Knowing Angels
...Angels are almost silent
Subtle
treadbare steppers
subliminal stalkers
determinedly quiet
except at choir
a pair of cherubic hums
can equivalate
to the drones
of a billion bee...
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Categories:
coronets, angel, evil, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Eulogizing
...A lover and a brother are heavy.
Recounting the contents of life is work.
A vessel holding unaccountable dust
may be volumes for a biographer’s notepad.
“I miss she real bad!”
Whittl...
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Categories:
coronets, absence, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Birdsong Prayer
...at the crack of dawn
oh what joy rest inside the heart
while my heart revolves around
the wild scent of the blue moon
nest the black-tailed cockatoo
white and yellow crown displayed
black and o...
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Categories:
coronets, imagery, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Coronation
...The golden sunshine
Adorns the hilltops with such
Royal coronets......
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Categories:
coronets, beautiful, beauty, love, mountains,
Form: Haiku
Kismat
...Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
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Categories:
coronets, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
I Am Not Brave
...How brave the amaryllis is
emerging naked from the soil,
an umber golden spear to pierce
the heresy of August air.
I am not brave like pilgrim bulbs,
though planted fifty years ago,
still sen...
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Categories:
coronets, color, flower, metaphor, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Horses
...Competition day had arrived,
His muzzle twitched with anticipation
And in relation my feet tingled in a way like never before.
For the first time, we both doubted ourselves
But fear not, we mus...
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Categories:
coronets, animal, confidence, horse, i
Form: I do not know?
Horses
...Fine tussled forelock hides unbridled pain
from stifle-lameness acknowledged too late,
withering lesser those few that remain
watching as Stormcloud takes one final gait.
Soft ...
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Categories:
coronets, horse,
Form: Quatrain
New World Order
...The Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison yard,
boast brazen bayonets
and unicorns flaunt ivory horns
defe...
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Categories:
coronets, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Earth Eclipsing the Sun Again
...love is such a curious thing
the pitter-patter of the morning rain
the earth eclipsing the sun again
a flourish of brass horns and coronets
a baby nursing from mother's breast
the winds blowi...
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Categories:
coronets, imagination, earth, sun,
Form: Free verse
Converse...
...Conversations confusing
Google bots are oozing as I type
Quiet yet quite the riot
Gents lament a Goddess rant
Counting Coronets that can’t…
Hailing comments that She shan’t
Whale her song from ...
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Categories:
coronets, adventure, friendship, funnysong, song,
Form: I do not know?
Lightening Be This Storm
...Lightening storms have eyes
To silence this rain
Bring your swift golden chariots
Beat on your drum
Blow through your brass coronets
Lightening be this storm...
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Categories:
coronets, imagination
Form: Free verse