I remember loving you
...
I remember you and the promises
the feel of the embrace of love
the tenderness of feeling whole
I remember loving you
and everything it so entailed
the magic of our togetherness
and the mig...
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Categories:
entailed, appreciation, blessing, grief, growth,
Form: Free verse
The Shepherd's Diadem
...The torment is relieved!
No more the whip and scorn.
Perfection in reprieve
Of agonizing thorns.
No more shall man transgress,
With whip, or fist or thorns.
His head now fitly dressed:
Annou...
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Categories:
entailed, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Home Ec
...Women of a certain age
Remember, when in school,
Boys did woodwork, girls
Home economics, as a rule.
The boys made houses for the birds –
They sanded, sawed and nailed
While girls both cooke...
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Categories:
entailed, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
...Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or sub...
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Categories:
entailed, absence, adventure, analogy, birth,
Form: Free verse
When Wild is the Night
..."Everyone has a story to tell, a lesson to teach and wisdom to share,"
Rachelle Taylor
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Categories:
entailed, appreciation, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Imagism
aim of the game
...we as living light choicelessly chose
to experience limitation
so to this end, we caged Self in form
to vividly feel each sensation
now entering trance entailed a risk
since truth of who we ar...
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Categories:
entailed, life, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Who am I without my mask
...Entailed in a spiritual, chaotic race,
My soul scouts and squirms behind my tranquil veil.
Who am I without my mask? The mirror shows my face
Entailed in a spiritual, chaotic race.
I know I mus...
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Categories:
entailed, spiritual,
Form: Triolet
loving moments
..."loving moments"
always from the start of us
everything entailed love
involving tender touches
one by one safely savored
under lights of sun and moon
as time intensely waltzes thru...
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Categories:
entailed, love, romance,
Form: Light Verse
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
...The Intricate Mysteries of Being
An albatross flying across the Antarctic
A telescope monitoring the intergalactic
A horoscope sharing interplanetary
plastic
Let’s elope while we still think...
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Categories:
entailed, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Creep Alias Harvey Specter
...got what he wanted at my expense.
Said crack fast talking
hacker and scammer
pulled figurative wool over my eyes
going incognito and speaking a clipped
English mien his disguise.
He appeare...
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Categories:
entailed, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Gumption
...The assumption with gumption
is that its meant for
general consumption.
But like a spice
it should be used sparingly,
for that which spurs us on to dare and dream,
It takes chutzpah, bravery an...
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Categories:
entailed, confidence, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Mythical Moon By Day
...As dragonflies squint in the rayless night.
My glimmer of whimsy embraces flight.
Yet faith wanes, and enthusiasm is slight.
As lambency falters—the horizon is bleak.
In a stupendous...
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Categories:
entailed, analogy, appreciation, beauty, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday
during month of May
can be traced back
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mot...
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Categories:
entailed, absence, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
A Bonfire In the Rains
...We met around a bonfire in the rains
Love bloomed and more trysts entailed.
Soon we walked down the aisle
Candid picture of the perfect couple.
Another Monsoon season came
Spotted him across ...
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Categories:
entailed, analogy, betrayal, conflict, destiny,
Form: Ode
Difficult But Doable
...6/5/22
In the distance a faint light
Paying my respects at a gravesite
During the day light
And the late night
Humans always got something to say right?
Endlessly they fight
Me against t...
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Categories:
entailed, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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