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My Mother.
She was the proudest of birds
Her nest was made of woven gold with silver embroidery
Her two little eggs polished to reflect the mother's loving smile
And guardian over this lavish nest, a warrior bird with razor sharp talons,

But she was proudest most of her plume
Wild and...

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Categories: hostaged, family, motherworld,
Form: Free verse
Caramel Sky From Inverse Pole
Two heads live in hot and cold
Caramel sky melts, defy the horizon to sleep
Grass swings in melody of wind, yet, forbearing to hear a story of inverse pole

Through some scenery, we try to dip
My days hostaged by summer and heat
The caramel sky melts, defy the...

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Categories: hostaged, friendship, weather,
Form: Terzanelle
Thoughts On Poetry
If I write a poem that doesn't quite meet your criteria,
or the title or topic fails to peek your interest or your liking,
or the content doesn't flow in your preferred display and meter,
does that make it distasteful or worse, irrelevant?

These ramblings on life, love, sadness,...

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Categories: hostaged, poems, poetry, writing,
Form: Quatrain

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