Best Palisades Poems
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
...I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be free
beyond sadness, into a joyful sea
to a purple land, a paradise realm
I hopef......
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Categories:
palisades, appreciation, beauty, freedom, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
...A Search, A Quest For A Lost Paradise -
a collaboration with Susan Ashley
I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be fre......
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Categories:
palisades, art, beauty, color, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Sensitivity
...SENSITIVITY
They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black gravestone in New York, down in the world,
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of
The impressive strata at Pal......
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Categories:
palisades, funnynight, old, beach, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Pale Shelter
...I keep tripping over hurdles
Barriers forged between our hearts
Walls of a garrisoned fortress
Lofty palisades I must ascend
without crawling on my knees
I admit my faults lie at ego depth......
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Categories:
palisades, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Trojan Heart Part 2
...So it was that tragedy, which lead me finally,
Have another invasion, upon my lands-never,
To guard my boundaries, and bolster my army,
Let the pain in my heart, with cold fury- wither
The pet......
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Categories:
palisades, inspirational, introspection, lost love,
Form:
Palisades Park
...A rodent in the road
Jammed into my tires
As I screeched to a halt,
Then bolted past
Remembering a deer
In the headlights
A victim underneath me
Forever frozen in ice
And slo......
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Categories:
palisades, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Ash of War
...******This old post deserves another posting, I tried to convey the tragedy of war and is hauntingly reflecting of current world affairs; ...'Where once stood great Love' is my favourite line; the wo......
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Categories:
palisades, fate, loss, war,
Form:
Free verse
Rocknroll Oldies Narrative
...July 4, 1961
Well HELLO MARY LOU,
You won’t believe this but I just HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE that someone else was
getting a DOUBLE SHOT OF MY BABYS’ LOVE. Right now TIME WO......
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Categories:
palisades, nostalgia, satire, song-lyricdance, me,
Form:
Narrative
Snowless Winter Woods
...The oak trees are an endless sea of grey;
The waves roll over hills until they melt
Into a grey horizon under dim
Midwinter skies. The world is sepia toned;
The flowers in the glades no longer we......
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Categories:
palisades, nature, winter,
Form:
Blank verse
Singerisland
...A lovely walk, a promenade leads the way
Burnt orange succulents stand like bushes serene
Crushed tepid deep, whitewash stirs up behind the scenes
Delightful blends of blue sky in-between
Entwine......
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Categories:
palisades, beach, fun, summer, sunshine,
Form:
Abecedarian
Ebony and Ivory
...Entwined, in her vanilla cream rhymes..
Sitting amid the front row while she recited
A heartful verse feeling the vibes; her spirit alive
Blue roses atop the table a glass of champagne
Catching my ga......
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Categories:
palisades, beautiful, girl, love,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Witch Haiku
...SUMMER WITCH HAIKU
Husband bite your tongue.
Mother'n law comes visiting
threatens not to leave.
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BUCKS COUNTY P......
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Categories:
palisades, angst, anxiety, cheer up,
Form:
Haiku
Mountain Treasures
...lush slopes mirrored
round an islet of pines. . .
verdant bounty
where clear water
reflects the mountains’ splendor. . .
a lovers’ château
at the ridge's feet. . .
sunshine in guise
of ......
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Categories:
palisades, nature, daffodils,
Form:
Haiku
Dragonfly
...It always starts with a whisper.
A quite before the storm.
Building up to a rip, a fissure
then inside eruptions
kaleidoscoped palisades
divided by mirrors.
My eyes elope into one
that sees mu......
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Categories:
palisades, beauty, deep, fantasy, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
Madonna of the Rubble
...Forgetting is a vain refugee camp,
Madonna, for still these walls get
breached, amidst the daily, frenzied
barter of honed art for bread,
While slaking arid, thirsty hours with
......
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Categories:
palisades, loss, people, sympathy, war,
Form:
Blank verse