The Fan
...My early morning post relates to the powerful emotions icons emit, when they leave us, forever in the physical sense.
Did the passing of an icon leave an impression on you?
Salute.
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Categories:
chantilly, music,
Form: Rhyme
Poets Declare Life's Fragility
..."How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..."
Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales
and their harsh, buffeting fingers.
He called them an "autumnal spell."
Autumn...the season when leaves han...
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Categories:
chantilly, environment, wind,
Form: Free verse
My Gemini Garden
...A walk in wonderland.
Sun kissed shades of green.
Ferns as delicate as Chantilly lace.
Ornamental grasses dance in the breeze
Ghostly grey herbaceous wit...
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Categories:
chantilly, garden,
Form: Free verse
My second life
...Within his moment, I wouldn't change a thing,
my life right now is earnt,
I got here on my own merit,
proud of all the things I've learnt.
Oh but that thought of what if, what an offer!
If I c...
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Categories:
chantilly, appreciation, change, for her,
Form: Rhyme
DAYS OF OLD 50's
... East of Eden and
The Tingler.
The lady killer and
Julius Caesar.
A star is born and
Vertigo.
The Killing and
Ace in the hole.
Godzilla and
The night and fog.
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Categories:
chantilly, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Beating Willynilly
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Hope you love my Valentine's card silly,
'cause you make my heart beat willynilly;
cannot think of us apart,
our passion off the chart.
Will you be mine ? Sweet kitty Chantill...
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Categories:
chantilly, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets
..."Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger...
it all fades, except love. Love is forever and thereafter,
even when we've...
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Categories:
chantilly, poets, wind,
Form: Free verse
Smelling
...Oh for smelling when lavender’s in bloom
or sweet roses and their pretty perfume.
Chantilly I love to have a whiff of.
Tabu is so sexy – a fragrance I love.
Bread in the oven is so nice to sme...
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Categories:
chantilly, senses,
Form: Rhyme
An Old Fashioned Love
...I was a dedicated, expert arborist, bringing joy and comfort to shady spaces,
As mountains give cool joy to blooms, in butterscotch afternoon's last traces.
A love of trees grew in youth, when cl...
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Categories:
chantilly, family, fantasy, green, life,
Form: Couplet
Poem of the Home Gnome
...Darlene De Beaulieu graciously consented for her poem "Gnomes" to be used by me in this contest. Thank you Darlene!
There’s no gnome
like the gnome at home.
I have a g...
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Categories:
chantilly, cute, fantasy, friend, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Four Cafes
...Chantilly lace curtains of my apartment window ripple in the cold January night. From here, I observe mooring lights that illumine the docks in this petty northern port and four cafés that lean towar...
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Categories:
chantilly, environment, january, men, music,
Form: Prose
Enlaced
...wind
arctic
boreal
tatting across
whitened landscapes Chantilly with frore lace
and snowy-stiff satin brocade cutting
defining the
raw winter’s
scalloped
edge...
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Categories:
chantilly, cool, extended metaphor, kiss,
Form: Tetractys
Keep Boppin
...He hopped and bopped across the charts to the top
Until a tragic crop landing put him to a stop
Performed Chantilly lace for pretty faces
Chase young aces through melodical paces
Love notes ...
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Categories:
chantilly, music, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Mauve Picks a Winner
...Spindly stretching brambles rebel from main form
Amused bending stems eject spikes of rhino horn
Thorns barely a repellent for birds resourceful
Tweezer glowing twilight globe, a bitte...
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Categories:
chantilly, celebration, nature, purple, winter,
Form: Couplet
The Buttery
...Lisa, a freshman in our residential hall sister-suite, and I have become fast friends over the last couple of weeks. Before we began hanging out I penned a piece about her that she thought was hilari...
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Categories:
chantilly, 12th grade, autumn, culture,
Form: Free verse
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