Villa Christina
the wind whispers
secrets only trees hear
dandelion spirits soar
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Categories:
christina, nature, peace, wind,
Form: Haiku
Lantern Of Light: Collab w Christina Bowring
Sparks aflame my sanctuary
Flickering, roaming glints
Over valleys of bygone years
So long kept in shadows
Traversing the bleakest darkness
Where heat of love evades
As the cool of Prussian blue night
Forms a silky silent shroud
Unravelling threads of sorrow's blinding
Guiding me from night to day
And through the hush, a glow emerges
Soft
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Categories:
christina, light,
Form: Free verse
Christina In Red
As she waits, dressed in his favorite red,
she waits alone in an old-fashioned world,
not a breath of wind dares tossel her head
nor a drop of rain though the sea is twirled
by unceasing tide in passage of time,
stilled for a moment, captured forever
with color magic while still in her prime,
who remembers her mortal endeavor?
No one remembers
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Categories:
christina, death, life, time,
Form: Sonnet
Christina Wrote A Sestina On The Nina
Christina why do you laugh
at the men with whom you make love?
Do you have beliefs, any hopes?
Do you cry?
Do you need?
Do you fear?
Christina tell me all your fears
Ignore the devil when he laughs
Like me I know you need
someone special to love
I say "In the rain we all cry
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Categories:
christina, allegory, cry, destiny, passion,
Form: Sestina
Emily
I do not know what's on your mind
I cannot ask, we are confined
To silence
You maybe want to share and chat
And tell your thoughts
Of this and that
So locked we are in soundless pose
Held secrets of our lone repose
Imagine we could read each thought
Communicate while saying naught
We may become just silent friends
Before the day of silence ends
And
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Categories:
christina, friendship, solitude, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
Christina
Once a muse named Christina
who had the wisdom of Athena
made a suggestion
sage without question
and I followed into that arena
she recommended that I write
‘bout fairy tale characters with bite
now there are many
to choose aplenty
I’ll be writing late into the night
Although Christina does not know it
she's turned me to a kind of poet
who can be silly
write willy
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Categories:
christina, funny, muse, poets, silly,
Form: Limerick
Emagi - a Baby's Cradle By Christina Rossetti
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Categories:
christina, baby,
Form: Shape
To My Daughters, Alexandria and Christina
My daughters, I’m so very proud of you.
You have grown to become, fine young women.
Let not your hearts or lives be ruled by men.
Stand fast, and to your own desires be true.
Take what you need, but no more than your due.
Act cautiously, you are noblewomen.
Speak softly for, you are gentlewomen.
Let integrity shine, in all you
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Categories:
christina, daughter, family, father daughter,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Christina
The poetess Christina Rossetti,
Once sat at the end of a jetty,
The words wouldn't come,
So she sucked on her thumb,
Then wrote a small ode on spaghetti!!
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Categories:
christina, poetess,
Form: Limerick
Christina
Christina is pretty
She always looks nice
Her boyfriend loves her
He kissed her twice
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Categories:
christina, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
Christina
He left her on the dance floor.
Her Ceasar on the blend.
Her jubilee of laughter
she danced to heights on end.
As chirping on her cell phone
alerted her to laughter.
and all the unknown callers
were hers for chasing after.
When something interrupted
she couldn't understand.
Her friends were yelling at her
come here; you're still unmanned.
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Categories:
christina, absence, analogy, appreciation, boyfriend,
Form: Quatrain
The Poet's Pluck - Christina Rossetti
The Poet’s Pluck – Christina Rossetti
In MY DREAM I see A PORTRAIT
And REMEMBER a girl I used to know,
SHE SAT AND SANG a loving song
Of a boy from Oh, so long ago.
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Categories:
christina, absence, art, remember, time,
Form: Quatrain
In Honor of Christina Grimmie
A heart like hers was true,
To me, I always felt like I knew you.
To many, a blessing you were,
When all of a sudden, there came a blur.
It all came down fast like the rain,
Giving my heart the greatest pain.
On the floor, I was curled up in a ball.
I was ready to crumble and fall.
On my
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Categories:
christina, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Christina, Puff of Smoke
When we were nine
and yearning, outcasted
I did not understand the bruised
nature of your soul. Perhaps I
do not understand even now.
I remember
how I criticized you for the way
you sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
in your warbling baby voice
also how you were the only one
who ever acknowledged me.
I remember
how you lived with grandparents, aunts
instead of your methhead
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Categories:
christina, addiction, angst, change, corruption,
Form: Free verse
A Painting Called Christina
Each subject breathes in a different way
with intimacy I can feel
Where images will call me
to fall into the spell.
Emotion draws me
to the place where
Christina's
beauty
dwelled
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Based on the paintings of Andrew Wyeth
And his series of "Christina"
12//10/15
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Categories:
christina, art,
Form: Nonet
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