I Gave Her a Dandelion
...A cool damp spring day
Jonquils shivered
Dandelions danced dizzily
Swaying slowly in a chill wind
Sensually strutting their stuff
Unashamedly celebrating their weedness
Bowing to the jeering cr...
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Categories:
dizzily, beauty, character, love,
Form: Free verse
Tarn
...A mountain tarn,
a deep-water eye,
high and blackly gleaming.
A scramble down slippery scree
to look within,
then a tingling apprehension
of being too close
to an unbalanced footing,
one th...
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Categories:
dizzily, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dune Perdue
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Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
Gnaws at sand buried tree toes gnarled, spit polished
Hourglass chamber sug...
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Categories:
dizzily, animal, beach, bird, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
The Descent
...Drowsy vertigo thoughts losing their substance
in the spirals of deafening maelstrom black waters,
my letters—my ruins—my Sodom
becoming the cries that
never reach bottom—
—never ...
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Categories:
dizzily, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Tsk Tsk, Task Nearly Thwarted
...Mary Lou Sims was young and enterprising, like stars routing dark;
Or mauve dawn on the verge of discovery, awaiting time's remarks.
Mary Lou's best friend was Cora Mann, ever since sweet...
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Categories:
dizzily, dream, fantasy, friend, lost,
Form: Couplet
Jazz
...Drummers are no paradigm you know
Sometimes changing 4 to 2 time
like poet's words, whether free or
rhyme, can make writing a crafty
crime --
drummer's beats
dancer's feets (poet license)...
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Categories:
dizzily, betrayal, celebration, love, music,
Form: Free verse
To which image should we cling?
...Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight
Or with more of horrible and awful
That even to name is...
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Categories:
dizzily, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Winter Bird
...I was a valued, vaunted veterinarian, maintaining health for animals I loved,
As a rainbow sparkled rich colors, from the moment peach sunshine shoved.
I was dedicated to such adorable pa...
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Categories:
dizzily, bird, fantasy, friend, home,
Form: Couplet
Imposter Syndrome
...We see ourselves unimpeded initially
Some are stricken with a view artificially
We are told by others very specifically
There is a ceiling so proceed timidly
We try in vain with no supp...
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Categories:
dizzily, psychological,
Form: Monorhyme
Stressors
...*last winter break*
I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic bag over my hea...
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Categories:
dizzily, brother, christmas, dream, growing
Form: Free verse
Swallowed
...Stones,
Mortar, and brick
Nowhere to turn without feeling sick, stoned
To my stomach
A bottomless pit
Unheard, smothered by a thousand succinct voices' verbose drone
Speaking as the...
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Categories:
dizzily, anxiety, deep, metaphor, simile,
Form: Free verse
Lazy Day
...No machines waiting for me,
Everything is as clean as can be.
For the time being I am sitting happily,
Inhaling indica until I sway dizzily.
Nobody waiting for me,
Everyone already as happy as...
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Categories:
dizzily, addiction, crazy, drug, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
The Light
...the road was morning
fast we stop in the void
interval between beaches
the sun rising from the waves
was twenty years in us
and an endless bottle of champagne
she talked nonsense it was the ...
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Categories:
dizzily, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse
Text Minus X
...Anxiously anticipating annual activity
Blissfully bound by bravado
Consuming cold contagious concoction
Dizzily developed devilish desire
Eagerly expecting ego's enlightenment
Feverish...
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Categories:
dizzily, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Clouds
...autumn's champagne light
dizzily dreamy mauve clouds
geese heading warm south
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Categories:
dizzily, autumn, bird,
Form: Haiku
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