Best Geckos Poems

...STARS & STRIPES 
I know the Treasures held by the snow
I know pleasures unknown
And the measure of the shadows below.
They said Look what you've become.
Red, I replied I know. I've grown numb.
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“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its ......

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...“Chameleons”

Chameleons
many shades 
of blue 

pretty beautiful
things given time
change their colours

not so 
delphinium
belladonna blue

Blue sky 
hypnotises
blooms 

face to th......

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...Soft as quicksand is the ground beneath the feet
   of those whose words attempt to rile and defeat

Thrown stones cause few ripples before they sink
   Crass sycophants fill their pens with deli......

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...Written: October 30, 2023, For Eve Roper Nursery Rhyme
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Where joyful colors and lively settings rule.
In which ideas run wi......

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"Light Kissed"


Light kissed her through the veil
Come tempest on the beach of morning sun
With Gold on your naked feet
Life has again for you be......

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I: Sheep
 (A poem about Covid)

next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.

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...Although most pets are cuddly and furry
Like playful pups and kittens furry
     My choice of pet may astound
     Not many of these around
But this one needs little care or worry

At the risk ......

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...Mountain doves coo as Apollo wakes peering
Over the Koolau ridge still dark with sultry shadows.
Sunbeams glisten on soft grey and white feathers
As the happy pair take flight in unison to tree tops.......

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...
"Psychobabble"
 


She plants the seeds
in Her mind 
through the 
fathomless
oceanful wells
of Her eyes
saltwater falls
over the unchartered
sharp edges of 
Her tig......

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...invigorating
sun-drenched green awakening-
scampering geckos


3/27/2019


Poetry Contest: Spring Explosion Haiku  
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy......

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...CIRCLE OF LOVE 


Time in Space
Moments and Seconds
all in a row
Days and nights
all in a row
Years, decades, centuries
Milleniums
all in a row
Side by Side
calm eternity
Sparkling joy
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Oh awesome, sweet garden, how happy you make me,
When I have breakfast on our patio and absorb you with glee,	
Mid-morning comes in a flash with a fleeting cup of coffee,
Then lunch, have a qu......

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...Is there anything more satisfying
Than a bowl of veggie soup
From the famous Campbell's kitchens
That nobody else can dupe!

It's probably not smart to have some
Two or three times a day
But ......

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...Reading diaries of different discussion blots is considered to be akin to perusing the top shelf of a historical library section. Each label once worn drops like stones sinking into the carpet and cr......

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