Cascading Perspectives
We see through different eyes—
A truth to you, another to me.
"Who is right? Who is wrong?" we ask,
Lost in a tangled web of thought.
We tug at our beliefs, push back and pull,
Each mind a different vantage point.
Context shifts like shadows at play,
And in this uncertainty, we sway.
Misunderstanding fuels the fight,
Its embers glowing in the night.
Arguments
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Categories:
cascading, inspiration, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Cascading Colors
A Kaleidoscope, my best toy!
Hours flew as new colors emerged,
A cascade of abstract-colored joy
Myriad patterns of colors surged.
Colorful glass in serpentine slides,
Slithered across an imagined sky.
Is there a lunar planet that hides,
in colored glass as time hurries by?
I pretended the colors were stars,
I could travel on one of my choice.
I would sing songs as we
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Categories:
cascading, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Perfume
Gone are the rhythms of your body
As you lay beside me sleeping,
Hair cascading across our pillow,
With your arms so soft and warm.
Our cold wrinkled sheets rest half empty,
Save for yesterday’s perfume.
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Categories:
cascading, body, hair, loss, passion,
Form: Free verse
cascading rays
cascading rays
the heat made bearable
under cover
the mist of the waves
cooling her weary soul
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Categories:
cascading, poems,
Form: Tanka
cascading
cascading
icy slivers
ocean’s
salty spray
magnificent experience
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Categories:
cascading, water, weather,
Form: Tanka
Cascading Rain
I'm oblivious to the chatter
cascading from
unknown streams
Soon enough themes evaporate
like steam
& are gone with the
wind like hot air from tea pots
Misguided missiles aimed harm
those within earshot
but I hear not nor care to listen
to rumors of war
I lean more toward better things
choosing to be swayed
by them
instead of misinterpreting the
misgivings & chirping
of angry birds
I'm in a
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Categories:
cascading, feelings, introspection, perspective, rain,
Form: Free verse
Cascading Water
Cascading water
crystalline blue;
Rid me of stains
the days produce.
Make haste to quench
my torrid throat.
Seal, cavernous wounds,
this body totes.
Disguise these tears
that drench my face.
Soothe aching muscles,
my strength replace.
Defuse the doubt
that clouds my mind.
Spiritual drops
refreshes soul, divine.
Reviving energy
pours from the spout.
Welcoming, comforting
its warmth, its sound.
Once you're well done
with all my requests,
cleanse dreadful dreams
so I
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Categories:
cascading, blessing, caregiving, cool, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Night and rain
How I've looked at the rain for hours
For it was so enticing to watch
The cascading droplets and the fog
Made a very good sight
I felt that's where I belong
A place surrounded by only rain and fog
A very cool and relaxing place
How I've wished for it to fall for hours
For me to witness this blessed sight
Why it
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Categories:
cascading, nature, night, rain, weather,
Form: Free verse
Broken Promises
Are you a person who keeps his promises or breaks them all the time
Take the one most people at New Years make to themselves after that last bottle of wine
The old saying I am a man of my word what does that really mean
How about our governments and what they claim they are going to
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Categories:
cascading, life,
Form: Rhyme
Cascading Consciousness
Oh painful pain lingering
throbbing unjoyously
flaunt that false grin again
bring me terror of the unstable mind
where rabid horses trample garden gates
where pampered vines bleed broth and sap
no food no flavors just herbal failures
not yet extracted
the untended tend to decay
“thank you no” do I ever say
I talk I think I never pray
gracious gratitude fails twice
to
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Categories:
cascading, mental health, pain,
Form: Free verse
Cascading Embers of Heart Driven Fire
Cascading Embers Of Heart Driven Fire
Unrepentant heart, its hot blood there spills
Sad dregs of immortal nurselings of desire
And winter's warm breath blows the woodland fires
Amongst the frozen trees and through the hills
Wanton weariness, invisible veil hides
Cascading embers of heart driven fire
Exploding storm flees to nothing it retires
Where dead emperor in agony resides
Black robe judges, their
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Categories:
cascading, creation, deep, evil, life,
Form: Sonnet
Cascading Seasons
Guaranteed to make us smile-
our new Spring comes every year;
its magic brings a warmer, brighter Sun-
as snow begins to melt and seedlings sprout
their fresh green leaves with blossoms to unfold.
Later, Summer takes Spring's reign-
her brush paints scenes verdant green,
and blossoms open wide in colors splashed
against lush lawns, while all the sprawling trees-
their branches filled
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Categories:
cascading, inspirational, seasons, tribute,
Form: Verse
Upright Cascading Beauty Broken-A Dedicated Verse To Janeen Brown God Is Speaking Ministries 3-
UPRIGHT CASCADING BEAUTY BROKEN-HEARTED
You walk on to me you pair me with your eyes startled
Dilated spectrum rationalize beautiful window your pain
Eye gate windowsill is splintered crest
The message of the view I see everest
And I realize that the glass is smudge tears fall like rain
UPRIGHT CASCADING BEAUTY BROKEN-HEARTED
But it's clear to me now love
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Categories:
cascading, blue, caregiving, desire, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cascading Emotions
Wading through cascading emotions,
I feel within me warring oceans,
Losing you, love, could cause such turmoil,
If I had known, your death I'd have foiled,
Lost that war with time and destiny,
Now I trudge on in hushed mutiny.
25th April 2023
For Line Gauthier's "Bite Size Contest No. 62"
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Categories:
cascading, conflict, death, emotions, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Like Red Tears Cascading
"We are the Dead. Short days ago.
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Loved and were loved, and now we lie.
In Flanders fields. "
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Categories:
cascading, history, war,
Form: Free verse
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