Glorious mud
...A simple recipe of water, silt, soil and clay
Nature's potion; so powerful, so useful, so dangerous
Uncontrollable and untethered is this egalitarian mixture
Loved and loathed by human and animal
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Categories:
colourfully, environment, fate, life, natural
Form: Free verse
Do You Really Think We're Made for Each Other?
...My love for you is like a crashing plane:
exhilarating pace, without control:
you’re equatorial around the pole.
Why meet my sunshine with torrential rain?
My heart is Dealey Plaza, you’re on Mai...
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Categories:
colourfully, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
The Emperor's Reply
...Why weren't any of the great emperors, or even those of lesser renown, enticed to acquire such a rich piece of land in the East? There aren’t much of historical archives shedding light on the subject...
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Categories:
colourfully, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose
A Short Break
...
In a City full of travellers, I decided to
stay awhile,
This visiting visitor was venturing,
The streets were colourfully decorated,
crowded and bustling,
People were dressed in sparkly co...
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Categories:
colourfully, celebration, food, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Too nascent to be called seasoned
...I've been meaning to write for a long time.
but sometimes
my words willingly remain hostage
in my heart.
Not wanting to be heard.
Covered and crumpled.
I cannot sink in
I am 18.
it's fri...
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Categories:
colourfully, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Falling
...
At first
love floats like a snowflake,
until it melts in your hand.
Then it falls,
like an Autumn leaf,
eventually swept away in the breeze.
Sometimes love offers mercy,
like April sh...
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Categories:
colourfully, analogy, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Mardi Gras
...Mardi Gras has finally come to town
Bourbon Street is getting ready for the best party around
Let the party begin as the neon lights get the revellers dancing through the streets
Music from vari...
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Categories:
colourfully, color, music, people,
Form: Rhyme
Horizons a Freed Verse
...HORIZONS
clear
level &
pivotal
&
holds
a delicate
light
ascending
in
contrasting
reflections
enigmatic
surrounding
frieze
stunning
& compelling
this phenomenal
world
of wonder...
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Categories:
colourfully, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Most Beautiful Christmas Poem
...(Thank God, when I posted my poem a second time , I could enter it in the contest. But I am retaining my old post as I have many comments on it . I thank all my poet friends who helped me with sugges...
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Categories:
colourfully, bible, birth, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas In July
...July is the month of monsoon rains in our part of the land when there will be incessant downpour and flooding in coastal areas and low lying lands
In the vast expanse up so high,
In the caligino...
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Categories:
colourfully, birthday, celebration, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Understatement
...UNDERSTATEMENT
language
confirms
the
familiar
even a weakness
angst
melodrama
wonder
the
significant
reciprocated
precisely
a
modern echo
momentarily
a
slight
fore...
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Categories:
colourfully, poetry,
Form: Other
Another Autumn Arrival
...Emerald leaves, tall-standing trees A stronghold of burly branches
At Mother Nature’s gentle whisper Colourfully, a canopy transforms and unveils
Burnt oranges, rich crimsons, and butternut golds J...
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Categories:
colourfully, autumn, beauty, change, loss,
Form: Free verse
Afterwards
...Afterwards.
Didn’t we once used to smile and laugh?
I can see that we seemed to be happy
As I look at an old photograph.
But now our mouths
Seem almost paralysed
Or are tight and grim.
I va...
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Categories:
colourfully, change, conflict, dark, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Grackles
...Grackles
I rambled along a city street
Going nowhere with no one to meet.
When I espied grackles in a tree,
Stretching and heckling between the leaves.
Purplish headed, black feathered ...
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Categories:
colourfully, bird, inspiration, nature, tree,
Form: Lyric
Oh That Colourful Design
...OH THAT COLOURFUL DESIGN…
That colourfully designed paper that can make one insane…
Crazily sought after by young and old,
Humans live on it till they die
Always throwing men into mayhem.
P...
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Categories:
colourfully, christian,
Form: Free verse
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