Strong Misgivings--
...Fitful gusts
Occasional thunderstorms
Sunless cannonades
Refreshing breezes
Little gusts
Interesting seedpods
Violent lusts
Emotional whirlwinds, mistrust
Strong misgivings
7/6/19
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Categories:
cannonades, analogy, assonance,
Form: Light Verse
Hidden Beauty
...Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus ...
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Categories:
cannonades, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Storm
...The Storm
Frank Halliwell
The sultry day was near its end,
The cloying heat distressed.
The cool of evening getting near,
But still the air oppressed.
A mounting sh...
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Categories:
cannonades, world,
Form: Rhyme
Musings of Mother
..."I shall be telling this with a sigh"
Robert Frost
My thoughts they roil like waters dark
in the abyss of blackest night
with memories of mother’s book marks
of Longfellow read by lamp l...
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Categories:
cannonades, angst, caregiving, childhood, daughter,
Form: Ode