A Stoics Chlorophyll Corona
...Sonnet I
In realms of emerald hush where sunlight strains.
Through veils of green. A silent throng takes root.
A clovered congregation on the plains
Their stoic forms a timeless lushful ...
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Categories:
clovered, feelings, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Home To Ireland
...I've never been to Ireland—
never seen the patchwork landscape
spreading, green, through a hazy sunlight.
Gray oceans crashing on rocky shores,
craggy mountains climbing
toward billowing skies—
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Categories:
clovered, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Shamrock Dreams
...As if the grass had leaves
my feet glide freely on the breeze
where a blade is not nearly a leaf
and the shamrock steals my luck like a thief.
The four clovered dreams predict a promise
that...
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Categories:
clovered, silly, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Remembering Spring
...A pewter mirror cracks in veins of jade,
ensconced I've been in winter's house of drear.
Aback I'm taken, palpable my fear
to see my likeness in such pallid shade.
Though loathe am I to venture s...
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Categories:
clovered, metaphor, nature, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Dogwood
...The blood and lapis daylight sets
in ether. How the mind resets
brutality of winter chill
with February's codicil;
what gossamer a dream begets.
I hear the crickets in the dark,
their clickin...
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Categories:
clovered, dream, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Quintilla
When We Were Eight
...When you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you discover
with your co-empathy integrity
of left-deductive
with elder right inductive
communionations?
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Categories:
clovered, adventure, age, culture, home,
Form: Free verse
Barefoot Waltz
...Merge with me in a summer waltz,
our arms entwined, our fingers laced.
Your scented skin strokes my face,
tickles, prickles, excites, ignites;
barefoot we skim the clovered green.
The park sur...
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Categories:
clovered, dance, kiss, romantic,
Form: Free verse
The Seasons of Love
...Oh, love in spring, you’re peridot,
and new’s the grass; with dew - aglow!
On clovered knoll ourselves we fling.
You’re peridot, oh love in spring!
In summer’s sun, love blazes red,...
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Categories:
clovered, love, seasons,
Form: Quatrain
Cheap Cologne
...a nascar napolean quick with
a word and slow with his step.
wanders out of oscars the bar across
the freeway from my house where
cars race by like clovered bees.
they honeysu...
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Categories:
clovered, allegory
Form: I do not know?
I Belong To My Dreams
...Velvet skies, with stars aligned, come to meet my dreams. The clovered pillow beneath my
locks, that holds my head tonight. I close my eyes, as a compromise, to that which met
the day. Torture ca...
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Categories:
clovered, confusion, happiness, imagination, life,
Form: I do not know?