’erspread
that lace the heavens overhead
and sparkle plentifully bright
to grace the atramental night
when face of lumined sol has fled.
Sidereals the skies embed...
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Categories:
bejeweling, imagery, imagination, poets, sky,
Form: Rondeau
Tangerine Trees And Marmalade Skies
...An enigma
wrapped in mystery
covered in secrets
risking hell
A legend
from the ages
bereft of sages
casting spells
The message
nondescriptive
in ephemera
laden tongues
Lucy in the sky
be...
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Categories:
bejeweling, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Zen Death Haiku Iv
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU IV
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
The moon
hovering above the snow-capped mountains
rained down hailstones
—Sekitei Hara, loose transl...
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Categories:
bejeweling, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku
Ryokan Translations of Zen Death Haiku
...Ryokan translations of Zen Death Haiku and other Poems
First one hidden face is revealed,
then the other; thus spinning it falls,
the autumn leaf.
—Ryokan (1758-1831), loose translation by Mich...
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Categories:
bejeweling, art, death, earth, flower,
Form: Haiku
Purple Peaks
...The sunset tints the mountain's purple peaks,
painting frescos on alabaster snow.
And bleeding scarlet into trickling creeks,
Nature surpasses Michelangelo.
Shadows scurry to merge with...
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Categories:
bejeweling, 10th grade, beauty, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Diamond Or Diamante of Love
...Bedazzling,
Bejeweling,
Moonlit
Diamond of love
Recovered and
Discovered in the
Midst of intensely
Passion,
Discerned as real
In the glow of the
Beginning hours of our relationship,
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Categories:
bejeweling, love,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost Dance Part IV
...IV
The Holiest Dance
Come out and dance, children of the New World.
Come out brothers, sisters, old and young.
Come dance and call back your dead.
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Categories:
bejeweling, conflict, dance, history, native
Form: Free verse
For the Birds I
...After mid morning coffee
will stretch out to the store
My piano to fetch
spread my fingers by a fine degree
You're invited to bow a little
for today all honour must go to the birds
It wi...
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Categories:
bejeweling, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Verse
Billy Buttons
...Billy Buttons
under the
Celery Pines
free verse
Billy Button's downy foliage
Burst open with large gold blooms.
Midst thousands of dandelion's green
Above, celery pines tip thei...
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Categories:
bejeweling, mother, naturenature, nature,
Form: Free verse
Disconnected
...Disconnection dissects her dawdling brain;
Isolated from the world around her she stands alone,
A solitary tear bejeweling her translucent skin
She doesn’t reach up to brush it away
Instead she...
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Categories:
bejeweling, angst, depression
Form: Free verse