Rue Saint-Honore
...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g...
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Categories:
ecru, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Trompe L'oiel
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Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed
I taught you
the primary colors, RED, YELLOW, and BL...
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Categories:
ecru, analogy, anger, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Riddles
...Riddles
Riddle me this Batman:
what is the middle of a fat man?
Is there anything clean
about a garbage can?
If two can dance
can Toucan Sam?
Is beige the same as ecru or tan?
Why
-does it c...
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Categories:
ecru, 10th grade, deep, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unassailable Purity
...Music and romance are camarilla comrades,
just like poems are my shield and arrows.
But not all lullabies of lovers,
harmonise like a street choir of angels.
If love resembles the weather,
then ...
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Categories:
ecru, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
...Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly li...
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Categories:
ecru, angel, december, dream, good
Form: Rhyme
Wimbledon Whites
...At Wimbledon, you must wear white
To play upon the courts
And that includes your sneakers, visors,
T-shirts, socks and shorts.
The colour police do not allow
Off-white, ecru or cream
And snea...
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Categories:
ecru, clothes, color, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
...Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
(joining "Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
at figurative drop of hat
even if yours truly immediately
woke from his slumbers).
When zapped of...
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Categories:
ecru, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Ekphrasis On Isles of Shoals
...silent sea from afar
glazed in admiral and arctic blue
softly shifting to pointilism
as it rushes to the rocky shore
whilst sky in faded ivory and teal
spells prelude to April rain
rugged roc...
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Categories:
ecru, appreciation, art, nature, sea,
Form: Ekphrasis
Ebullition Tgif
...Eased onto an exsiccated embankment
Enchanted by the empyreal expanse
Exhausted from day's endued earning
Yet elated at the endowment of esprit
Enjoying earth's earnest, emoting eye of
Emerald e...
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Categories:
ecru, art, beauty, cool, earth,
Form: ABC
White
...WHITE
Thumbs up for the whiteness of white, pure,
natural or gently recreated on a dentist’s chair.
How beautiful it manifests itself in smiling!
Would I wish otherwise for me but to
displ...
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Categories:
ecru, clothes, color, culture,
Form: Free verse
Summer Has Begun: Concert In Yellow
...The distant brass haystacks tune on shorn ground.
Vanilla fence posts chime in saffron sun.
Adjacent jonquils trumpet lemon sound
as amber goldenrod and china mums
in stil de grain complete a tr...
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Categories:
ecru, farm, garden, summer,
Form: Quatorzain
My Viking Funeral
...Viking Funeral
When that day comes that I will die
Dress me in the finest clothes
Patterned from ecru silken threads
In contrast with my hazel eyes
As the sun sets west and reflects
upon ...
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Categories:
ecru, desire,
Form: Quatrain
Beauty In Uncertainty
...the murky depths of the night drifts off the lone fisherman
to the tamarind yellow river shaded with ecru of ambiguity;
wind whispers wrapped in sweet somberness and shivery softness;
yon...
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Categories:
ecru, fishing, hope, inspirational, journey,
Form: Free verse
Yellow Memories - United Colours Yellow
...Saffron yellow sunset reflecting yellow gold
Amber yellow mindset in an ecru boat of old
Banana yellow memories of fields of jonquil flowers
Crayola yellow dreams in mango yellow hours
by Dan...
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Categories:
ecru, color, memory,
Form: Rhyme
My Old Bosses Funeral
...MY OLD BOSSES FUNERAL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Went to the funeral of my old boss
After several speakers I was at a loss
Who was this person they were eulogizing
Kind words and praise was so su...
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Categories:
ecru, eulogy, funeral, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
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