Coral and Lime stoneCoral and Limestone**
You can take the country out of me, but the essence of acid lime runs through my veins like an indelible mark of my heritage. Growing up on the island was a unique blessing, where the roots of kinship ran deep and everyone seemed connected by an invisible thread. It was a place...
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Categories:
angst, celebration, character, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Morning BirthOften I gaze
In shadows I sought refuge
Healing waters from the valley of visions
Measured my portion
In weaves I sowed my seed
Through many days of distortion
We Tilled the sky
It bore us life
In his ways I hope to walk
The King of Kings is Yeshua
He rose again from the grave
Often I gaze
In gardens of plenty
Toward the east
Toward the Valley...
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Categories:
absence, baptism, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse
NowruzThe grass has grown, the garden’s bright—
Nowruz has come, a feast of light.
The demon’s tangled, winter hair
has vanished, melted in the air.
Yes, spring returns with scented breeze,
no more the moan of bitter freeze.
Joy has arrived at every door—
love walks with us, alone no more.
Saqi, pour wine and lift this day,
chase all our noisy cares away.
You,...
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Categories:
celebration, new years day,
Form: Masnavi
MY FATHER'S DAY LOVEFather's Day is coming.
And I know all my sadness will be forthcoming
My children are my family
And in my life, I learned
From the best father
My father always asked me what I was thinking
And they were always there to listen
My father was strong
And help me teach me what is right and wrong
He was always there for my...
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Categories:
blessing, celebration, family, fathers
Form: Free verse
TIME FOR CHAMPAGNETIME FOR CHAMPAGNE
Louis Roederer will do great
Moet and Chandon is okay
No Prosecco can be served here
Only the very best will do
Pol Roger will be fine with me
Nette Onclaud, Time For Champagne, 12 June 2025...
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Categories:
celebration,
Form: Abecedarian
IntermentIn fifth grade, I earned first place
statewide for violin
against the girl I half-loved—
her fingers quicker,
her lineage more illustrious—
but that day,
mine did not tremble.
She chose a piece
with fireworks and pitfalls—
something by Tchaikovsky—
I chose Barcarolle—
plainspoken, sweet,
a boat gliding through moonlight.
I played it without flaw.
She slipped once,
only once.
We both knew I’d won
on a grace note—
not brilliance, nor fire—
just...
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Categories:
5th grade, celebration, childhood,
Form: Free verse
junco
blithe is the songbird
chiming on velvet gold plumes
melody fills spring
june wind props avian flight...
leaving me sad notes, goodbye...
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Categories:
bird, celebration,
Form: Tanka
Coffee BreakLip-smacking whipped cream caffeine kick,
molten sips a swirl tide nectar,
nest of colleagues weave light relief,
office banter pulse rate wrecks graph,
pep restored for desktop drudgers...
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Categories:
celebration, day, environment, food,
Form: Abecedarian
The Hidden Paan Shop
Hidden beneath the leaves of trees is a blue shop -
Gleefully I smile; half - construed but true shop.
No soul in sight, parking heedlessly, now I plight -
Wearing chapals, I go in - flight to this new shop.
Entering, I see a man’s mouthy visage -
Working he spits in a silver bowl in this rue...
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Categories:
celebration, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ghazal
Bond of LoveIn quiet glances, fingers brushed,
A world of words goes softly hushed.
No need for speech when hearts align,
Your soul forever echoes mine.
Through storm and sun, in darkest hour,
Love finds its way—our secret power.
A tether formed by time and grace,
That distance, fate, or fear can't chase.
It’s not in vows or grand display,
But how you stay, and choose...
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Categories:
care, celebration, i love
Form: Rhyme
Christ Jesus The Chief CornerstoneIn building the Cornerstone is the first stone laid
setting the foundation for...
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Categories:
celebration, age, baptism, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Time for Champagne
Let us all have some party fun
More the merrier, come along do
Never is the door shut on anyone
Once upon a time I read
Parties are time for champagne, yes!
***
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Categories:
celebration, fun,
Form: Abecedarian
Hubs Of HeavenCatalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
vernal vivid verse drought a derelict damnation for those who implore heaven’s intercession,
a world endowed with luxuriant canvas whose ample acme is bestrewn with hue etched serpentine...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: Free verse
A Candle Inside The ChildPeople count the years
by candles and quiet tears.
The twenties, they say,
are when we wait
for the first cry
from a miracle
just learning to breathe.
But some of us, like me,
never quite grow up.
Peter Pan weeps
each time the rain brushes my shoulders.
I come alive again
only in fleeting moments,
like the string that’s slipped
from a flying kite.
Just days ago,
that child stirred...
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Categories:
celebration, child, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
About This PlaceMy haunting birth place,
picture book of green scene bliss,
brimming with winsome townsfolk,
who ooze unfeigned charm,
streets vibrate at crack of dawn,
night life otherworld intrigue...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Choka
Specific Types of Celebration Poems
Definition | What is Celebration in Poetry?
Poems Related to Celebration
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