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Bones
...In winter The forest becomes invisible This Is When the wood can be touched Such Tall And toppled tenderness Will not flinch Beyond Looking through The centuries exposed Forest fl......

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Categories: crisscrossed, age, courage, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stella
...Stella by Edmund Siejka We were visiting our grandchildren And heard that one of them Was having a hard time Freeing himself from a car seat Concerned or Perhaps just a little curious......

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Categories: crisscrossed, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming......

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Categories: crisscrossed, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Saturday, September 23, 2023
...Saturday, September 23, 2023 Coincides with first day of fall and Autumnal equinox for said year, where colorful splash kindled like tinder. After I riff flecked about thee August Autumn E......

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Categories: crisscrossed, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back Through a Front Windscreen
...Inevitably places have changed, where I was born looks like an alien city to me, it's now a tourist trap for indigenous aliens. The world was younger back then. people were more dangerous yet muc......

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Categories: crisscrossed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Art of Rain: a Windowpane Perspective
...Through crisscrossed muntin, patterns, and panes of clear glass, the world outside is painting itself gray, a wet mess of monochrome. Muted cars speed by, reflecting a leaden sky. Their moan......

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Categories: crisscrossed, devotion, growth, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Filigree
...Filigree Celtic Filigree Graceful filigree unbroken Weaves a tracery With strands entwined Like a whisper from the misty isles Woven into whorls of melodic unity, Indivisible spirals of the......

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Categories: crisscrossed, ireland, life,
Form: Free verse
Frost, Snow, Beautiful Cold
...Each naked tree embossed in hoar frost Branches crisscrossed and snow tossed Like glitter glossed in ice at nature's cost Until I exhaust, here I'm happy to be lost To roam through snow I am ju......

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Categories: crisscrossed, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Tailors Imagination
...Tailors’ quaint imagination For customers adoration: Only-God-knows inspiration He knows time of expiration: The crisscrossed and zigzagged entire, As they are what eyes require, Bejeweled ......

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Categories: crisscrossed, clothes, crush, imagination, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sad Christmas
... I find the Christmas season can be very sad, because it reminds me of all I have lost; my sister, grandma, grandpa, mom and dad, my husband and baby ... all names on stones mossed, ......

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Categories: crisscrossed, christmas, sad,
Form: Quintain (English)
Night Wanderlust
...footfalls … house to darkened house unhurried, muffled footfalls echo, passing lampposts shedding gold … pool of gold … pool of gold … wife's hand in mine like long ago, yes, long ago, ......

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Categories: crisscrossed, love, moon, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pondering On Our Love
...We sat for hours under the flame tree, In silence, we pondered life with glee. She wished for a breeze sitting at the quay, I yearned for mountains and some lovely ski. Variety is a spice that’s ......

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Categories: crisscrossed, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Coffee From a Styrofoam Cup
...Once I drank milk straight from the carton And guzzled beer out of a can, When I dripped gravy on my tie, I licked it up. But though my manners were appalling, One habit I would never fall in, I......

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Categories: crisscrossed, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Summer In Ames
...A voice inside said, come, come back to the place where my college years started. Burnt out I came back from college in Cedar Falls for the summer to a familiar place, and I was reborn. S......

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Categories: crisscrossed, places,
Form: Free verse
Legend
...The mine drowned the holler, many reallocated to trailer parks along the Interstate. The school dwindled, ran out of children became a garage for dead trucks, then a beer barn, then a Meth la......

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Categories: crisscrossed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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