Hitler's Watercolours
...This one’s a castle; that’s a customs-house.
They’re stolid, listless, just a little dull.
The sky supports an arbitrary gull.
The languidness of Liszt, the style of Strauss
are wholly absent. ...
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Categories:
disarmingly, history,
Form: Quatrain
OPEN VERSE NO 21
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TRY FAIL BETTER
doubtless
fragile
in
quiet originality
of
sublimated energy
so redolent
eternal
anguish
elegant
surreal
agonising
challenges
of abstract
concepts
convict...
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Categories:
disarmingly, poetry,
Form: Verse
I am different
...To anyone who is different... Remember the blessing in disguise. You are able to know much through your spiritual sight.
I am different
By Michelle Morris
27/06/2023
I am different
And tha...
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Categories:
disarmingly, angel, inspirational, light, song,
Form: Lyric
Orchid Blooms From My Garden
... On a bright morning I was greeted warm
By a host of flowers of the self same hue
Smiling disarmingly from an orchid wild
With their white petals washed in dew
Amid the vernal green...
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Categories:
disarmingly, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Sudden Storm
...The storm blasted its way across near horizon
Like a fleeting loss of Mother Nature’s temper--
Seething anger, blowing, and drumming ahead
Shouting to the trees “Get out of my way!” an...
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Categories:
disarmingly, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Imagism
If I Were She
...If I were S/He
I would look downstream
for a power so high
this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep
and widely therapeutic
mystical in feeling,
practical in application.
If I were She
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Categories:
disarmingly, health, heart, integrity, military,
Form: Political Verse
Thou Precious and Guiltless Nigerian Blood
...The whips of smoke was thickly spiraled all over my face,
I stood at the shrine, rather the church,
The eerie and somber silence within the cave scourged me,
As the nocturnal owls spoke cabalis...
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Categories:
disarmingly, death, evil, hurt, world,
Form: Free verse
Alliteration Allies
...Dramatically daring disarmingly dapper
So soflty serene so subtly sublime
Enigmaticly entrancing enthusiastically enjoyable
Vividly vibrant vicariously viewing
Caringly caressing charismatically ...
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Categories:
disarmingly, mystery,
Form: Blank verse
. and Then,
...there are times
when my heart
remains silent
when its pulse is
steady and slow
there are times
when i am
right with the world
fitting in like a piece
to an irregular puzzle
there are times...
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Categories:
disarmingly, angst, confusion, depression, life,
Form: Lyric