opus
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dulcet …
the night …
holds far too few hours
to attend you, pure … proper
in twilight reverence
your body’s song is my scripture
the braille my fingers ache to read -
sexy verse moonlight ...
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Categories:
catkin, analogy, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
nacre grace
...
dear …
moonlight
keeper of the wan,
wondrous, midnight mists
might I beg of you a kindness?
I know you hide there,
safe from the needling stars in a
shroud of black brume
but could you wi...
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Categories:
catkin, analogy, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
sarikha
...
love …
a crutch for you
but you wear it like a Prada suit
matching handbag, of course, to keep
your toys in …
(mostly men … alphabetically)
six-inch Blahnik stilettos for crushing
egos wit...
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Categories:
catkin, analogy, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Songs By the Hearth
...I left home in dreams of battlefield glory,
When Pea flower dot the golden brown cole
In the delicate bloom of late spring.
I cycled to the frontlines,
Wheels whispering of broken prophecies.
Th...
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Categories:
catkin, culture, farewell, grief, growth,
Form: Free verse
five senses -
...
all my senses ...
long to make sense ... of YOU
what greets my gaze is perfect imperfection
lines and curves and shapes and
colors and movements
mingled with sacred intent in sublime symmetr...
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Categories:
catkin, analogy, appreciation, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Catkins, Mistletoe and Wallabies
...Night brings a wondrous display
a mix and blended menagerie arrayed
with colors, melodies and creatures unmatched
by any hunter's imaginary superiority scratched.
In my wildest dreams at the ...
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Categories:
catkin, dream, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Windmill
...The road leads to old windmill
Soul like grain is processed by the mill
The very presence of the mill
Surreal will make you feel
The orb is like science filled dream
Beautiful and bizarre cry...
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Categories:
catkin, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Scent of Spring
...Sun is setting in the west
Birds towards home are flying fast
In search of beauty soul begins a quest
In the vision of horizon the spirit will nest
Upon the lake in the spring breeze rushes gen...
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Categories:
catkin, fantasy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Smell of Spring
...The snow before honey hued sun flees
The rivers begin to unfreeze
The fragrance of field flowers and bonfire is carried by spring breeze
Catkin begins to grow soon flowers will be pollinated by bees...
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Categories:
catkin, spring, spring, spring,
Form: Rhyme
April
...If the wind changes and the showers fall heavily on meadows and glades April is Green,
Buds and leaves grow quickly on these green days everyone can see that there is a sun,
Walk through villages, co...
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Categories:
catkin, nature, green,
Form: Prose Poetry
Catkin Willow
...Catkins, Catkins peek out your furry head
Upon the branchlet within the meadow
Remember curiosity killed the cat, stone dead
Nature's furry, cocoons upon the willow
Beat the leaf and spr...
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Categories:
catkin, animals,
Form: Free verse
Daffodils
...Jack Horne
Picking twelve bunches of daffodils -
I knew they were her favourites -
I stood beneath catkin trees,
Listening to the chicks
Calling their parents,
Waiting for grubs.
Then she ...
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Categories:
catkin, romance
Form: Nonet