No Beating the Clock
...I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.
I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes,...
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Categories:
beribboned, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola...
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Categories:
beribboned, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Valentine
...On the night we first met, stars were shining bright
Somehow, I knew we'd become more than friends
I offered you a yellow rose in the glow of moonlight
while I was thinking, "I hope t...
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Categories:
beribboned, love, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Thoughts
...Boughs of evergreens grace mantles above fireplaces.
Children await Santa Claus with smiles on their faces.
Beribboned wreaths are hung on many a front door,
but to me the spirit of Christmas ...
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Categories:
beribboned, beautiful, christmas, poems,
Form: Rhyme
A Model For Our Times
...As the sun shone in southern skies, I was finally on my vacation,
And I turned the pages of a magazine, with new fashion creations.
I lounged beside the resort pool, in a straw hat and sunglasses...
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Categories:
beribboned, dream, fantasy, fashion, future,
Form: Couplet
Kidnapped By Aliens
...They had kept me imprisoned there for three full days,
In that sparse, solitary room, of scarce sunshine rays.
Having good food to eat, had never been a problem;
They brought hot meals, but the...
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Categories:
beribboned, adventure, earth, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Unsolicited feedback
across rock of ages woke
beguiling ghostly busty spectre
courtesy Marie-Antoinette,
(i.e. bride of France's arty choke
King Louis XVI) bespoke
let him eat cake, and (sic)...
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Categories:
beribboned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Recalling Traipsing Thru Valley Forge National Park Under Full Moon
...Lunar radiance this small hour
June fifteenth thousand and nineteen
(very early morning errand
to fuel 2009 Hyundai Sonata)
at Zieglerville, Pennsylvania Wawa
found gaze tugged toward
infinit...
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Categories:
beribboned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Confetti, a Devizes Wedding
...In Devizes, during Carnival, we have a Confetti Battle...
We dance in town, as bright confetti falls
Upon our hallowed ground, we move as one
The old and young among the market stalls
All bless...
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Categories:
beribboned, beauty, color, community, culture,
Form: Sonnet
Smoke and Roses Blow
...Beyond the veil where daylight fears to go
Behind a swathe of heavy silken mist
The heady scents of smoke and roses blow
Along the paths that secret lovers know
Are wood and blossom tangled in ...
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Categories:
beribboned, love, metaphor, mystery, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Refrain On the 6th
...Reflected in a silvered mirror lies a lustrous crystal bauble
Beguiling bribe veiled to eyes adrift in denial
Atonement for his guilty heart, a souvenir
of that marbleiz...
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Categories:
beribboned, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Favourite Flower
...(For a contest). Word Group 3.
Oh, a plane ticket to meet my one true love,
Plus a secret box, on the lid a dove,
Inlaid a jewelled masterpiece,
Fairies in each fleur-de-lis,
Blossoms of gauzy g...
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Categories:
beribboned, flower, garden, love,
Form: Free verse
The Flower
...Our garden's masterpiece,
Fairies in each fleur-de-lis,
Blossoms of gauzy glory,
Perennial veils of fairy stories,
Beribboned spangle treasury,
Fairies flitting so flowery,
Our queen of ruby ro...
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Categories:
beribboned, beautiful, beauty, blessing, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Remember Me - Queen Henrietta To Charles 1 -
...Good cheer, my love, as we venture forth
Over land and sea without recourse
Banished to rove us we three
No matter the tempest, remember me
As I was in our former life
In love promoting,you form...
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Categories:
beribboned, angst, business, character, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Older I Get the More I Want To Live
...At 76 I’m walking a shorter path and I’m not sure how I feel
However, I think an additional 100 years of life would be ideal
It would give me time and chances to take a shot at everything;
Run the...
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Categories:
beribboned, life, life, life, may,
Form: Rhyme
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