And Heaven Is Here
...A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness—
Oh, wilderness were paradise enow.
(Omar Khayyam’s (1048-1131 CE) well-known ...
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Categories:
enow, heaven, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Thunder Roars All Around Us
...thunder roars all around us
rain has pillaged the Earth in petrichor
trees bend in the wind
and retrieve their stature
only to succumb to yet another burst
two pluviophile's sitting on the balc...
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Categories:
enow, devotion, i miss you,
Form: Romanticism
Yes, We Survivors Do Live On But How
...ke snow from a weeping sky
And mothers, daughters, many wear black dress
In fertile fields, were farmers once did plow.
Many should die, millions or just enow
Yes, we survivors do live on but how?
Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet
June 22, 1974
Note:
""Enow""
enow. / (?'na?) / adjective, adverb. an archaic word for the word= "enough"...
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Categories:
enow, death, deep, evil, history,
Form: Sonnet
Callisto
...Callisto, the chaste, was Artemis’ ardent acolyte,
Daugher of Lycaon, was most beauteous and fair.
Zeus, besotted, imposed his Divine Right,
In Artemis' guise he seduced Calisto without care.
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Categories:
enow, mythology, sky, star,
Form: Pantoum
Athwart Without Surcease
...Athwart Without Surcease — Edzel
Erelong the sphere was contrived,
intrinsically safe with His arms.
Born— soon derived,
and molded from His heart so warm.
Fain to live,
hight to be a no ma...
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Categories:
enow, age, birth, time, words,
Form: I do not know?
Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive Chimere
...Which paradise is not the elusive chimère?
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did w...
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Categories:
enow, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise,
Form: Free verse
A Little Love Bud of Mine
...A little love-bud of mine
Like a pyre flicker of light
Inflame in my heart so bright,
Trod my heart o' labyrinthine.
Toxicate my heart to love:
Loving in truth, crystal clear;
Eternally I sha...
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Categories:
enow, love
Form: Acrostic
They Won'T Work and You Can'T Fire 'Em
...The rocket scientist looked in dismay as the rocket lay in a smolderin' heap!
'Twas fired t'ward Mars but was not to be - 'twas enow' to make a man weep!
As he skulked back to his office to figger ...
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Categories:
enow, funny,
Form: Couplet
Smile
...Standing-by in the dreamy night,
Going beyond a sleepy state;
Trying, waiting, seeking a reply,
Seeking your smile--and I wait,
Standing by--much like a candle's thread
Whose little fire burneth...
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Categories:
enow, loveme,
Form: Quatrain
Nursing Home Syndrome
...Used upshot ~ no just quiet ring
as Grandma sits upon her swing
content, but how, you want to sing
can quiet rest so willingly!
Her eyes seem set ~ yet seeing more
it must be from some elsewhe...
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Categories:
enow, devotion, family, love, peoplehome,
Form: Monorhyme
Hair
...But burrow not, nor cut in wrath
my flowing curl, life's under math,
to swirl it so, occasion's path
is not enow ~ vanity's craft!
I'll stick my neck out, counteract
some vague delusion other...
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Categories:
enow, faith, inspirational
Form: Monorhyme
Chose
...Distraction is the giant fuse
that takes my thought to other's lose,
to turn the heart to so and so
seems easier, than to rescue soul!
Mind on my ways, my thoughts of prose
are so entwining ~ ...
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Categories:
enow, love
Form: Monorhyme
I Shall Get Back Our Liberty
...Motherland, my native-land,
Thou hast been again reduced to sand;
Once again these men have made you
That Old Woman, my motherland!
I look from here to there about
And my heart crosses this do...
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Categories:
enow, devotion, loss, recovery from...heart,
Form: Quatrain
A Love Letter
...Love is here, then and now;
often hidden, and hard to define.
I have won, and lost, and how
i long again to win your heart for mine.
if i gave up everything i had,
and stand alone in a place f...
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Categories:
enow, lovelife, heart, heart, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
Death's Beckoned Door Well Welcomed.
...Many busied minutes have been spent upon my brow....
As formed of sweat that be hanging on down as if not enow.
A toilment of movement has haunted my graying cloud about my head...
Following oh fo...
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Categories:
enow, angst, death, nature, passion,
Form: I do not know?
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