Categories:
enrobed, imagery, metaphor, moon, mythology,
Form: Haiku
A Cardinal Encounter
...Behind a fence were piles of leaves
The trees had lately shed
And as I passed, my eye picked up
A flash of something red.
I stopped and looked and out it popped,
An unexpected sight –
A card...
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Categories:
enrobed, appreciation, today,
Form: Rhyme
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
...The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
In the sprawling labyrinth of concrete towers and spectral glass,
where skyscrapers, like ancient obelisks, pierce the celestial veil with unyielding ambition,
se...
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Categories:
enrobed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Stains of Imperfection: Flower and Man
...This was not written for or entered in a contest, but I was inspired.
~~~ "We are all petals of imperfection sharing the same sun"
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Categories:
enrobed, flower, introspection, people,
Form: Rhyme
In the cathedral of eternity, where time itself kneels in reverence
...In the cathedral of eternity, where time itself kneels in reverence,
Where stars are candles burning on the divine altar on high,
There Jesus, Savior and Sun-giver, makes His presence felt,
In the...
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Categories:
enrobed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A River Leads
...Spanish Moss hangs over my face
a gentle caress
green filaments brush my hair.
The flat-bottomed boat
glides on a slow current
but it pushes me,
it urges - but to where?
Florida has a lot of...
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Categories:
enrobed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Forbidden Zone
...Honey Locust Trees, perched precariously on
Ledges lost amid ruptured chasms of evil
Ant hills, protruding fistfuls of grapefruit-sized
Giant ants suffering remnants within sight of
Chernobyl, i...
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Categories:
enrobed, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
My Dream Date
...How I weave fancies around my dream date
If time could satisfy some of my whims,
I would, like a sprightly fawn, hop and jump
Jubilant, jocular, joyous, and juvenile!
Between the departin...
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Categories:
enrobed, beautiful, desire, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
A Date With the Nightsky
..." As I sat beneath the nightsky, is all I could see...revel in its entirety,embracing the soft, warm breeze!"
Yet another long, tiring day comes to an end,
And here she comes, once again;
Enro...
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Categories:
enrobed, analogy, appreciation, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Reptilian Anthropocene
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"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lap...
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Categories:
enrobed, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Exhortation To the Night: a Halloween Poem
...Exhortation to the Night
What breaths fill this night?
Exhaled by things that shun the touch of light?
Accept the burden of pressing dark?
Face the Abyss to read its Mark?
Down in the b...
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Categories:
enrobed, dark, horror, night,
Form: Rhyme
Covetousness
...Longing to possess
belongings of fellowman.
Perfidious unseen want
enrobed in sweetness.
Treachery rooted deep down.
Stealing begins in the heart.
One of The Seven Deadly Sins ' Poetry Cont...
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Categories:
enrobed, corruption, desire,
Form: Choka
Two Roses
...On our wedding he gave a crystal rose
Flowering forever, enrobed in glass
Ballerina's grace in delicate pose
Guardianship of tradition, of class
Witness of first years, of paper, cotton
Commit...
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Categories:
enrobed, flower, husband, i love
Form: Sonnet
Eden
...Eden
Early bloom the yellows of spring,
ending the gray of winter’s bane;
entwined vines of columbines cling,
enthralled by silver drops of rain.
Enrobed in colors fresh and green,
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Categories:
enrobed, beauty, garden, nature, paradise,
Form: Verse
Spotted Fawn and I
...Spotted Fawn and I
I whispered quietly to you, just a foot away
"I am not here to harm you, just gathering
wild ramps on this limestone bluff" curled up
next to a beach tree, one eye peaking at...
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Categories:
enrobed, animal,
Form: Free verse
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