Holding Onto Memories
...stepping towards you
for the first time
everything around seeming blurry blues
except for us in red taking the spotlight
with pale skies and cold weather outside
you were like the sunshine
s...
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Categories:
crowd together, cute, february, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Simplification An Open Form
...SIMPLIFICATION
misted
moments
thoughts
crowd together
tantalises
to
contemplate
their fragility
where
thinking deep
&at
a
distance
in
the
rain
&
tumble
of everyday
bower o...
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Categories:
crowd together, poetry,
Form: Other
Gray Skies
...Stormy night on a haunted street
All night, the sun and the rain compete
When dawn breaks, the people crowd together
To observe all the terrors
Committed by nightfall
The horror and disgust...
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Categories:
crowd together, environment,
Form: Verse
After Snow Melt
...AFTER SNOW MELT
Their burden shed, trees now svelte -
Hidden beauties in luxuriant fir mantles
Stripped, sunning in balm light.
Grass, spruce, stream,
Once blank and touchless,
Crow...
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Categories:
crowd together, snow,
Form: Free verse
Cancel Him, Part I
...Once there was a smallish town
where the people all lived free,
it could be raucous at times,
as free folks are wont to be.
But into this came a man
who said, “We must do better,
some who speak...
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Categories:
crowd together, culture, evil, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
A Winter's Sonnet
...A Winter's Sonnet
From a heavenly atmosphere,
Feathery ice sculptures appear.
Mingling snowflakes crowd together,
Each flake unique with character.
Speckling fluffs in rhythmic cadenc...
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Categories:
crowd together, appreciation, inspiration, inspirational, snow,
Form: Sonnet
Dandelions
...While waiting for warmer days to arrive
We coddle our seedlings to keep them alive
And make sure they're watered and sheltered and fed
For a draft of cold air could strike them dead
And r...
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Categories:
crowd together, environment, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
He Compares the Sonnet To An Orchard
...A fecund and well-tended plot of ground,
the sonnet is a stage, a sacred place
where thought and things aesthetic interlace,
where all that charms the senses may be found.
Delights of sight, ...
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Categories:
crowd together, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Cloud People
...Houses creep closer together
Inch by foot by yard by mile
Until you see your neighbor smile.
Cities spread their urban sprawl
Hour after month after week
If earth cannot breath, she will speak...
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Categories:
crowd together, people, society, world,
Form: Rhyme
Last Night I Dreamt
...LAST NIGHT I DREAMT
Today it is stormy outside
thunder, lightning even cold hail preside
cozy and warm against tempestuous weather
once again my thoughts crowd together
I choose to acknowle...
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Categories:
crowd together, adventure, angel, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Photographer
...Skies gray and rains blow;
Trees sway and creak like old stairs.
Thunder rolls and booms.
The den lights go out.
On the brown faux leather couch
Kids crowd together.
Whites of their eyes sh...
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Categories:
crowd together, black african american, childhood,
Form: Haiku
From Cold Wet Earth
...The dead are rising from the cold wet earth
The sticking clods to them gives birth
Hands reach up to the black night sky
The hoard arises and with out a cry
Row on row of corpulent flesh
Comi...
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Categories:
crowd together, death, introspection, life, lossme,
Form: Rhyme