When the Bell Will Chime for me
..."Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death ..."
Paul H. Yarbrough
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Categories:
effuse, death, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Poetry contests
...we have been asked to police
contest entries for plagiarism
relying on unproven software
sponsors are expected to comply
to make judging somewhat fair
perhaps we need to introspect
why are c...
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Categories:
effuse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Look Not At Form
...Look not at form but soul within
All that is, is God’s light
Cave of heart’s open, go therein
Feel heightened bliss delight
Know there is no ‘other’
Each soul is our brother
Bless...
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Categories:
effuse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Trust and Betrayal
..." ...betrayal begins with trust."
~ Quote_ Phish
Our trust presupposes expectation,
based on a script, being but delusion,
which is the root cause of our frustration;
bet...
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Categories:
effuse, betrayal, love, trust,
Form: Sonnet
Incongruous
...Drawn into a war that was not our choice,
we’re compelled to play the cards as they fall,
for although we wish all speak in one voice,
if swords need to be drawn as of fate's call,
aligned with r...
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Categories:
effuse, betrayal, war,
Form: Dizain
There's a Pill For That
...Apathy’s paralyzation,
Iridescent indignation,
Steely eyed, grim concentration,
Ebullient, effuse elation,
Scheming klepto pilferation,
And dysphoric ideation
Drugs for every situation
Prescri...
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Categories:
effuse, drug,
Form: Monorhyme
Sprays of Sweet Nothings
...Throughout full room sprays of sweet nothings suffuse
Mellow are memorial moments, mirth as well as my muse
High-floating foams, filled with redolent renaissance
Gently freshen up and fondle my ha...
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Categories:
effuse, allusion, i miss you,
Form: Romanticism
Ode To Ac
...A breeze is nice, but my advice
When temperatures are soaring
Is get inside where you can hide
And cooler air is pouring.
I guarantee that with A/C
Your mood will be improving
And you can do ...
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Categories:
effuse, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Links
...In a box in the closet,
Beneath lots of shoes,
Was a bundle of greeting cards;
All did effuse
With good wishes, congrats
And excitement galore
For the birth of a baby
A short time before.
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Categories:
effuse, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Emerald
...May a month when trees display their many tones and hues
Adorned in their best all new and fresh; trees dressed to impress
Cloaked in many shades of green like emerald, lime or chartreuse
May a...
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Categories:
effuse, appreciation, color, spring, tree,
Form: Triolet
Oh Little Meadow Pipit
...Oh little Meadow Pipit
So sweetly do you sing,
Unbridled joy and happiness
Effuse your warbling.
High above the moor you dance
Rapturous in flight,
Oh little Meadow Pipit
How you so delight...
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Categories:
effuse, bird, nature, song,
Form: Rhyme
Day In the Life of a Late Summer Day
...Sleep.. indigo’s eyes, night loving allies,
Sol’s flare is stars' disguise dawn till dusk’s reprise,
peach awe-inspired skies effuse juice sunrise,
east, grapefruit pink lies - lemon slice rhapsod...
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Categories:
effuse, appreciation, day, imagery, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
Ted Cruz
...All today I had the blues
Because I listened to the news,
Learning Iowans did choose
Not Trump or Rubio, but Cruz.
This candidate does not amuse.
His cockiness just seems to ooze
From all his...
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Categories:
effuse, political,
Form: Monorhyme
Rager
...The contradiction of the rager
So youthfully endowed with unpleasantries
Of a child-man high in cumulus clouds
Stratospheres of anger that rain
Down like spoiled fruit
Falling from the rotten v...
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Categories:
effuse, anger, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Ocultus Destinee
...OCULDESTINATE
The esoteric cabal
A sinister secret
To illuminate or to fall
Effuse the real or the counterfeit
To notice it at all
Illusory uncloaked
UNVEIL
DISSEMBLEVile concealment
Conspir...
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Categories:
effuse, allusion, violence, visionary,
Form: Etheree
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