Purple Prickly Pear
...Spirits of the woodland deep.
Gather, please, at gate.
Shadow, dark fire, through me seep!
Hummingbirds can hate!
Where the prickly pear was grown?
Deep beneath a lake.
Where the angry god wa...
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Categories:
dessicate, baptism, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Dun Days
...Dun days? Clouds above in greys?
Sapphire? Purple haze?
Deterrence, dessicate, cays.
Buildings on the raze.
World around in twilight.
Months ahead a-grim.
Heart within me, burn with fight!
C...
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Categories:
dessicate, absence,
Form: Rhyme
NATURE’s BLOOM
...Sunlight seeping through my sash windows, so bright,
A silver whisper, anemones in oak’s light.
Piscine fins capture daylight's faint gleam,
Cormorants align, a verdant, vibrant dream.
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Categories:
dessicate, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Harmattan Is Upon You
...Harmattan Is Upon You
When cooler nights delay arousal
from the peace of sleep's blindfold
and the joy of a monthly paycheck
is blurred by the inertia to rise up
The Sun remains robed in a h...
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Categories:
dessicate, christmas, holiday, weather,
Form: Free verse
Activate
...It's easy,
just to contemplate
too much, though
and we may
stagnate;
perhaps we'll even
dessicate
Better,
in my mind to
activate
and motivate,
I say we
dedicate to
create;
the...
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Categories:
dessicate, encouraging, growth, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ezekiel Reborn
...There are hazards there,
to board imagination of another soul,
to probe behind the rocks along the way
and find too much, converting chill into reality—
there is the romance!
There too is desert, th...
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Categories:
dessicate, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Radiant Historia
...Wielder of the Chronicle of White
Traversing time to right the wrongs
A land turns to sand beneath his feet
His friends follow suit
Two kingdoms battle for the grainy plains
One wields numbers, one ...
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Categories:
dessicate, adventure, courage, fantasy, war,
Form: Free verse
Shortening the Distance
...Birth is the beginning of a quest
which is unseen to human eyes,
sadly ending on our unpredictable death,
but not living another day shortens that distance.
Who decides our fate in ways so dr...
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Categories:
dessicate, depression, faith, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain