What the Hill Remembers
...I have counted her footsteps
for thirty-seven years
the same path worn
into my slope,
the same pause
at the thorny ridge
where she catches her breath
and adjusts the
weight on her spin...
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Categories:
bundles, children, mother, woman,
Form: Free verse
Shadows on Rooftops
...yellow, orange, red, ribbons stretched across…the brilliant sun
the sound of a rooster..,a fiddler on a roof, above Anatevka
where roads are muddy and tradition is a foundation…milky
town comes ...
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Categories:
bundles, life,
Form: Free verse
Leaves and Leafy Grassiness
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We sleep on each other,
lick on each other,
run around and nip on each other,
we are wholly 'each other,'
personalities
hid
in the ruff and fur around our necks
and the snaggle of ou...
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Categories:
bundles, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Escaping The Silence
...Vitamins, chained to shallow waters. Buried in a cave. Below the world. I stand ready. Waiting for more. Seeds of sorrow planted deep.
Mercy or remorse. Shadows aside I sense you near me.
Nightly r...
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Categories:
bundles, beautiful, blessing, confidence, deep,
Form: Free verse
Hakim The Gatekeeper from Esagila
...Hakim. The Gatekeeper from Esagila.
(A lone voice whispers)
In ancient Babylon,
I once stood alone and mixed fire
Iron and clay
All day
Creating a spell
To entice my only light to...
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Categories:
bundles, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Noon Sky
...“The sky in changing shades enfolds many mysteries of the universe, the shifting clouds, the sun, moon, stars and other heavenly bodies. Its vastness is like the vastness of human mind, shape shiftin...
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Categories:
bundles, appreciation, color, sky,
Form: Verse
We both were once in a village, far from the crowd
...We both were once in a village, far from the crowd
(Home/verses/khonika/ek ganye)
We both were once in a village, far from the crowd
Plethora, the joy is always ours!
Magpie Robin chirps there ...
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Categories:
bundles, anti bullying, appreciation, august,
Form: Free verse
What’s It All About Alfie?
...Arrows, what are they good for?
In an embodied dungeon very near to
my molested liver
arrows pile up, bundles of barbs,
each one a love letter
that missed its mark.
Some older ones
still drip ...
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Categories:
bundles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Poet Speaks of Madness
...The poet speaks of madness--madness similar
to what? What was spoken before this silly syllabus?
Each ant, lifting and carrying, adds bundles of dried
and curled rose petals to the soup simmeri...
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Categories:
bundles, insect,
Form: Free verse
Symphony of Souls
...In corners of the world, where rays smile bright,
There are furry friends, speaking souls in the light.
Cats that prance and dogs that bark,
In every heartbeat, they wait for us with a spark.
D...
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Categories:
bundles, animal, appreciation, blessing, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Shuttering
...A lot of it happened when not looking,
they are captured as photo-images
still arriving
undeveloped.
Beneath the skin of a retro-vison
dark scenes of rain
slicing through confused clouds
for...
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Categories:
bundles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Deep Moments
...
The shadow I cast on the corridor wall
Covers my father’s radiant photo frame
Night’s transcripts are saved on the iron chest
Stacking the secrets tied in bundles
Apologies are like ince...
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Categories:
bundles, memory,
Form: Free verse
Light White Clouds
...On summer grass
freshly cut
I lay relaxing looking up at the
subtle slovenly shape shifter
floating above
It steals my mind
and the world disappears
slowly changing
sneaking by
forming froth...
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Categories:
bundles, fun, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
Walk life like a cat
...Form - Free Verse (Written my way) Poetry Contest-Constance La France, Theme 2. Life. *A pregnant or nursing cat is called Queen.
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Categories:
bundles, beautiful, cat, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
They cannot kill the heart of Palestine
...Refugees came running from Hitlers rule
Save these victims from a death so cruel!
"Never again!" were the words they muttered
"We must defend our land" soon they uttered
Building your home on ...
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Categories:
bundles, death, war,
Form: Quatrain
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