Night Dreams
...In the quiet slipstream of night,
where thoughts unfurl like tendrils of smoke,
some dismiss dreams as mere echoes—
brain farts, they jest,
leftover gas from our wakeful hours.
But dre...
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Categories:
daylit, dream, night,
Form: Free verse
Grant Wood: American Gothic
...stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?
why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to t...
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Categories:
daylit, america, farm, symbolism,
Form: Ekphrasis
Daylit Moon
...The distant pings of a windchime
Dance around my head like fairies
My lungs fill with the warm breeze
But my eyes are distracted
By a white stamp against the blue sky
Everything I've learned...
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Categories:
daylit, beauty, day, earth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Hedgehog Visits
...I smell the muggles coming,
Came to me in dreams
I dreamt in fields of bamboo and willow.
Willows weep upon the pillows
Of rabbit holes well nested
Nests of fur and grasses sweet,
Sweeter are t...
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Categories:
daylit, dream, nature, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Phoenix Rites- a Dedicated Poem To Andreanna Escamilla
...Brilliant shines your words
as the sun in the skies
Shorn Essence sharing's spikes
delightful deserving writes
Encompasses those days lit Stars
they do shine so bright as . the Phoenix Writ...
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Categories:
daylit, 7th grade, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Two Murders - Part I
...1.
In the slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take place, unseen, unfelt
In woo...
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Categories:
daylit, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse