Feature, Flame
...Flame-featured twilight, illuminate fast!
Young are the dreams of humanity vast!
Age is a mystery museums kept.
Poets and prophets in agony wept...
Core of the harpsichord, pyramid-shaped.
Moorl...
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Categories:
fan out, beautiful, creation, culture, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Stability Serene
...Guns, erupt in city street?
Shake the ground we love?
Poison, corrupt what is sweet?
Hear us, God above...
Fan out, troops; if we hold back;
Soon our fabled state;
Will of course soon fade to...
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Categories:
fan out, endurance, friendship, history, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Milk of Roses
...
“Milk of Roses”
Milk of Roses
was her scent
and great bouquets
of baby's breath
moving messages
that blew across hearts
underneath the bones and skin of breast
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Categories:
fan out, muse,
Form: Narrative
Sands of Solitude
...Silent streams swirl silver shadows deep
Where sorrow's sediment settles, secrets keep
Forgotten fragments of a fractured past
Echoes of emotions that will forever last
Fleeting fingers of fate...
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Categories:
fan out, death of a friend,
Form: Alliteration
I am Fireworks
...They shoot me up into the sky
I hear the crowd
The young one’s voices screaming with delight
uncomfortable laughter of the old ones
They know how dangerous I am
Not yet! I tell myself. Hold on. ...
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Categories:
fan out, fantasy,
Form: Personification
Happy Turkey Day
...Mister Tom Turkey says gobble gobble
Mrs. Tom Turkey’s head goes wobble wobble
Zig-zaging through yards of grass they meet
Hen teaching her younglings 'bout how to eat
Tom gathers, his tuft ...
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Categories:
fan out, thanksgiving day, together,
Form: Rhyme
Sunflower
...Your warm yellow radiant rays fan out
Following the wedded sun touching smile.
Through the dense tangle of vines and leaves sprout.
Your warm yellow radiant rays fan out
And...
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Categories:
fan out, flower,
Form: Triolet
Ode To Deborah
...Her hair would fan out in the wind
She would laugh, running her fingers through it
Her eyes would sparkle seeing a friend
With all my buddies, she was a big hit.
But it was her hear...
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Categories:
fan out, love, marriage, soulmate,
Form: Quatrain
Mantra: I Will Create As I Speak
...Seventh,
In the taxi,
The driver's arms fan out
like a praying mantis, ready
for the kill. Old thin arms.
In the backseat:
the prey.
Seventh,
Today is mist.
Dark blue buildings grow high.
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Categories:
fan out, absence, america, leaving, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Laughers
...from a rice paper lily, she recites favorite poems
while pumpkinseed fan out nests in the shallows
a jay on a birch branch teases the tabby
who twitches his tail amidst velvety reeds
on the s...
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Categories:
fan out, nature,
Form: Couplet
Scarecrow
...‘so glad ya made it out alright,’ she says.
‘i’m feelin’ a whole lot better knowin’ that the crops’re bein’ taken care-uh.”
you nod, smile politely
and step out of your car straight into drying mu...
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Categories:
fan out, autumn, horror, imagery, sun,
Form: Free verse
Silent Texting
...Faxing the texting words
Is now a fan out of sight
Not touching a hand
Creation of disappearance
Not sight or sound
Of human kind
Only touching the mind
Leaving the body untouched
Unable ...
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Categories:
fan out, games,
Form: Free verse
Icarus
...Go
Son
Take flight
Icarus~
Be daring be brave
But most of all be vigilant
Unfurl your wings fan out and soar to independence
Navigate your odyssey with perseverance~ go forth and don't look ba...
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Categories:
fan out, confidence, flying, freedom, growing
Form: Fibonacci
Roosters Shout
...A fine damp gauze drapes across trees
As white dread locks fan out
Upon a pale blue morning sky
White doves coo, roosters shout
Come up orange sun, shine through shadows
Silhouette trees, ...
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Categories:
fan out, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Marxism For Dummies 10
...There’s nothing lacking in the thing itself.
In some ways, it’s the very best of us.
It’s not like Marx was some egregious elf,
or Rosa Luxemburg some succubus.
The deal is, if you subjugate th...
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Categories:
fan out, satire,
Form: Sonnet
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