Memories of Jessie
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(A lone voice whispers)
It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom
Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes
The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wil...
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Categories:
deep brown, grief,
Form: Rhyme
a portrait of a family at a dinner table
...Father is dressed in grim face and a white shirt,
His unfriendly face could win the heart of Hitler –
mother combed her hair this time
and her deep brown eyes carries heavy love for her family.
i...
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Categories:
deep brown, abuse, grief,
Form: Sonnet
The Universe
...How did I get here…?
It was of course no accident
yet I would never willfully do this to myself
nor anyone I love.
I don’t think this feeling has fully sunk in yet.
It’s almost as if I’m watc...
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Categories:
deep brown, change, love,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For Ginger
...Ginger was the foster teen I met at the school bus stop
In spite of her burns she was so beautiful and strong
Never forgot her long eyelashes and deep brown eyes
Given by her parents like her sev...
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Categories:
deep brown, abuse, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic
Strawberries
...A big, glass bowl of oranges
with eight pleated butterflies—
perfectly symmetrical
etched along the side.
The sunlight, with all the eagerness,
all the youth of morning
pouring through...
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Categories:
deep brown, fruit, love,
Form: Free verse
Lost Words
...I'm all choked up
my words are lost.
for one more
look at you
I'd sell my soul
and become
a modern day faust.
Your deep brown eyes
pull me into a place,
unlike any I've ever been
and ...
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Categories:
deep brown, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Seed
...A tiny seed, planted in the muddy ground.
With plentiful sunshine and sparkling water, it grew.
A deep brown trunk, tall and round,
Reaching up to the sky, so bright and blue.
Lots of thick bra...
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Categories:
deep brown, beauty, flower, fruit, growing
Form: Quatrain
My Love Divine Love and My Song-
...My Beloved, my love divine,
My heart is yours, and yours is mine.
Your deep brown eyes, they fill me with glee,
Your sweet and caring nature, it sets me free.
Your worship and p...
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Categories:
deep brown, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Central Face
...I answer to the norm
the strangest decorum
in the Northern Hemisphere
I have a longing to be free
Burning seeds
their husks weep
In valleys of sleep
Two tulips niggardly cling
to the here...
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Categories:
deep brown, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
First Lettered Love
...Can a girl be so in love?
All thoughts revolve around what lies beneath those brown curls
Listening close for any mention of his name
Every chance she gets, she’ll speak of him
Be it his deep bro...
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Categories:
deep brown, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
Paddy
...Paddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories:
deep brown, dog,
Form: Prose
At the Hollywood Plaza With Eddie and Dolores
...Anti-Poem – “At The Hollywood Plaza With Eddie And Dolores”
(Poet’s Instruction – Kindly play “You Can’t Be True, Dear,” by Ken Griffin, 1946, while reading).
she be smelling mighty good my dol...
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Categories:
deep brown, america, fantasy, imagination, romantic
Form: Free verse
Proof of Life
...Earlier in the week I was pretty sick and Peter was pampering me. One night, as Peter was taking away my tea tray, I took a selfie to send to my mom - as proof of life.
He looked at it from the sid...
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Categories:
deep brown, boyfriend, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Tuesday
...It’s Tuesday morning. I’d thought, until Leeza corrected me, that Thanksgiving was today.
“Thanksgiving always falls on Thursday, dorkus,” Leeza said Sunday, at breakfast (extirpating my...
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Categories:
deep brown, friendship, fun, holiday, new
Form: Free verse
The Furrowed Charm
...The melancholic pair of his deep brown eyes, depicts the contusion of his heart,
his stained skin and the deep furrows shows, how viciously he was torn apart. .
The bruise on his feet, the scra...
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Categories:
deep brown, absence, age, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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