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Holiday Doldrums

...The holidays come so fast, then gone,
scarce time to enjoy just the moment.
Family waves ‘hello’ and ‘so long’
as they revel in that bestowment.
Hugs and kisses are memories’ song.

Days in rar...

Categories: decima, family, friend, holiday, introspection,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Mission Accomplished

...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
We dance, mutate and celebrate: another perfect host. 
The old make easy prey, we watch them gasp
and slip away.  And our kind are not averse 

to the odd doctor or nurse, r...

Categories: decima, 8th grade, analogy, body,
Form: Free verse

Black Lives

...BLACK LIVES
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My friend bridles. Huh! All lives matter. Is she is being 
deliberately obtuse? Should I add ‘’too’’ or ‘’do?’’

She adds, I’ve blacks in my family. We had
indigenous girls in nur...

Categories: decima, 4th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Masked

...MASKED
How dare you demand I wear 
a mask. My civil rights are all I ask.
Force me to do so and I’ll sue.
What else is a citizen to do?

Soon she coughs and sneezes – 
Droplets float, on gentl...

Categories: decima, 4th grade, conflict, cry,
Form: Free verse

Glacial

...GLACIAL
Scent of lilies. 
His pain over, mine just begun.
I caressed those hands, gifted, loving.
Kissed his waxen brow.

A blink away from the dying sun,
the ignition key trembled.
I half-ex...

Categories: decima, 5th grade, absence, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Love

...LOVE
Afternoon windows glittered gold.
Shadowed,
by a black and white meow. 

T-R-I-X-I-E! 
Our calls to no avail. And nobody had seen 
a missing cat. She wailed to me in moonlight.

A neigh...

Categories: decima, 4th grade, cat, death,
Form: Free verse

Revelation

...REVELATION
It was ages since we ‘d met. I dread her visits.
The melodrama and discord leave me unmoored.

My sister’s hugs morphed into stones, dropped one by one. 
Words hitting dark water. Cir...

Categories: decima, abuse, allegory, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

E N D Y M I O N - the Decima Style

...~Endymion~
(Decima)


Endymion some poets say
Was a King some say a hunter
But most believe a shepherd fair
And a youth of great beauty too
Then she the moon Selene saw him
Loved him and com...

Categories: decima, beautiful, character, love, moon,
Form: Free verse

Never, Always, Sometimes

...NEVER will I stop loving you
It does not matter what you say
You have a place with me to stay
No matter what you ever do
ALWAYS know what I say is true
You do not have to feel the ...

Categories: decima, encouraging, family, i miss
Form: Rhyme

Endymion - the Decima Style

...~Endymion~
(Decima)


Endymion some poets say
Was a King some say a hunter
But most believe a shepherd fair
And a youth of great beauty too
Then she the moon Selene saw him
Loved him and com...

Categories: decima, beautiful, character, love, moon,
Form: Free verse

Endymion - Decima

...(Decima) 


Endymion some poets say 
Was a king some say a hunter 
But most believe a shepherd fair 
And a youth of great beauty too 
Then She the moon Selene saw him 
Loved him and c...

Categories: decima, beautiful, beauty, lost love,
Form: Verse

Brutus Iulius Trois Page 02

...Brutus Iulius Trois page 02

Where Trojans are there will be Troy
In Hesperia  the elder cousins the new Dardanoi 
the sons of Silvanus Dardanus shall inherit
and Lavinia's bloodline shall dwind...

Categories: decima, history,
Form: Epic

Heavenly Spring

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Heavenly Spring
(Decima)

Colorful  blooming pear and apple trees
Beautiful within the first weeks of spring
Everything is heavenly blossoming
With gentle blowing winds and humming ...

Categories: decima, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse