ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE
...ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinki...
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Categories:
cerise, 12th grade, mother, mother
Form: Haibun
THOSE WE LOVE
...Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor
ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the sciss...
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Categories:
cerise, 12th grade, love, mother,
Form: Haibun
Crayon Box Dreams
...A box of crayons new and ready waits
to block the yelling sounds outside the door.
The dreams a hundred color box creates
erase those sounds while I draw on the floor.
The shouting disappears,...
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Categories:
cerise, color, drink, violence,
Form: Sonnet
Sunrise and Sunset Routines
...Breaking up the day into coffee and cabernet,
energy and relaxation, sunrise and sunset routines.
—by poet
Sunrise coffee, percolating,
poured into four seasons.
As soon as the mug’s ...
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Categories:
cerise, day, night,
Form: Free verse
To Fly
...Upon this dappled hill I stand
Before these priceless scenes so grand
That no one ever saw
Beneath... upon a ridge so high
A bright display, the cerise sky
Rooted alone in awe.
No f...
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Categories:
cerise, earth, sky, space,
Form: Rhyme
Shamefaced
...A cerise bite left by a pent up crush,
now our addiction can’t be hidden.
Every loud rumor put to a hush.
‘Please set me free…
please set me free…’
That’s what I ...
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Categories:
cerise, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
WHERE LOVE LEARNS NO MORE
...Sponsor : Justin Bordner
WHERE LOVE LEARNS NO MORE
Where Love learns no more
two serpents crawling twine
one midnight black another
luminous wizardy white
entangled fanged bedazzled...
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Categories:
cerise, allegory, creation, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Autumn
...Autumn
colors the leaves;
as Nature's brush dapples
inks of cerise, yellow, and gold
on a canvas of green with orange tints;
adorning the tops of the trees.
No season besides Spring,
c...
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Categories:
cerise, autumn, beautiful, change, color,
Form: Rictameter
Janet From Another Planet
...Maybe you’ve seen Janet
she’s from another planet
making all her regular stops
at the local charity shops
loves a second hand rail or two
lives in the land of good as new
to knock and shock the...
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Categories:
cerise, 10th grade, drink, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday Ink Empress
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Dear poetry soup family, today is a very special day as we celebrate the birthday of a new year star ~ my lovely, Ink Empress. She is one of the kindest, compassionate and purest soul I've met in...
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Categories:
cerise, birthday, devotion, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Parody
...Inflamed beneath a midday fear, that novelist's story unfolds,
Shone angles trending 'neath the Earth to switch sparks till cold,
Zeal queues the chosen to fire calm suite blissful psalms dreams sw...
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Categories:
cerise, analogy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Lyric
Sappho Translations XIV
...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch
In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i...
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Categories:
cerise, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Stardust On Autumn Leaves
...Tantalizing season steps in humming
Delightful songs - soar cerise, tangerine,
Crimson, red leaves - floating, fluttering
Swooshing, spreading light…. Stardust
Sprinkled from the misty clouds abo...
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Categories:
cerise, autumn, flower,
Form: Free verse
Stardust On Autumn Leaves
...The air feels nippy as the Night stretches,
adjusting itself to fit Fall.
Silence replaces the songbirds' sweet songs;
while wailing winds
compose a dirge for Summers's death.
And in the...
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Categories:
cerise, autumn, beautiful, beauty, change,
Form: Free verse
In marked territory
...When my inkless isles
become drenched
with icy wintergreen embers
of apologetic auroras ~
and l i f e loses its lyrics in lilith's labyrinth,
this soul orchestrating in origami ri...
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Categories:
cerise, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
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