angry conifer
...Angry Conifers
Trees in the avenue
have a weird sense
of humor
Long roots cracking up
finely laid cobble stone
pavement
Slightly bent easterly
give pain in the lower
trunk
The younger tr...
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Categories:
easterly, absence, age, art,
Form: ABC
after rain
...After Rain
The audacious sun finally showed up, and green was
the winter landscape, I also saw the sun set just behind
the carob tree, where the almond tree first blossom,
asleep under a carpet o...
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Categories:
easterly, 8th grade, art, beach,
Form: ABC
Moon
...Moon, why do you taunt me?
Your haunting glow consumes all I am.
I howl at your feet as you hang majestic
from a diamante sky
I am breathless, shackled to the earth as I gaze at your beauty, your...
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Categories:
easterly, moon,
Form: Free verse
Fantastic Sky
...Gray rippled clouds create a tenebrous day
A gentle easterly breeze cools it down
But that sun, glorious sun
Creates a red rose crown
There is a chill upon the air
A dampness mak...
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Categories:
easterly, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Down Where
....
Down where wild violets dance
To easterly breezes
And purple Irises erect, stiff, and chilled
See
The dog walker shiver
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Categories:
easterly, age, pets,
Form: Free verse
Narrow Margin
...Placed Second in:
This or That, Vol. 23 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Narrow Margin
On the twelfth day and twelfth month of the y...
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Categories:
easterly, feelings, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Halfway to Heaven
...We're halfway between the Earth and the Moon
Riding the sky in a hot air balloon
All through the day and well into the night
Me and my gal on a romantic flight
Floating aloft on an Easterly bre...
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Categories:
easterly, flying,
Form: Rhyme
The Roots
...
Written: November 11, 2023
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Zeal, which requires forbearance as its root,
Akin to a home built upon sleek clay
Yet, as brave ...
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Categories:
easterly, analogy, appreciation, devotion, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
Autumnal
...autumnal leaves trapped
hang, twirl in easterly breeze.....
sticky spider web ...
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Categories:
easterly, autumn, nature,
Form: Haiku
5th Avenue Sunrise
...jampacked city streets
that jangled and banged
in the raucous jarring day
shifted
from business to boogaloo
squeezing into moonlight
party lights
gin and lime-kissed
gimlet sequined dress
st...
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Categories:
easterly, city, culture, day, new
Form: Free verse
Lulling Symphonies of My Land
...Guarded by towering hills on the East
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell
That lulls the restless waves to sleep,
There is a land, my l...
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Categories:
easterly, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse
Crescent Moonbeams
...Crescent moonbeams easterly
Red sun against blue, rises.
Hope today comes leisurely!
Today showers are prizes.
Rain helps beans to develop.
Whip-poor-will's song supreme
Humidity...
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Categories:
easterly, nature, night,
Form: Other
Springtime In Salem
...Flying on an easterly wind
Over Atlantic waters, ever thinned
A village comes back into view
Eerily draped in a season anew
Hanging now with purple wisteria
Not accusations, not hysteria,
I...
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Categories:
easterly, america, history, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Wind
...The Wind
Within the air there is a gentle breeze that kisses your cheek
Slightly turning your head to feel this wondrous mystique
Gusts gently move all flora and fauna in a mystical dance
As ...
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Categories:
easterly, dark, wind,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Easterly Winds
...easterly winds blow
soldiers of faith sing and grow
stalwarts of Thy flow...
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Categories:
easterly, faith, family, people, world,
Form: Haiku
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