from the news
...from the news
A tomato met a non-tuber plant
sweet music
a birth to what is known
as potatoes, these days also called fries
Just think if the tomato had not
been so unfaithful trying it o...
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Categories:
extols, addiction, adventure, anti bullying,
Form: ABC
In the playground of imagination
...Hiding inside a box
While my rivers run wild
Gardens dance to my tunes
Songs sung in a voiceless mode
Eyes sparkle with shiny stars
Poems bleed on empty pages
Mundane structures matter not
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Categories:
extols, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations XII
...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch
In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th...
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Categories:
extols, beautiful, beauty, girl, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Inner Beauty
...If one extols the beauty of your face,
Question their gaze—can they see your place?
You are far more than a fleeting glance;
A heart filled with purpose; a spirit’s dance;
Can they truly cherish ...
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Categories:
extols, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Hope and Faith
...Hope and Faith
With my body suffering from acute pains
After a fall on a slippery floor,
With the back hitting against the footsteps
And several ribs fractured at the core
Sleep becomes utterl...
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Categories:
extols, 1st grade, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
A Beauteous Day of Spring
...Greet the sanguine dawn’s mauve sunrise,
A crimson pizzaz blushing opaline skies
Where eagle flies questing higher highs
Thrilling endearing vibes of enamored eyes
In sparrow’s glance, in cardina...
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Categories:
extols, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Ambush
...A brook cascades daintily extant
~ flowing gayly heart’s incited joy
Meandering, nestles on Peace
~ quivering restraints strain ‘n squirm
Breaking-bank, careens downwards
~ extols faith’s grim ...
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Categories:
extols, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
Not All Poets Are Kindred Souls
...Not all poets are kindred souls
That theory is full of holes
For a few, poetry extols
Different goals Different goals
Words guided by what's in our hearts
Wanderlusts or humorous th...
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Categories:
extols, humorous, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Gallery
...in the public square
you are not to be questioned
just admired
for your dark demonstrations
of being
the hanging black spider waves its life at you
perhaps the arachnid lover is demora...
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Categories:
extols, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Incarnations of What Love's Blessed Paradise Extols
...Incarnations Of What Love's Blessed Paradise Extols
Soft and slow each rising tide that your sweetest loving bring
that lush hush and touch setting eager seeking hearts aflame,
those luscious li...
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Categories:
extols, beautiful, destiny, heart, love,
Form: Sonnet
Poverty Trap
...They tell them the reality of yesterday is their tomorrow
Save the cries for different versions of sorrow
The world is hash but there is a God who is omnipotent
The world has abundance if they cho...
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Categories:
extols, africa, patriotic, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Heart Speak
...Tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
The palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
I'm sweeter, still, if dashed upon the shoals
Or bleeding from the hem of day's remains
Tho' I may weep fro...
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Categories:
extols, analogy, appreciation, heart, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Pocahontas
...Liz Warren AKA Pocahontas
Extols med coverage for all of us
No middle-class tax says she
We will have to wait and see
"Methinks she speaks with fork'ed tongu...
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Categories:
extols, political,
Form: Limerick
Memories: Friend and Foe, Collaboration With Lin Lane
...Memories: Friend and Foe,
collaboration with Lin Lane
"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
~ Gilbert Parker ~
Laud precious mem...
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Categories:
extols, appreciation, art, creation, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Memories: Friend and Foe, With Robert Lindley
..."Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
~ Gilbert Parker ~
Laud precious memories when cold nights prevail
Those that fan love's flame...
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Categories:
extols, memory,
Form: Rhyme
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