Within the Dirt, Stars Form
...Dusting the floor,
my broom wrestles
with the cobwebs lingering
from yesterday's sales,
all around the ceramics
the threads poke
in all directions,
I kick the dustpan
and the dirt crystalize...
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Categories:
crystalizes, appreciation, art, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams
...Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you can...
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Categories:
crystalizes, emotions, extended metaphor, fear,
Form: Free verse
Word
...
Words are emotion's instrument,
language elementals playing verse's lament, consciousness', lined segment.
Like a Toon, in idea delineation,
incharacterizing, crystalizes styl...
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Categories:
crystalizes, art,
Form: Rhyme
Sunrise In Clayton
...The frosted grass reflected the tangerine skies
As the sunrise starts a dance across glistening fields,
Peeking through bare oaks and green towering pines
As if to sneak views at the beauty which ...
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Categories:
crystalizes, imagery, morning, nature, sun,
Form: Quatrain
A Word of Wisdom
...BY: CAROLYN COWAN
2019 is a year to build endurance. When you reach the limit
and feel you can't go on, go a little further. It will build inner
strength and perseverance.
As an offering t...
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Categories:
crystalizes, courage,
Form: Narrative
Nothing But the Ice
...A cold north wind blows through the moor
Whimpering timeless sadness
Morose beyond fathomability
Like an icy knife cutting through your veins
Your blood stains the snow
That crystalizes your l...
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Categories:
crystalizes, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Elements Part 3: Water
...We cannot do without water,
But it could do without us
If we choose!
Bodies of living things are made up
of mostly water, squashy plants,
Blood and Lymph included too.
Without Hydration, ...
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Categories:
crystalizes, animal, health, humanity, mountains,
Form: Verse
Cold Paper and Warm Heart
...Diamonds originate
In the thoughts
Of poets.
(What jewels form
In the patterns
Of stanzas?)
When your
Soul’s Breath
Crystalizes
Against
The pressure
Of cold paper
And warm heart....
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Categories:
crystalizes, allegory, muse, poems,
Form: Free verse
Thaw
...Sometimes I slip
slip to that world of numb smiles,
flavourless fruit,
damp emotion--
words so watered with the heart's blood
they weigh like anchors down my chest.
The food suddenly tastele...
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Categories:
crystalizes, love,
Form: Free verse
On Peace
...What reason for peace to be, so elusive
of discovery?
Amid the deafening cadence of change
tracks of timeless wanderings
lead unto remote beginnings
through the darker side of life.
Undaunted, ...
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Categories:
crystalizes, introspection, peace, peace,
Form: I do not know?