Best Citrine Poems

A citrine leaf in lingered lilt
did savor breeze of sapphire whisk
as Autumn’s honey-secrets spilt.
A hopscotch star.. an ember brisk,

she sighed and fell— then took her chance!
a citrine leaf in lingered lilt
with wind-a-whirl in saffron dance
below the western cirrus gilt.

Before the winds began to wilt
and aspen...

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My mother use to tell me that she had the ugliest color of birthstone, 
While she adored my month’s gem, an April beauty that was known.

I grew up thinking that November babies were particularly unlucky, 
Given how she had a vast indifference and beheld her...

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Written: March 27, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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graze remorse 
           by
    force of muse
          rhyming
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