The Needle
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knitting
your life
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and if
you sew
emotion
secret
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Categories:
dle, wisdom,
Form: Shape
Vacancy
...Internally, I am at peace
Making the most of those
Idle moments
Simply siphoning every last
Second of sanity
Yet there is the yearning
Opening t...
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Categories:
dle, missing you,
Form: Acrostic
Sweet 16, Sealed In Wax
...Sweet 16, Sealed in Wax
Nothing compares, can't hold a candle,
To our togetherness in love,
Hand in hand we share our "One-dle",
As a ship in harbor, we nestle in our cove!
Nothing's like sweet...
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Categories:
dle, anniversary, for her, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Summertime-
...Small Ramada vacation time
Unutterable sundowns
Mid-solar dawns early sun rise
Many moderate new moons
Ethereal dawns
Respective solid solstices
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Categories:
dle, analogy, endurance, engagement, summer,
Form: Acrostic
Empty Fields of Plenty
...E ntreating our persuasion
M anifesting that more is always better
P owering the effort to provide
T ables languishing with waste and
Y ears of abuse to abundance
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Categories:
dle, character, conflict, inspiration, irony,
Form: Acrostic
Butterflies
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Butterflies, dappled sky, monarchs'
Wildlife, butterflies' migrating.
Wildflower mea
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Categories:
dle, butterfly, nature,
Form: Rispetto
Don'T Break Your Oath
...J-ust don't break your oath,
U-nder the eyes of heaven;
L-ord God is busy watching,
I-dle days already
E-nd.
N-ever break your vow,
O-n the twenty-second of July;
C-omplete your obedi...
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Categories:
dle, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Spring Is Coming Soon
...Songbirds tell us all good morning and
Plants bloom diverse buds most stunning,
Reminding us newness is coming.
Idle no more, grass grows its carpet -
Nudging b...
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Categories:
dle, beauty, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Gold Spills From the Horizon
...Gold spills from the horizon
O'er the land that is bathed with wonders
O'er the land coated in silvers
Dead be yesterday's regrets! Welcomed be todays's joys!
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Categories:
dle, morning,
Form: Acrostic
Crows
...The Carrion Crow
Crows abound in the
neighborhood and around the
yard. Often in early morning a
great, noisy caw-fest occurs.
A carrion crow
sat on an oak, fol de rid-
dle, lol de ridd...
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Categories:
dle, animal
Form: Haibun
Africa a Modern View Jan 2013 Rhymed Acrostic
...AFRICA --A MODERN VIEW
A zure skies sing lullabies--still tremors built of fear
F renzied red machetes dance in children’s midnight dreams
R...
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Categories:
dle, peace, places, political,
Form: Acrostic
And Frees Your Robot Mind (Little Wisdoms)
...Iambic Heptameter Couplets (fourteen syllables--seven unstressed--seven stressed)
scansion of first line:
a/LIT/tle/TA/ken/IN/the/MID/dle/'TILL/you/HAVE/e/NOUGH
unstressed syllables: a/tle/ken/t...
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Categories:
dle, life, time, life, time,
Form: Couplet
Bye-Bye-Blues
...I feel like a STAR
Like a giant Super-Nova
I believe them-ole-blues
Is fin-al-ly ovaahh!
So let's get up and DANCE
A lee-dle Bossa-Nova
An-if-ya-don-know-how
I'll just have t'SHOW-ya!...
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Categories:
dle, hope
Form: Light Verse