Peace Holds Trouble At Woman's Subtle Cheek
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Peace holds trouble at woman's subtle cheek:
Pale, inviting and warm enough to kiss
Attentively with regards, seeming freak.
Shielded close to her open lips, eyes seek
Patiently... so moment ...
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Categories:
bespeak, 1st grade, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Villanelle
How Still The Waters Rage
...How still the waters rage
In stillnesses of day
Moving tranquil on their way
Across the placid page,
While simmering beneath
In silent, stormy stare
The torrent underneath
In boiling cauldron ...
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Categories:
bespeak, water, words,
Form: Sonnet
Love Glimmer -
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I've been listening to your eyes
for what feels like eons,
noticing how the rain cries
unto your purposeful lips,
excited also, by the sounds of your
beautiful breaths in the smooth sunlight,...
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Categories:
bespeak, longing, love,
Form: Epic
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
...The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my ...
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Categories:
bespeak, adventure, appreciation, august, cool,
Form: Free verse
Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood Revised
...James Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like ...
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Categories:
bespeak, appreciation, literature,
Form: Verse
Our Border Is a Complete Disaster
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Our Border Is A Complete Disaster
Miracle Man
September 19, 2023
Each day that passes brings this country more grief,
and migrants coming illegally will be allowed to stay.
From this...
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Categories:
bespeak, feelings, people, society,
Form: Quatrain
Oh Hate Hateful, Hate
...Hate, hateful hate, how doth thy poison spread
A venomous fang within the human heart
That doth darken all thoughts of light instead
And tears friends and lovers far apart.
Thou art a curse, a ...
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Categories:
bespeak, anger,
Form: Ekphrasis
In Realm of Love
...In realm of love, you are the awe of mystique~
Musings of smitten soul, passions bespeak,
When glances romantic lure enamored night
To dance of fantasies moonlit revelries ignite
Waltzing with st...
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Categories:
bespeak, love,
Form: Rhyme
Our Prayer
...Dear Lord, the Giver of excess
We invoked your name at the start of this assembly
We have sailed safely to the shore of the meeting
We have poured our thoughts as unqualified mortals
Seeking to b...
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Categories:
bespeak, prayer, religious,
Form: Free verse
What If I Die
...What If I Die?
Will the world be upside down?
Will the stars stop moving around?
Will u have an intransient hollow?
Will it be difficult for you to swallow?
Not ,as I think so deep .
Sure...
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Categories:
bespeak, death, deep, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Why
...a heart …
is meant for a
far better habitation -
for a chest
that garners gold
and laurels …
and a coursing
of benevolence and bounty,
not blight …
so why?
perhaps it thrums
to weed the w...
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Categories:
bespeak, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Spring Brings Fairies
...Silent all winter the stone bird bath
frozen in time. Autumn debris covered
where in spring
a fountain of daffodils erupt….
Between carpets of velvet moss- hushed breath
purple faces of mini Ir...
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Categories:
bespeak, daffodils, fairy, flower, spring,
Form: Free verse
Winter Quintain
...Across the Heath the chill'ed land’s in sleep
The Bushes hunched, the bare trees holding still
In cyclic pattern: seasons’ lives bespeak
Not grip of death but life's farseeing will
That shall rev...
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Categories:
bespeak, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
In My Power
...In My Power (For the survivors of the tornados in America)
If it were in my power, I would be there
To put back together all the jigsaw parts
The myriad fragments of your shattered towns
And pi...
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Categories:
bespeak, community, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Purpose
...Purpose
By Sy Roth
Woke this morning to a sodden sky
Stretched to the limit of my arms
And could hear the crack of my back and the crick in my neck
To bespeak an existence.
I think.
Mean...
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Categories:
bespeak, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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