Summer Perdition
...after 'Berck-Plage' by Sylvia Plath
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A sheet of glass, this expanse of water.
How its tranquillity mocks my unrest.
Bloated beachballs and balloons
travel the park and...
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Categories:
bergamot, abortion, loss, summer,
Form: Free verse
Color My Small World -
...Color my small world -
Oh, fair Yeshua -
With a streak of globe mallow
Inside a rocky draw
And the morning calm
Of bergamot and lupine -
So I can stop time
And set my gaze upon t...
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Categories:
bergamot, christian, flower, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Earl Grey
...A cup of tea is what I need to start off each and every day
and if that tea is going to get me through then it must be Earl Grey
I am not quite sure what it is about that exact type of tea
is t...
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Categories:
bergamot, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Vision
...Her shadow pierces the verdant threads
Secluded within the expanse of changing seasons
Existing within the swaying breeze that trickles
Crimson sparks flicker like fireflies along the winding rip...
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Categories:
bergamot, beach, beautiful, color, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Odyssey Scope
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Written: December 28, 2023
Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with
Calyx e...
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Categories:
bergamot, analogy, angel, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Stirring My Afternoon Tea
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Sitting here stirring my afternoon tea. Earl Grey is my favourite, so that it must be.
With the fragrance of Bergamot filling the air, recollections at Grandma's house take me right there.
She'...
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Categories:
bergamot, drink, grandmother, memory,
Form: Rhyme
IT IS TIME FOR TEA
...Suspense creeps in with tea and crumpets, dear,
And murder, mayhem, chaos, stirred right in
—Poet Stirring Up Suspense
IT IS TIME FOR TEA
It is time for tea, a giddy...
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Categories:
bergamot, christmas, drink,
Form: Rhyme
earl grey tea
...
in this cup is earl grey
joyful tea passion play
bergamot wish
taste nevermiss
quenching bliss lasts all day.
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Categories:
bergamot, autumn, cheer up, cute,
Form: Limerick
Not Just Another Walk In the Park
...NOT JUST ANOTHER WALK IN THE PARK
After biscuits for breakfast at Mama’s Boy…an Athens, Georgia landmark
we decided to walk off our calories with a stroll through Dudley Park.
Dudley Park is a...
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Categories:
bergamot, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Simple Pleasure
...A Simple Pleasure
A simple pleasure in simple lines
Frosty mornings, that wear fuzzy slippers,
Bundled against the dawning amber chill
To watch the early robins through misted windows
With ...
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Categories:
bergamot, happiness, joy, peace,
Form: Free verse
Aged Hands
...She waits with her aged, folded hands
Hands with deep veins and those age spots
Hands that picked and shelled beans so grand
After her trips to garden plots
Where the sun...
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Categories:
bergamot, life,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Tea Party Quandary
...Tea kettle steam and curtseys greet queenly company.
"Quaint" dainty danishes are dazzlingly displayed
with quintessential utensils and dishes.
Stenciled place cards display exclusive names.
Resp...
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Categories:
bergamot, beautiful, food, friendship, fun,
Form: Alliteration
Volupte Mysterie
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"Volupte Mysterie"
Fallen and risen
the volupte She ...
considers
Her gods
are found
sore and wanting
a new life
breathing in
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Categories:
bergamot, dark, fantasy, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight
...The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight
Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;
In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints j...
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Categories:
bergamot, america, food, international,
Form: Verse
Dans Le Heure Bleue
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“dans le heure bleue"
My skin feels alive
when you are
next to me
blood pulsing
from the core
of me
Root Chakra Red
My throat exposed
th...
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Categories:
bergamot, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
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