She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance
...She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance,
By the overly polished theories that hang from your lips like cheap jewelry,
No—she feeds on rarer flesh, nourishment for the chosen soul,
She fea...
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Categories:
brooches, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
oblong songs
...burried and cured in sod's wallowing gallow
ground as tender flower of wonder
reading worlds into the hands
mired in swallows and clawed
she began trunks of brooches
for her second son
to flee ...
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Categories:
brooches, africa, england, french,
Form: Free verse
Mine
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All forbidden to this girl,
my Gran's sweet precious treasures,
pearls, brooches, earrings and things _
these treasures now . . . mine
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October 25, 2022...
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Categories:
brooches, grandmother,
Form: Dodoitsu
Captivation
...
I have a collection of antique things;
antique brooches, hair pins, and necklaces;
I love the charm and enchantment each brings _
My captivation has a recklessness !
Oh, I love th...
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Categories:
brooches, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Queen's Long Journey
... "she carved her own road . . . "
Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom
(2022, speech on the death of Q...
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Categories:
brooches, funny,
Form: Narrative
Brooches
...Wayward stars seduce
with a wink and spumante brooch
enticing us to come in for a closer look..
to frolic in inter-dimensional playpens
swap stories of peace and plagues
love -lust and rage
w...
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Categories:
brooches, god, planet, travel,
Form: Free verse
Ruby Shopping
...I spent my day shopping for rubies,
But couldn’t decide on the best,
Some were quite shiny and sparkly,
But shapes nice on some of the rest.
Some of them lined up on brooches,
While others in ...
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Categories:
brooches, death, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Stalling At the Crosswalk
...`
stuck between smoke stack volumes
in alphabetical order
woven metal bodies
straight lines leaving little to the imagination
some big, some small
from exhausted paint rollers
leaving thei...
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Categories:
brooches, lost,
Form: Free verse
Over the Edge, Four Flights Up
...`
I opened the rusted iron gateway
bound in chain and wire, to find a landing
caked in muddied footprints, scattered about like roaches
Magpie shadows course the rain soaked streets
and pu...
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Categories:
brooches, fate, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Want To See It Ruined
...9/14/17
Televisions getting muted
Signals getting lost or boosted
Meanwhile people hooted
Brooded and continually feuded
Was not one to make my drinks diluted
Made me snooze quick or fe...
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Categories:
brooches, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Chassy
...Middle age woman from Tallahassee
believed she was something very classy.
Finger rings
Brooches, things
But time had warped her hourglass chassy...
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Categories:
brooches, humor,
Form: Limerick
Beaches Breached and Broached
...Beaches are where breaches adorn like brooches
Waves curl up to breach the surface of sea,
Then break, plunging headstrong to broach on shore.
Wales and dolphins breach off the beach with spit and...
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Categories:
brooches, beach,
Form: Free verse
Jewelry
...Jewels in mason jars,
jangle, jingle bracelets;
jagged, uneven gems-
Jaunty old style brooches,
jazzy costume trinkets;
jade, priceless? Maybe, just
junk- odd bits...
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Categories:
brooches, grandmother,
Form: Verse
Bazaar
...Holiday season
Shopping spree;
Downtown bazaar
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Easy atmosphere
All sorts of stuff;
Bargains galore
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Table stalls cluster
Mini display items;
Souvenir trinkets...
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Categories:
brooches, change, , cute,
Form: Haiku
A Damsel Longed For a Knight
...A damsel longed for a knight
a man to fight to fight for her causes
with whom she could love and unite
To be with for eternity
to kiss him under the arches
a damsel longed for a knight
A fine brave...
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Categories:
brooches, love,
Form: Villanelle
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