At Last My Heart Sings
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At Last My Heart Sings
'Ere the sun sinks
And thy love falls endless
May this moment pause in beauty
To ponder thy kisses
My scarlet rose of love
Betake my spirit trul...
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Categories:
betake, beauty, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
At Last My Heart Sings
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'Ere the sun sinks
And thy love falls endless
May this moment pause in beauty
To ponder thy kisses
My scarlet rose of love
Betake my spirit truly
As twilight falls gently
At last my heart ...
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Categories:
betake, beautiful, dream, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Searching My Soul
...My soul seems to be hidden today.
Where can it conceal itself?
I thought it was always with me,
Roaming the endless paths
That clatter the corridors of my mind,
coursing through my arteries and ...
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Categories:
betake, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Magnification
...Close up,
Beautiful golds and yellows erupt,
As I look through the microscope,
Be careful on the stope,
Don't trip, or the fools will mistake,
And betake,
It's beautiful crystal formations,
A...
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Categories:
betake, science,
Form: Rhyme
Solitude and Silence Potd
...I sit under a large Nuttall oak
its leaves protect me from the sun.
Around me, lizards abound
as they scuttle in and around
the soap stones and other rocks.
Silence abounds except for the melo...
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Categories:
betake, feelings, love, silence,
Form: Free verse
I Relish Sparring Repartee of Clever Quips
...I relish sparring repartee of clever quips...
Particularly, when voicing and/or
writing bon mots doth betake
chuckling clownlike me
rumbled stilled skin,
and e'en rouses
this mummified corp...
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Categories:
betake, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Nightfall
...The shy sun withdraws behind purple hills
As the dark sky lights up with silvery stars.
Oh, what beautiful scene, it fills me with thrills.
I go my way amongst the winding narrow paths
Of t...
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Categories:
betake, analogy, food, love, night,
Form: Imagism
Nirvana
...It's cold embrace takes me
A gasp fills my lungs
The first time I've felt full
I understand clarity
It speaks purely in tongues
Mimicking the devil
A troubling familiarity
The burning ache
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Categories:
betake, dark, deep, leaving, life,
Form: Rhyme
Love At the Lighthouse
...We'll meet at sunset, says my lovely Marcellina,
cuddling up to me so soft and warm.
When the glowing sun sets and paints the sky
with all the shades of vermilion hues.
As dusk descen...
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Categories:
betake, love,
Form: Free verse
I Thoroughly Enjoy Dialogue With First Continuity
...And in a pinch reluctantly talk to yours truly,
a very reformed Jew rarely attends Synagogue,
(he who cannot be named) hails from Prague
offtimes provides a wonderful monologue,
whereby his eloqu...
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Categories:
betake, art, deep, freedom, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Visitor
...Tired I betake myself to bed.
The countryside is much too dark tonight.
Harbinger of a storm.
Who cares! Let it do its worst.
Rumbles and lightning affect me not.
I'm so exhausted I doubt I'll h...
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Categories:
betake, night,
Form: Free verse
Woke Up September 6th 2020
...Woke up (September 6th, 2020)...
Got outta bed boot
did not drag comb against head
of beetle browed foo fighter,
he did not arise
bright eyed (by George), nor bushy tailed
to bucket flush to...
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Categories:
betake, blessing, celebration, fate, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Most Restful Sleep Since Being In Utero
...Most restful sleep since... being in utero
Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got extinct,
whence consol...
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Categories:
betake, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Wallet Weeps As Woebegone Former Mister Or Missus Snake
...Listen...carefully,
and ye kin hear
the muffled (dollar us -
dolorous) sound ache
king plaintive very loosely
analogous to duck cry
of mourning, didst awake
ken to the somber news
...
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Categories:
betake, bible, body, fate, loss,
Form: Free verse
Yukon Call Me Panic
...Vane glorious and absolutistic,
though I defiantly,
cavalierly, and blithely attest
Yukon bet your (laugh-in) sweet bippy
mine acidic breast
houses anarchic, anti-poetic ballist...
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Categories:
betake, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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