Blue Jade
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Wherever the winter falls,
upon snowflakes of a frozen saudade ~
rising from the flares
of maple-gold and copper,
I waltz in lilac lanes of petrified pigments,
imperfectly splattered by ...
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Categories:
calligrapher, emotions, first love, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Petals of Pain
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Once upon a time,
when juliet was a jewel
of psychedelic phrases ~
steering rubies of romance
to distant shores,
where sapphire seafoam
had never kissed the silence of sands ~
the...
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Categories:
calligrapher, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode To My Pen
...My dear incredible pen,
you are the pinnacle of writing instruments! Looking refined with your elegant ebony shaft and gold-filagree trim, you are a true technological wonder to behold and a master ...
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Categories:
calligrapher, character, fantasy, feelings, funny
Form: Ode
Penny Rich
...Birth, with stars in her eyes, exploding with mirth.
Mollycoddled, swaddled, passed off by nurses.
Aperture opens, closes - checking out earth.
The peacock calligrapher inks fair verse...
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Categories:
calligrapher, birth, humor, money,
Form: Ottava rima
Calligrapher
...Oh! If I were a Japanese painter
I could do justice to where I sit now,
on top of a rock by the river
watching a pale sun weakly glow.
Through the overcast it will create
a calligrapher's world ...
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Categories:
calligrapher, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art,
Form: Sonnet
Where Poets Rule
...Everything that is created
disguises a hidden purpose....
A calligrapher writes out his lines
not just for the exquisiteness of the script
but to also convey a meaning.
Rumi (M. Ma...
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Categories:
calligrapher, beauty, color, dance, love,
Form: Free verse
Weaving
...The late afternoon sun filters through spruce and hemlock
as I sit here with my juice and my jacket on.
I was ready to say goodbye to this so long so.
As beautiful as this leafy world is, it is no...
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Categories:
calligrapher, adventure, break up, celebration,
Form: Ballad