The Demure Muse
Quiet inspiration, a flickering flame,
A restraining hand with demure's acclaim.
Whispers of beauty, softly spoken with a sigh,
Belies the insight within that lifts the eye.
A demure muse, content to hide,
Modestly nurturing the wellspring inside.
No grand applause, no spotlight to glare,
Has the simply joy of creation to share.
In unpretentious grace, the muse remains,
Engaged in a demure and
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Categories:
demure, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
delicate demure dainty dandelion
Delicate demure dainty dandelion
Showing out in subtle ways
Perfection in symmetry
Beautiful against the verdant grasses
I revere you, dandelion.
You will always be a flower to me.
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Categories:
demure, flower,
Form: Free verse
she was demure dainty and kind
Charlie recognized grandma's neighbor Teresa the instant she looked up.
He had not seen her for ten years, but he remembered her kindnesses.
When grandma passed he felt too miserable to play with her kittens.
Teresa took it upon herself to look after the tiny beasts.
She also talked her parents into letting her take them home.
Which alleviated a
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Categories:
demure, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
April - Breezy and Demure -
April – breezy and demure –
Make yourself at home.
I’ve kept some tea warm –
So glad you're here.
I heard that you'd visit;
The birds announced your arrival
By chirp and warble –
I’d been waiting for it.
I saw wildflowers in full flush
Arrive just ahead of you.
The bees buzz as if to say “hello”
And throng around the brittlebush.
Company is such
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Categories:
demure, april, bird, flower,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Demure Once
I was sedate once, dainty, delicate, demure, girly and feminine.
No you weren’t.
Sure, remember that day I wore the pink flowered dress?
And rolled in the mud with it? Yes, before I rolled in the mud.
I tried my fabrication on six more people.
They all knew me better. They clutched their sides and guffawed.
Some rolled on the floor
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Categories:
demure, me,
Form: Light Verse
Delicate Demure Bleeding Heart
bleeding heart flower
dainty, demure, delicate
heart-shaped, my grandson points out.
he is the artistic child
she graces us with beauty during a short life span
leave her in the ground I tell everyone
like you would leave a heart in a chest.
uprooted, she will not thrive or survive.
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Categories:
demure, flower,
Form: Free verse
Towards the Dark Side
They say this shall pass too,
But here I am standing in the never-ending queue,
On a road reflecting an infinite path in my rearview.
Slowly and slowly, it induces a demure attitude
Giving up on your jolly side along with it too.
Nothing is permanent under this changing blue
Except the blurry future
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Categories:
demure, anxiety, blessing, career, dark,
Form: Rhyme
See Her See Me In Artistry
See her See me in Artistry
A portrait reveals one’s secrets age-old
Eyes tell a story without being told.Quote - poets own.
I look into her eyes and find myself
Feel all the hurts that I have ever felt
A grown woman and beauteous she is
Her refinement captured by the artist.
A little wry smile, a glint in her eyes
What observer
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Categories:
demure, art, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis
Dawn Demure
Dawn Demure
Dawn December day.
Machine peacefully sleeps.
Slumber banished.
RAF pilot.
Spitfire!
Kept warm, mission time, Norway bound.
Snow, fjords, mountains.
Cockpit, aboard, checks,
rise, feathery clouds.
Recon.
Fine machine, woman.
Precision engine.
Exquisite cameras, spy on Nazi’s Christmas.
Thousand mile trip, freedom.
Gentle hearts, honest loving men.
Tirpitz photos, Whitehall desks.
Experts, delicately place,
five ton Tallboy bombs.
Lancaster love.
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Categories:
demure, art, flying, military, sky,
Form: Free verse
Endure Demure To Find Cure
Endure Demure To Find Cure
Understand they did have much demure,
That would always allow them to endure;
Temptation fought,
And answer sought;
We must find womeone who has a cure.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
demure, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
demure, innocence, silence, simple, woman,
Form: Senryu
Wild Pirate Woman Being Demure
I'm sitting like a fat gray cat in the sun,
watching my forest gently dance,
The wind is barely breezing,
The bird songs are the only sounds
I hear except for the running water
of my fountain and my wheezing.
I have cut my newest homemade pirate
shirt a bit too low. Yes you can see my navel if
you
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Categories:
demure, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
How Tenuous, How Softly Demure,
How tenuous, how softly demure,
Sounds this interlude, which I trying to catch!
Like bereft of a sigh, non formidable sketch
It is soaring around, immutably pure.
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Categories:
demure, music,
Form: Quatrain
Demure
Je mourrais pour embrasser tes lèvres
demure propriety awaiting
mists uncover morning crest
arched along crimson tides
glances reflectively linger
last chances filling coffers
only pearls dare still sing
gentle waves wash
upward turns to heaven
Je veux embrasser vos lèvres
scorch your name
upon my naked soul
find me in fluid drips
of your attention
simply holding_
holding on
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Categories:
demure, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Ain'T You Demure
Ain't You Demure....Challenge
She rode in on a buckskin mare,
Tied up at Cote D'Zur
She sat down by a young cowboy -
He said "Ain't you demure."
She said,"My husband says 'lissome'-
And I prefer that tone."
He said," You're prob'ly cenosure,
But now you're all alone."
"I know you're tryin' for glamour -
You was an ingenue -
But there ain't no panacea
Just say
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Categories:
demure, girl,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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