Best Enclosures Poems

MY ROOM OF LIFE

        Devotion, Diligence, Activity and Competence
        form the...

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Zebras are stripy I’m sure you can see,
Yaks chewing cud as slow as can be, 
X-ray tetra in the aquarium are seen,
Warthogs with curly, white...

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for my ever so intelligent, beautiful granddaughter, Juliette

Waking in the garden, 
she was the lone bloomer out today-
Peeking from behind her petals, 
she saw a...

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Casualties of an enforced lifestyle shiver in the breeze
Along the rugged roads of old dust and ditches that divide
Rest a group of modest enclosures they...

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Let love fly
-
With ethereal compassion, a soft glow in her eyes,
she picks up the baby eagle, tries to convey words
of eloquent reassurance, sincerely she tries.

Look,...

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"Purple Heart"



We are watched
surrounded by 
a great cloud 
of witnesses
the race marked
out for us
our days 
we count 
as numbers 
hidden within 
our flimsy armour
our transgressions
softened...

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The Puggily Smidgeburner and the Prettisome Guru
embark on finding Pug love at the town's rare breeds zoo 
The guru’s desperately trying to find sad Puggily...

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Spring was here 
The dark skies opened
Its canopy for pristine clouds 
To crown the blue mountains
I opened the windows 
To breathe in its freshness
Smiled at...

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My Response To Rumi

A composite man was this Rumi Mystic who penned ‘Spiritual Couplets’ thousands
          ...

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Why to die before your death
Indulging in consolations
An aim not for murdered self
Plunging into lifeless entity.

Overwhelming desire cast in situ
Superlative indulgence in fine state
A thunderous...

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When I tread in a lone world
Lost in a cloud of misery
My thoughts wax into
Looming mountains
In an intolerant world.
The eyes dust away
The silvern reel unrolled
Scalloping...

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Spiral carved spheres on long green stems
            brimming with redness
Fiery egos afloat in spring...

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Is so spectacular.
They're man made places
To show us how aquatic
Things live underwater.
The huge water filled enclosures
Are decorated spaces
For each inhabitant
Which makes them unique
And hospitable.
Children are...

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Poetry Soup friends are rare, yet precious treasures
Offering kindred bond beyond poetic measures
Empowering communication prowess midst word-usage pressures
Tending to souls with every remarkable message that...

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One day not so long ago 
I walked
Never alone
For the world 
Is always my home

It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To...

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