Crafting a Masterpiece of Soul
...Scored, stained, painted, washing, squeezing.
Profound fingers duly pleasing.
A perfect sign is not one’s goal.
Crafting a masterpiece of soul.
Basic colors, silver and gold,
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Categories:
cubby, art, perspective,
Form: Kyrielle
witch's cauldron sets the mood
...witch’s cauldron had bit of a hiccup today
ghosts and goblins laughed about it a bit
Halloween humor lives beyond the fray
Dracula’s ghost appeared with a happy hey
some of the warlocks and wiz...
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Categories:
cubby, halloween,
Form: Villanelle
Earth Day April 22nd 2024
...Earth Day April 22nd 2024
I lament bidding Gaia's creatures adieu,
an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumben...
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Categories:
cubby, 12th grade, america, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Missing you
...Do only flesh and blood miss someone?
Not like plastic toys
Once played put back in a cubby
Collecting dust till it’s held again
But I’m made of flesh and blood
Not a toy with hands needing pla...
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Categories:
cubby, lonely, longing, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse
When Will I Not Love You
...When will I not love you
shall there be a distant flame
flickering beyond the warmth of
an Indian summer's sultry breeze
When will I not love you
will the sun rest on top of giant
umbrellas...
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Categories:
cubby, muse, music, romance, sea,
Form: Lyric
Forbode of Wilderness
...Deposited, held in Amazon's Adonis arms
Hidden inhospitably stashed, kite shadow
Curled furtive, stairway stupefied windshield
Hallucinations lag languished in amusement
Monk...
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Categories:
cubby, africa, bereavement, brother, children,
Form: Free verse
Peggy Cahill Divine Heavenly Lady
...Peggy Cahill divine heavenly lady
Saint Vincent dePaul Food Pantry
at Saint Mary's Parish
in Spring Mount blessed,
graced, and praised
courtesy grateful recipient,
he who crafts these words....
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Categories:
cubby, adventure, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Charles Schulz Peanuts Character Woodstock
...Charles Schulz Peanuts character Woodstock
Analogous to (being mine) security blanket
similar, but not identical
to the trademark one
clutched by Linus Van Pelt,
I take flight into sleep
cour...
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Categories:
cubby, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Paused
...At the deep shelf of night
a niche
a cubby-hole of stillness
Somewhere a hunt is on
somewhere there is death and feeding
but in this hollow mouth of the cosmos
you can rest
within your eyes
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Categories:
cubby, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Acknowledgement Forthcoming Today February 8th, 2022
...Acknowledgement forthcoming today February 8th, 2022
Matthew and Abby Harris
express gratitude concerning largesse
regarding quite a few bags of comestibles
plus two twenty five dollar gift car...
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Categories:
cubby, angel, blessing, devotion, february,
Form: Rhyme
The Wolf Is At the Door
...Silver and gold are the deceiver.
The Material World is maya, is illusion.
(Succor and destruction, the glittering
night turns outside the poor, beleaguered poet's basement window.)
He c...
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Categories:
cubby, art, celebration, creation, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Carmel By the Sea
...Image of Carmel by the Sea by Pixabay.
Carmel by the Sea
Three-quarter distance to the city
the rose bowl parade's held,
paying a friend another visit
as if the golden gate is no...
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Categories:
cubby, city, places, sea,
Form: Free verse
A Giant Major Shopping Ordeal
...12/06/2020 03:41 PM.
Imagine a long and winding line
all the way to Jabip
upon the handle of small grocery cart
envision mine white knuckle grip,
as the misses commandeers
moseying up and dow...
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Categories:
cubby, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Pallet Palace - It
...Spongy brown fingers quenched by gentle tide
Eerie boardwalk creaks near the white sandy beach*
Lapping crystal mix of silt risen rush
Injects me with lovely imaginings
Purrballs scooping milk wi...
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Categories:
cubby, animal, anxiety, cat, character,
Form: Verse
Grandma,S Kitchen
...GRANDMA’S KITCHEN
In her kitchen here,
Grandma’s welcoming cheer,
Embracing kids of kith-n-kin
And engaging with tasty treats pleasing,
From the mixing basin of pudding makings,
With licks of...
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Categories:
cubby, appreciation, blessing, celebration, food,
Form: Free verse
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