Best Pendants Poems

Some poems are like pendants that go
With only particular sweaters
Or those works of art that
I tuck away in private pleasure.
The words don't come sometimes
But the...

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DERELICT BEAUTY


Below drape of cotton clouds and sunshine,
some red-purple live pendants 
embrace the tall breathless wall...
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Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi Contest
Name: Three Line Poetry
Placed 5th

O.E. Guillermo
6:24 pm,...

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Mom's jewelry box
black pearl ring, crystal bead necklace
sorority pin
gold pendants--more questions than
answers in velvet darkness...

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Earth is but a tiny speck of color, spinning round and round
orbiting the sun in the ebon universe without making a sound.
Come and lay beside...

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What is this flower perched like bird on stem
With tiny feathery florets in pews
Aligned along rows on cylinder heads?
Tis Banksia, native of Australia.

Named after botanist...

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Poem about beautiful sunsets and the journey of life.

Spent all day walking on the beautiful powdery white beach. Picking
up oceans treasures, scallop shells calico in...

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 exquisite droplets
pendants poised in sweet lament
tears of morning dew ...

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Native American Translations

Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk...

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Old jewelry box,
with grandma's pearls and pendants.
How, I love them still !
They wanted to bury her,
with the pearls-  but I hid them.

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May 25, 2016

Traditional...

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A snow bound silence descends now
upon my hallowed home,
the traffic's gone, the streets unplowed
and I'm engrossed in tomes.

A ribald tale of myst'ry roils
the knights have...

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Overflowing like the sparkling spring from acerbity,
 The emerald stones on the relieve peak
 Causing welling up like stormy waves,
 And breath taking halt, grunting
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swaying pendants says
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Mayan Poetry Translations

The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from a Mayan love poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the...

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green mango's bunches
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Paper-thin pendants green the earth
Enhancing everywhere exterior décor.
But that’s only a hint of their worth.
They are chemists, cleaners, and more.

Each is a veritable factory all...

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