Emollient
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Pushing the envelope outside the box
if only here to accentuate
the many ways in which
emu may emulate
by delivering nutrients' benefits
and what's more
help repair with anti-aging hy...
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Categories:
emollient, bird, fun, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Our effervescence
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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Love, Lubricant Of The Soul, Emollient Of The Heart
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Love is the lubricant of the soul and the emollient of the heart, both
Unguent and viscous, it glides like butter in the summer heat
Banish it from your life and sudde...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy,
Form: Acrostic
My eternal lubricant
...My soul had long been troubled...
by hatred,
dejectIon
and contempt.
They were the poisons
that flowed red in my veins,
burning like wildfire from my head to my toes,
as if this world were ...
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Categories:
emollient, appreciation, cute love, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Man Alive-Deep Purple
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Written: February 25, 2024
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A sun sets in the west; oh, boy, he has gone to rest,
Mama grips her breast in an apocalyptic pain que...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, song,
Form: Rhyme
Lagniappe Of Expression
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Evocative lines bring tears to the eyes.
Plethora of metaphors makes men think.
Emollient words soothe someone in his cries.
Furtive reading lets not mind quit and blink.
As the brain broods ...
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Categories:
emollient, confidence, happiness, poems,
Form: Ottava rima
Soul Mover Coming Down for Love
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Written: January 25, 2024
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Amidst this idiocy of guess and hear,
a dulcet note I caught is quite clear.
An epiphany is set to oc...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tea Time
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Written: January 16, 2024
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Strength of herbs oozes vivacity and harmony
Chamomile elixir elevates mood,
Innermost wassail drea...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, drink,
Form: Free verse
The Colorful Dance
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Written: December 1st, 2023
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Colors waltz in a rainbow kaleidoscope
cynosure of sun sparks steel drum teams
Emerald elms embr...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, color, dance,
Form: Verse
The Twilight Elixir
...Written: October 23, 2023,
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A staunch surrender in a twilight embrace.
My mind is a hammock, swaying in the space.
Dictat...
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Categories:
emollient, appreciation, beauty, night,
Form: Rhyme
Beatitude
...Written: October 22, 2023 For Dilly Dally Tritina Contest
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Blooms swell akin to cynosure elixir
Emollient radiance scatteri...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, beauty, wisdom,
Form: Tritina
Elixir of Silence
...Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, appreciation, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Dangerous Dalliance
...Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
“However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to...
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Categories:
emollient, analogy, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Gaze
...Ballads and candles of lyrical light
in stemmed yearning
breezes of ethereal pearl
shimmering translucence
in a velvety damask
A celestial serenade ~
glittering gold, a halo ...
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Categories:
emollient, appreciation, sky,
Form: Free verse
Secret Love
...Towards love we will go to where it is soft
to touch the perch on which he lays his heart
perhaps I'll meet him in the Holy loft
up on that place where lovers never part
Beside his soul I'll ...
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Categories:
emollient, appreciation, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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