Curtsey Poems - Poems about Curtsey

To Be Or Not To Be The End

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When Mr Darcy brought my hand to his lips
Drenched in sweet longing before the scale tips
I, fraught with naivety and desire
Held trust cast into the furnace of mire

Dear friend, two offsprin...

Prodigree 1

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     Roads of gold and gates of pearl are thoughts solidified, finding resting place here, 
having been purified, first, in a trial by fire- 
in the bulwarked organ 
of love's pineal desire....

Song of The White Willow No 6: AABB

...Venture advances, the future ... occurs,
the White Willow trees, best found by rivers
edge. Salix alba, and 'Tristis' means sad,
hence, 'Weeping', yet the essence seems to add
a picturesque of a ...

La Ferme

...It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...

Flowers

...wet, heavy blossoms
curtsey low to the drenched earth,
crying tears of rain

warm, sun-kissed petals
pirouette into gold light,
arched to the summer sky...

Music Box

...Movement pivots lid lifted, Pandora astonishes
      Actions perpetual pirouette dancer acknowledges
      Glamour glues sockets smooth, figurine believed 
      Image incorporates graceful, a fig...

Arose

...Darkness imbues sunlight,
 Stars adorn pitch of night.
 Pristine as north winds blow,
 Huddled in loam, primroses grow.

Razor clouds streak across sky,
 Starkly bleeding is dawn to eye.
 Sang...

I Am Here

...Here I am
a feeble wisp of stale 
warm breath 
just about to kiss 
the crisp air at dawn…

I am a lonesome fickle thought 
drifting alongside a fluffy cloud 
thankful that I too 
get to be 
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Traveling People

...The wagons are circled. The horses are tethered.  
Shadows lay stretched the full length of the day. 
Amid the aroma of canvas and leather, 
Stew pots tempt children who’ve come out to play.

A ...

Curtain Call

...T0 Spencer Snyder, age 80

		Curtain Call    
He signed you for a starring role, with no time to rehearse,
None had played the part before, so no-one better or worse,
Been a long run and the fol...

Wakey Wakey

...Red rooster is crowing, perched on a split rail fence,
In the bloom of a rosy dawn, when all nature is tense.
In the chocolate colored trees, of the emerald leaves,
Baby bluebirds are cheeping, to...

Abstract Watercolors

...I was cooped inside all the afternoon,
Missing tree and bush and garden madness;
But from my window I saw abstract blooms,
In rain's watercolors, nature's canvas!

They brightened the day, in ab...

Blithesome Ballerina

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                     Blithesome Ballerina

The braided, lithe, ten year old ballerina,
Stepped out into her huge, beautiful yard.
Ah~ That delicious scent of a Midwest spring!
Running ba...

The Belle of the Ball - Repost

...Note: This is a long one. Just a warning before you start reading. : ) 


Outside the walls stood a handmaiden gazing
Twisting her skirt between fingers so frail
Patches of burlap were sewn ...

Military Manners

...A maid wore her Sunday-best dress
To dine at the Officers Mess
Where officers go
One must curtsey low 
So officers don't have to guess...

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