Best Dells Poems
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ......
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Categories:
dells, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
primeval -
...
oh wrap me close dear jungle deep, with fronds and fruits entwined
and hold me to your ancient emerald breast -
I long to hear those thrums within, the pulse of thickets vined
......
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Categories:
dells, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Echo
...The lonely Echo lives in caves,
doomed to repeat her voice.
How sad it is she cannot speak,
but this was not by choice.
Once long ago in wooded hills,
gods cursed her chatty tongue
so she co......
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Categories:
dells, lost lovewords, love,
Form:
Quatrain
A Meadow's Sigh
...The meadow’s breath a gift to all, the mist, the morning dew,
a silent sigh, a heartfelt call, a prayer to me and you.
Green and warm, full of life, the forest's skirt, the Maid's delight,
where......
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Categories:
dells, animals, life, loss, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Lily Bells
...How rainbows covet lily bells
that chime the dulcet birth of May
with murmured notes in fay pastels.
How rainbows covet lily bells,
mellifluous in shaded dells,
to mime in tranquil bloom manq......
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Categories:
dells, color, flower, image,
Form:
Triolet
Christmas Joy
...Christmas fun
Angel wings
Snow in Sun
Sleighs on dells
Joyful things
Tinkling bells
My heart swells
The choir sings
Love here dwells
12-28-19......
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Categories:
dells, christmas, heart, joy, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
''Being Bipolar Is Like a Rose'': a Sequence of Tankas
...I.
Being bipolar
is like a Rose whose bloom is
missing some petals:
but her color is deeper
than all the other roses.
II.
She may never be
part of a "perfect" bouquet:
but her rich pigm......
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Categories:
dells, depression, hope, metaphor, rose,
Form:
Tanka
My Thanks To You
...MY THANKS TO YOU
The Clouds
The Dells
The Fields
The Streams
The Valleys
The Wildflowers
The Seas
The Dreams
The Meadows
And the Sun rise too
Our Families
Our Friends
Are all Gifts
......
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Categories:
dells, devotion, thank you
Form:
Rhyme
Haunted Highlands
...Deep within the highland mists, white heather, bright adorning,
I last beheld those flaring eyes, though tender as the borning.
I'd gone a-hiking, early snow, 'midst headland slopes and fell......
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Categories:
dells, fantasy, passion, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Beauty
...There's beauty all around us,
In the trees, the flowers, the air,
And it quietly surrounds us,
If we'll make ourselves aware.
We only have to look and see,
For God has placed it there,
A quie......
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Categories:
dells, blessing,
Form:
Quatrain
High Country Vale
...Lush vales wedged between rolling foot hills
rugged mountain streams course through ancient vales;
water rapids breach rocks down on the dells,
vagrant pools wander out through worn edges.
Vivi......
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Categories:
dells, nature
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Midnight Rule
...The cold seeps in as fingers shake
The twilight comes and lights forsake
A star so distant, chill and fair
Resplendent beauty shining there
A silent creeping evil dwells
Within the long-abando......
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Categories:
dells, dark, fear, wind, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hacker
...The Hacker
Vodka
Used Dells and HP notebooks
Routers and switches
Gateways and sniffers
Kvm boxes and multi real-time data shows
My booty is plenty
No one knows the white mask of mist
T......
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Categories:
dells, art, crazy, love, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
...
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
una......
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Categories:
dells, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Nature's Overalls Overall
...In the West it seems frost and jingle bells
In the East its now the hot sunshiny spells
Yet the dells look fabulous
whether quilted in snow
or bright green carpets
Nature can be spicy hot or ici......
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Categories:
dells, beauty, science,
Form:
Verse