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Cause for Worry

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He scratched your back, now he needs bail;
It’s payback time cause he’s in jail.
This pest has tagged your buttonhole.
A cause for worry, you poor soul.

Of course, he needs money, bold cash...

Categories: buttonhole, 11th grade, angst, money,
Form: Rhyme

unwilling rose

...Unwilling rose 


At the entrance of the supermarket
a lone rose for sale in a vase 
Yes, for sale, at a reduced price 
she had been there all day long
and no one had been interested in purcha...

Categories: buttonhole, adventure, art, bird,
Form: Free verse

After Hours Stroll

...Midnight  boom town  streets have this allure
imagining an uncanny venture
eavesdrop veil surround but dark as coal
how I love my after hours stroll

Secret worlds unfold their impish plot
mesm...

Categories: buttonhole, beautiful, beauty, celebration, cheer
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Fame In Lost Time

... Written: September 29, 2023
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Silence has an inherent sense of fame.
stance that orates itself without a name.
Before the ea...

Categories: buttonhole, analogy, best friend, smile,
Form: Rhyme

Kaleidoscopic Cosmos

...Bloom or bouquet or bunch or bare brief buttonhole,
Fresh or full-blown or nosegay or fresh posy role;
Flowers blossom in saucy slimy silkiness,
Seek them to be the same, is senile silliness.

R...

Categories: buttonhole, color, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Daybreak

...new day about to rise
and through a buttonhole
~ suddenly the sun in all its glory



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on June 2, 2021...

Categories: buttonhole, appreciation, beautiful, day, morning,
Form: Free verse

An Annoying Troll - Children Story

...A troll followed me home one day,
Looking to bring me down.
I told it I didn’t want to play,
To go dig a great deep hole,
Roll its little soul into the black hole.
It didn't matter where I went
...

Categories: buttonhole, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

The Dragon's Fire

...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
In buttonhole set daily a red rose new
His charisma couldn’t beguile the neighbor
The dragon disgorged fire in ‘62’s war.

January 24, 2019

(Note : Jawaharlal ...

Categories: buttonhole, betrayal, humorous,
Form: Clerihew

The Rainbow

...It was a new year's party
Footfalls of the cups and glasses
Dances of the eyes and tongue
The time swung with the music
She wore a light pink lipstick
A lithe body of twenty 
A handndso...

Categories: buttonhole, appreciation, culture, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse

Famous By Naomi Shihab Nye

...This is an outstanding poem and thought that
everyone should read it. I also copied the credits
and author's name. Jim Horn

Poem of the Day: Famous

by Naomi Shihab Nye


The river is famou...

Categories: buttonhole, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse

Buttonhole Daisy

...Buttonhole Daisy 
            by Odin Roark

My city bud and I
How we love the long walks
Daisy beneath my chin
Tucked securely in a buttonhole
Me with discovery in my eye
Maneuvering ever changing t...

Categories: buttonhole, city,
Form: Free verse

There It Stood

...There it stood,
torn from the threshold of life,
this mere device of atrocities,
this buttonhole that bleeds
your insecurities across
an ancient atlas.

It dies in the corner of your eye
as y...

Categories: buttonhole, confusion, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse

Empty Church

...The day the earth stood still, 
bells suspended in the tower, 
chimes froze in vacant space, 
nullified the hour. 
Her veil like spider web, 
stiff with Winter frost, 
hung upon the mannequin h...

Categories: buttonhole, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse