Vintage Photography
...Images from a cogged box.
A camera reveals
hips and ankles, ribbons
decorously draped
over a contrived modesty.
An artist has added a color tint,
their cheeks are rosy,
their lips red,
a pa...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
we who loved America
...We Who Loved America (first part)
It was a humid August evening in 1958
when the cargo ship
I served as a galley helper docked in NEW York
I was mesmerized by the tall buildings
the tallest bu...
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Categories:
decorously, absence, addiction, april, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Happy shiny tummy courtesy I REM ember in place of stipend
...Happy shiny tummy courtesy...I REM ember in place of stipend
An appetizer, essentially an
out of this world guacamole
quasi Neptune salad,
regarding self taught cook
earning prized counterpart...
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Categories:
decorously, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Little Bridges
...Stubbs Park is decorously rampant,
its paths scamper here and there
like unruly children.
The original landscapers ran riot,
for they planted arching spans
...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Beneath Her Lips
...Beneath the tender kiss
she is curled around a log-fire of lust.
Her eyes reveal, and yet she masks that heat
with a smile.
Lips tenderly caress, decorously suggest -
but only so much
they at...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
August Legends
...The sky is news-worthy
the day brightly published,
up-town where the trees live
sunshine plays in the streets.
Later, in the wild-walking cities
there will be donuts;
racers will twirl while ...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Quintessential Poet Queen For Elizabeth Wesley
...A lady who once touched my mind
in ways I could not decorously describe,
because she did so from afar
through her thoughts and words that shined like stars.
She wrote of love and hate and war
...
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Categories:
decorously, allusion, appreciation, bereavement, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
A Vintage Viewing
...Images from a cogged apparatus.
Fingertips toggle milled brass
abreast a concertinaing leather.
Tripodal spread, pegged legs.
Women paused in pose,
a gilded stillness.
A plump bosom peek-show...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch
...
"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"
She takes the cake
they offer, chewing too rapidly,
she Shrews when she speaks
I’ll beat wa...
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Categories:
decorously, integrity, mirror, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Bridges of Stubbs Park
...Stubbs Park is decorously rampant,
its paths scamper here and there
like unruly children.
Perhaps its topographical language
once spoke of bridges
for the landscapers have run riot
planting ...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Novosibirsk
...I live in a city that has a soul,
He talks to us as we walk,
Just be quiet and listen a little,
The stories of the city are about everything.
It's good to walk around Novosibirsk,
Trees stand ...
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Categories:
decorously, city, society, sympathy, travel,
Form: Blank verse
A World Without Pity Part Ii
...I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;
After I had lost a home, where I'd lived my life long,
So they could build a highway, for the bus...
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Categories:
decorously, adventure, earth, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Vintage ***********
...Women dipped in inks.
Images from a cogged box.
A camera reveals
hips and ankles, ribbons
decorously draped
over a contrived modesty.
An artist has added a color tint,
their cheeks...
...
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Categories:
decorously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Her Meteor
...Actually, I am not a good forecaster
And She was not that good forecaster
Audibly none is that perfect worthily
Adducing, we all are artists worthily.
But she did not know well to count
Boldly...
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Categories:
decorously, africa, lonely, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Wisteria
...Welcome, welcome my dear friends!
Come join me in my bower.
Lavender, lovely and luscious am I,
A most seductive flower.
My pendulous blooms they dangle,
Like grapes upon a vine.
Clusters of ...
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Categories:
decorously, beautiful, flower,
Form: Quatrain
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