August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories:
branched, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
TO THE VINING CHILDREN, VIBING
...TO THE VINING CHILDREN…VIBING…
(Apropos Of A Scriptural Inspiration)
Let us be as the Vines
Of The Gardener;
Let us who have been pruned
With love and awareness,
Have branches sharing fruits...
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Categories:
branched, allegory, analogy, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Summer Solstice 2025
...Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories:
branched, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Now Continuum
...Line of inquiry:
“since thoughts speak in past tenses,
drop mind, rely on senses,
embracing and releasing,
pain pangs and pleasure pleasing”
My thoughts are swimming against the curre...
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Categories:
branched, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Eight Years Writing Poetry is Not Enough
...I discovered www.poetrysoup which lists styles of poetry
This site shows you examples of haiku, senryu, alliteration, monorhyme
Diminished hexaverse, acroustic, shape poems, rhyme, and much more
T...
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Categories:
branched, poetry,
Form: Narrative
IN THE SPRING OF CONFUSION: A TANKA DUO
...Tree-branched bird staring,
Looking me right in the eyes;
We both confused:
Humsn and natural nature,
Inhibiting springing peace:-
Wars' twofold nature:
Destructive storms and b...
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Categories:
branched, allegory,
Form: Tanka
TWO FROZEN REFLECTIONS
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I
Remaining Steadfast Warm
In the Struggle’s Snow Storm
Looking out up above
the ...
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Categories:
branched, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup
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prompts are
posted
all types,
daily
some are
not strict
with few
guidelines
others
with more
detailed
guidelines
make my
brain cells
create
new thoughts!
since I
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Categories:
branched, poetry,
Form: Footle
The breathing, bare branched tree outside the kitchen window?
...She shivers about, tense
at the inhospitable world
blinds and plexiglass seal frightened creatures from.
Rocking
from root to root —
in front, in back, in
the sun’s silhouette, the wind fan...
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Categories:
branched, nature,
Form: Free verse
IN SAGE TREED INSPIRATION
...IN SAGE TREED INSPIRATION
Standing in the forested arena
Beneath one of the multiplicities
Of the ethnicities of barked sage trees
Reining in the mutual oneness
Of the equanimity of their bei...
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Categories:
branched, allegory, deep, encouraging, extended
Form: Alliteration
The Daily Star Thursday issue
...The Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post M...
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Categories:
branched, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june,
Form: Free verse
A Piece In The Puzzle
...We have no enemies only friends in disguise
tasked with helping us rise to levels
previously unknown
They may know not what they do so have
compassion for those souls
& seek to learn from them a...
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Categories:
branched, inspiration, inspirational, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
The Stately Iris Flower
...The Stately Iris Flower
Bearded irises are tall and stately in form
They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm
Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips
A swollen stem where...
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Categories:
branched, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Crimes of the Heart
...If I was gifted meant to be,
drift o'er the waves a shining sea,
shift the limbs and branched canopies,
sift the brambles edged a lea.
Might this time be of arrogance?
Contrite that pl...
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Categories:
branched, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Lento
The Manna
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A soloist Java Sparrow flits,
A cathedral canopy of arched branched leaves,
The sparkling daylight dances the vast green space,
Moss glut rock form protrudes aground sits,
Pews of r...
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Categories:
branched, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
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