A haiku cautioning newlyweds
...Love, like dead parents
leaves when you least expect it
orphaning young hearts....
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Categories:
cautioning, break up, emotions, grief,
Form: Haiku
A Republic, if you can keep it
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Apocrypha phantoms
Hustle flung at your plugged ears
Wretched refuse numbed
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Categories:
cautioning, allusion, america, culture, destiny,
Form: Haiku
Seasonal Bliss
...The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy s...
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Categories:
cautioning, appreciation, autumn, beauty, seasons,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR NOT TURNING AWAY OUR PRAYER
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June 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 66-69
Key Verse – Psalms 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
PRAISE...
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Categories:
cautioning, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
RIP Junior Pope
...R.I.P JUNIOR POPE
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In sombre silence & mournful melody,
A threnody for one who passed on sadly,
Who lost his life without a life jacket,
Crashed without precaution on a speedboat.4
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Categories:
cautioning, 1st grade,
Form: Elegy
Bells
...Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing,
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet crescendo.
Clanging and cl...
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Categories:
cautioning, feelings, funeral, Lullaby, sound,
Form: Free verse
Clouds
...Creamy white cotton puffs
Cover baby blue skies
Creative floating art
Cautioning storms when black
Colorful rainbow gifts
Cumulus wet crystals
Create contrail designs...
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Categories:
cautioning, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Pleiades
Empty Circles
...I circle the familiar oak, though no more do I recognize the landscape
I search longingly for any semblance of memories cross the expanse
Darkness meant to protect erodes, the land cannot hol...
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Categories:
cautioning, lost, memory, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Initiation
...Longitude, latitude lives
we strain in this existenance
Inner exuberance, outward compliance
can we exorcise all our ignorance?
redefine our pleasuredoms to
potent people preferentials,
delive...
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Categories:
cautioning, fate, identity, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
No School For Us
...Squabbling and shouting is our normal,
not in other’s prissy persnickety vocabularies.
Hoarders, we climb over rats to get to our clothes
Others envy us this luxury
No one bathes; the bathtub h...
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Categories:
cautioning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Sidney Cat
...Sidney Cat****
Here is another cat in this home’s
trying herd, who wears his fur
with a shiny, pretentious pride (for
which, of course, there is no cautioning word
to hint to him about hum...
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Categories:
cautioning, allegory, bird, cat, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
Six Foot Instructions
...I am going to die of something the old woman said.
I won’t care about hugs or kisses after I am dead.
But today when I see my grandchild, I want some fun.
I want hugs and kisses, I want to hold hi...
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Categories:
cautioning, age, america, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Sabbatical Dreams -It
...Twilight waved me sadly sighing, adieu,
Furling her rosy hue; cautioning me.
Earie boardwalk creaks near the white sand beach,
But alone I dream here with piercing pains.
The labe...
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Categories:
cautioning, dream, eve, memory,
Form: Verse
Inertia
...INERTIA
I seek nirvana sitting still
to prey upon a silent cloud
without a color save for dun
its shapes that mingle as they will
likened to a comely face
awaiting color from the sun
wh...
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Categories:
cautioning, religious,
Form: Sedoka
Cancellations
...Schools, parades and lots of trips,
Cruises, flights and races;
Tennis matches and events
In other crowded places:
All are being canceled or
Postponed for times awaiting.
No one knows how soo...
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Categories:
cautioning, anxiety, life,
Form: Rhyme
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