Safe and sound'
...If you can help yourself.? And yet not harm another, you're doing real well (dear sister dear brother!) If you can resist the pressure.? For it seems always to come.?? It sort of pops
Right up.' Th...
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Categories:
cavalcades, education,
Form: Rhyme
Stars of Clarity
...Stars of Clarity 11-22-23
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Stars of Clarity
Lost in ebony
Void of bursting astral intuitions,
Alabaster amber stolen,
Aba...
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Categories:
cavalcades, life, light, stars,
Form: Free verse
The Sitting Room
...A quiet spot in the house,
not frequented by visitors,
set aside, distant, aloof
solitary refuge, retreat,
escape, safe haven, sanctuary
from life trials and tribulations;
points of memo...
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Categories:
cavalcades, age, analogy, seasons, time,
Form: Free verse
Too Soon
...The cries,
nurture,
innocence,
restricted by affection,
instructors,
finding paths in obscurity,
trapped in bonds,
used or misused,
made or damaged.
ambition,
a...
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Categories:
cavalcades, age, deep, destiny, heart,
Form: Couplet
Cavalcades of Colors
...At the end of the day
Cavalcades of color play
a majestic organ in the sky
~ Earthly audiences sigh
Fire-orange blazes on top
of the chord-cloud's deep gray
As the Heavens' Grand Finale...
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Categories:
cavalcades, color, heaven, music, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...Time
Thou mighty monarch of “eartherial” scope,
the vicegerent and the viceroy of all fickle frame.
from thy womb lonesome vial sprung,
and the cavalcades of torrents bearing branches
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Categories:
cavalcades, change, destiny, earth, journey,
Form: Lyric
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -
..."I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I marvel the view as my eye-lashes wink and bli...
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Categories:
cavalcades, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Kongi
...Wired mortal from the English Art
Banished from his home, spotted from a distance
Noble amongst scrawling African inscriptions
First veneration of mystical minds
Take a bow, take a bow.
Oblite...
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Categories:
cavalcades, art, class, dedication, eulogy,
Form: Alliteration
Strive To Drive To Your Priceless Goal
...Intentions and innermost desires from minds sparkle in your eyes
Surface simulations and aberrations fly off sugar-coated tongues
Where cavalcades of pesky pies and their ties to lies
Assail love ...
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Categories:
cavalcades, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Story of An Insignificant Mother
...A story
Of an insignificant mother trailed.
When sledgehammered, pickaxed
Excavated, craned and the progress of
The ceaseless destruction of
Demolished construction railed.
So is a story
O...
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Categories:
cavalcades, animal, baby, bird, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Deathlessness
...Once I tried
To fathom the ocean,
And the deep rumbling
Orchestrated symphony
Of the endless cavalcades
Of those reconvening,
Ebb and flow of
Aquamarine waves
Wrapped in lyrical brevity,
Kep...
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Categories:
cavalcades, life, ocean, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Me and Me First
...That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me an...
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Categories:
cavalcades, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Circus Memories
...Acrobats in the center ring
Ballerina bears on balls and bicycles
Cavalcades of clowns with calliopes
Dancing damsels in glittery corsets and tulle skirts
Elephants parade in wrinkled suits
Fir...
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Categories:
cavalcades, children, dance, children, happiness,
Form: Abecedarian
Cosmic Heart
...COSMIC HEART
There once were places in this world where you could escape
but now the whole globe is wrapped with investigation tape.
So when I want to get away and leave this mess behind
I find...
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Categories:
cavalcades, stars, universe,
Form: Couplet
Puppeteers
...Puppeteers
In cavalcades of bulletproof cocoons
all aspects of our lives they can control
they own all that you have except your soul
the sharply suited pipers call the tunes.
Exchanging every...
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Categories:
cavalcades, political, war,
Form: Sonnet
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