Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
...Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, appreciation, bird, earth, february,
Form: Rhyme
DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARS
...DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARS
Do not be carried away by the deceit,
Of an oozing chant of a back palm’s stew;
For the meat that source and house it,
Will slip and off it will dri...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, africa, anxiety, caregiving, day,
Form: Blank verse
ah, wassailing!
...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse
Pleasant Spring Like Day February 17th, 2022 Part One
...avast extent of following poem
crafted a couple plus years ago,
when foretaste of temperate weather
covered swath of eastern seaboard.
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would ...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, abuse, betrayal, conflict, creation,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020
...Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
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Categories:
bowdlerize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Your Best Friend
...The problem of the inclusive pronoun is still very much a problem for the writer, and needs an accepted solution. I tried for years with a suggested one of my own, but it never caught on. So here, ...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, friend,
Form: Free verse
Portrait, Sacred and Profane
...A heart quite overpoured is mine.
It replicates the breath
inspiring purity and art
with just a piquancy of lust,
expiring endings of romance
and promises,
of wisdom in the dance
that holds decorum ...
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Categories:
bowdlerize, life,
Form: Free verse