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Premium Member May the Band Begin the Beguine
There seem so many adventures in far exotic places,
When romancers enjoy serenity and moments so sweet.
Their hearts swoon with greenery’s fragrant traces
And romantic  expressions...

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Categories: beguine, dance, happiness, hope, love,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member The Beguine
When they begin the beguine, better be ready
 When I begin the beguine, might be a bit unsteady
Used to be a fancy dancer
A little practice...

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Categories: beguine, dance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tonight I Went Out Swinging For the Very First Time
Tonight I went out Swinging for the very first time
Now the title has grabbed your attention – I hope you will read my rhyme!

Tonight I...

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Categories: beguine, humorous, music, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Put On a Happy Face
Put on a happy face
when I release taut fingers 
from your pallid cheeks.
Promises and empty lies 
are sported clichés
that spoil a silenced vocabulary.
A quieted understanding...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beguine, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Can-Can
“what inspires you to write
such indiscriminate indiscretions
like that?” he speaks to himself 
and thinks 

not long 
without thinking,
unnaturally he feels,
something, so
 
he promptly writes 
it...

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Categories: beguine, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Announcement Prayerful and Frolicsomely Playful: Or, a Canticle I Think I'Ll Be
A canticle I think I'll be, 
A rimed thought, hoary and ancient, 
Stinking as the dust heaped up empyreal on the hills of 
The Judean...

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Categories: beguine, absence, adventure, allegory, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Fool's Gold
Fools Gold

Dreaming of a precious gold
That I had never seen
I met you and I knew at once
I found the answer to my dream
Resplendent in her...

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Categories: beguine, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goo-Goo Poo-Poo
"Modern physics made a wrong turn at the three dimensions."
-- Newtonian physics grounded outside the Twilight Zone

*   *   * 

I bent...

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Categories: beguine, pain,
Form: Rhyme
April 1 Is One
APril 1 is ONe  

 April Fools Day time for National Poetry Month to begin the beguine

APril 1 is ONe

 

Lieberry Dissertation

 

APril 1...

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Categories: beguine, anniversary, life, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Johannes Vermeer a Trio of His Girls
VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time...

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Categories: beguine, art, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Veemeer Ekphrasis Sequence C
VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
 

see vermeersgirls@blogspot.com...

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Categories: beguine, art
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Space Cadet --
A Waste of Space

"For countless romantics, outer space is another of life's great mysteries --
each having flunked basic physics
(in addition to skipping each astronomy class)."
--...

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Categories: beguine, pain,
Form: Rhyme
A La Ris De Ne Mis
Fle sa me tis


Of the smile rise
Of all our little misses in TX & txt
For her we enter

(Beyond dragons for snakes got wings like we...

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Categories: beguine, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Shape
The Music Just Never Stops
And he dragged her to the floor  
to Porter's 'Begin The Beguine‘,
swaying to the sultry rhythm
without missing a beat.
  
As the orchestra shifted...

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Categories: beguine, life, music, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystic Travelers
Gypsy temptress hips
visions of Dolmite maidens
Begin the Beguine...

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Categories: beguine, allusion, analogy, appreciation, eulogy,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things