A VALENTINES FAIRWELL
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No chocolates, no flowers, no sweet Valentine's treat,
Just the bitter taste of defeat.
No cuddles, no kisses, no romance so grand,
Because, darling, you just couldn't handle this hand.
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Categories:
dazzlingly, break up, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Kites - 23 October 2022
...Jan Juc Primary School
Annual Fundraiser
A Kite Festival
Perfect day
Windy, warm
Families crowd onto the lawn
Above Fisherman's Beach
Prams, dogs, wheelchairs
Giggling youngsters
Parents...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, flying,
Form: Free verse
Sunspotting You
...you’re bright
so dazzlingly, overwhelmingly bright;
you’re the sun that sears the sky and
all the earth can only stare
i want to hold you
to cup you in my hands
to feel your warmth between ...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, allusion, analogy, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
DAYSTAR
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Devotional devotees dazzlingly delight
At an amazing aurora’s star of abiding light;
You’re yawl-like year-round of Yahweh’s areole-sight,
Starlight of sunshine, st...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, star,
Form: Acrostic
she will find something to play with
...I am sure she is awake from her nap, my daughter said.
I ran up to get her; she is two and dazzlingly beautiful.
She is my granddaughter, Molly Mackenzie Cat.
I changed her pants and brought her d...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, grandchild,
Form: Prose Poetry
art with a niece
...paint on her fingers
glitter on her nose
five-year-old playing
kneading and claying
Auntie know her heart
they’re not long apart
joyful lovely day
oozing cares away
art is in their souls
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Categories:
dazzlingly, art,
Form: Rhyme
Carolins Snake Dresser
...She invited me to see her dresser; she was featuring snakes on it.
They are marvelous- attractive, shiny, glitzy, delightful, she said.
I avoided the unveiling for six months, not fond of snakes.
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Categories:
dazzlingly, women,
Form: Free verse
On the Other Side of 27
...I've made promises to survive before
To those I'd never see again
To those who couldn't keep it themselves
To those who don't know I exist
And here I am on the other side of 27
Having known th...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Whiskey Moon Wild Wish
...Written: September 16, 2023
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In arrant essence, without a fight,
Herald of vamps, in the dead of night
Ushers a raw wav...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, analogy, appreciation, dance, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Queens Crown
...queens crown
emeralds
diamond ruby
dazzlingly flashy
daydream...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, history,
Form: Cinqku
Letting Go of the Darkness
...Letting go of the Darkness
By Michelle Morris
27/07/2020
Don't be afraid of the
Darkness in your heart or the
Demons that torture your soul...
Accept it.
Embrace it.
Face it.
Convers...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, dark, identity, life, light,
Form: Free verse
10 of a Kind
...If my usual wasn't so ordinary
And didn't span great feats of generic
It may just be shy of extraordinary
A mediocrity so bland I'm hysteric
Enormity in normalcy's highest gear
Worked out so ...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
A Spring Melody
...Awed by the hypnotic sound and melody
of your gold-toned harmony
requested a single flower
as a memento of
your lyrical mysticism
yet, you brought on a tide of bliss
melodious...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, analogy, appreciation, spring,
Form: Free verse
Vase
...Bulbous, flat, keel-like ridge, and in other shapes I see you,
Curved or carved; you shine painted in red, green, purple, or blue;
As the rainbow is placed splendidly on bone china clay,
With many...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, flower, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Loved One
...Death of a loved one
Fifty-five years! More or less! I did not know, then,
How, to your adieu, o mother, I said Amen;
Later, like the ache of an amputated limb,
Existence, like a gloom-glaring ...
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Categories:
dazzlingly, death,
Form: Rhyme
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