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Premium Member Holly Tree And The Robin - Anacreontic couplets
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Categories: holly, nature, winter,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: holly, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: holly, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Holly's Christmas Story
Our sweet dog Holly lies under our tree
She is wagging her tail so gleefully,

Knocking about the light Christmas tree balls.
She becomes quite shocked as one...

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Categories: holly, adventure, christmas, dog, snow,
Form: Couplet
Winter's Song
Autumn dripping leaves of weary gold
Exits quietly, fading through the trees.
Hawthorn shakes her cloak of ruby fire.
Naked to the woods and twisting breeze.
 
Winter’s breath...

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Categories: holly, fantasy, imagination, nature, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Little Ol' Me
I wish I could write
like those others before me,
Byron and Shelley and old Edgar Poe

Flowery phrases
Thy love unforgetting,
chasing a raven as ink tends to flow

Follow...

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Categories: holly, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: holly, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Joy of Christmas
Joy of Christmas tolls hooray, buoying elation of Santa’s sleigh
As celebrating the birth of almighty sacred church bells ring
Reverberating in melodic music ~ chiming, jingling...

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Categories: holly, celebration, christmas,
Form: Villanelle
The Christmas Gift
Another Christmas season has arrived, at last
  and like so many others from Yuletides past,
    I'm glad some things have remained...

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Categories: holly, christmas, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Universal Holidays
Never had a Christmas tree
  or some mistletoe
No wreath of holly on my door
  just a mezuzah there, you know

No stockings stuffed with...

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Categories: holly, appreciation, chanukah, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
The Time of the Summer Solstice
The Time of the Summer Solstice
 
Drums pulsing solemnly presage the break of dawn,
bonfires ablaze dot this auspicious June morn.
On the shores of Albion, Druid...

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Categories: holly, celebration, religion, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flower Girls
A is for Annie Apple Blossom she buds in the Spring. 
B is Betty Baby Breath she's such a dainty thing.

C is for Miss Candy...

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Categories: holly, daughter, easter, little sister,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Visit From Santa Claus
It was Christmas Eve, not a soul made a sound,
And not so much as a mouse could be found,
The children had hung their stockings on...

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Categories: holly, christmas, eve, fantasy, holiday,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Blessed Outcomes
Decades of mystic dreamers have worn the path
trod across the leys, coupling pairs within Stonehenge.
Beneath the Wiltshire skies cornflower blue; they lust,
lotus-eaters, loose-limbed, seeking a...

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Categories: holly, desire, devotion, love, mythology,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Categories: holly, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form: Rhyme

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