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Premium Member Holiday Fun
...Holiday Fun Limerick Contest 1-9-25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holiday Fun Frosty the snowman liked tricks Consumed apple juice for kicks Left yellow puddles We were befu......

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Categories: delft, holiday, humor,
Form: Limerick
Mother Said
...Mother said, “Avoid the bilge,” Keep your dreams clear, don’t let them delve. No depth in anger, nor strife, “Steer clear of paths where woes are felt.” Do not let your heart be like a delft, ......

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Categories: delft, 1st grade, absence, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
...Self-Portrait 1-12-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels Still life, not stillborn, With a woman’s face In dus......

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Categories: delft, birth, fruit, life, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Language of Blue
...The Language of Blue Sinking into the lyrical language of blue Prime layers of still solitude speak With muted voices In sapphire soprano rhapsodies, Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks ......

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Categories: delft, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse
Angiogram Plan
...I’m going for an angiogram With slanted rhymes I state my plan In verse and meter try to cram My words with all that old flim-flam Since Days when I lay in my pram This ticker’s beat to master......

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Categories: delft, health,
Form: Rhyme



Boundless Blue
...Boundless Blue Born in a misty rainbow, Blue slips out from her place between her sisters Green and Violet, painting the heavens azure, covering the earth like the robe of Virgin Mary. She fl......

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Categories: delft, beauty, blue, color, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Wait
...The coffee cup, cracked, the newspapers, stacked, the teaspoon, tarnished, well used. The bills neatly piled, the kitchen, Delft tiled, the face, time worn and bruised. The phone in the h......

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Categories: delft, allegory, family, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Eagle Survives
...In this tumultuous political climate I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete They do not speak to me or my families’ needs Neither do they consider our suffering Day after day immigrants......

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Categories: delft, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Ladybug Muse
...I think my dorm room may have a ladybug infestation. You know why I think this? Because I am usually, when in my dorm room, surrounded by ladybugs. I go to sleep with them. I wake up with them. And a......

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Categories: delft, appreciation, friendship love, how
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Kids From the Village
...Just the town children ne'er feasted a forest of one tree's in a labyrinth of the uninvited stirs like cream in cocoa --rightfully aloof Their eyes steeped in a delft brew brimmed by clamouro......

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Categories: delft, age, children,
Form: Verse
Blue By You
...BLUE BY YOU What’s Blue by me? Butterfly wings, the Blue Moth in flight, stilettos, suede shoes, for dancing at night. Moonbows and rainbows, in the spectrum of blue, the eyes of you......

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Categories: delft, blue, color, fun, humor,
Form: List
Second Conditional
...Grammar Series SECOND CONDITIONAL If I were a gambling man as my sin; (I confess an occasional flutter) Then if I had an acceptable win, I would buy myself some new schmutter * Note: it wo......

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Categories: delft, language,
Form: Rhyme
Uithoorn Straat 45
...Amsterdam vibrant with Bells of red trams and blue bikes Canals sparkling night lights Delft facades rising tall and slim in misty air Energy of never sleeping coffeeshops of laissez-faire life ......

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Categories: delft, travel,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Girl With the Pearl Earring
...That pensive look on her sweet face Just like a child of mine. Her eyes seem to follow you with Dominion that's divine. Northwest light on soft blush hued cheeks Her grey-green eyes lay ba......

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Categories: delft, art, beauty, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Democracy Under Trump
...In this tumultuous political climate I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete They do not speak to me and my families’ needs Neither do these elites know the suffering we go through Day af......

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Categories: delft, integrity, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse

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