Old-Fashioned Parloring
...Old-fashioned parloring. Dreaming
of friendship with tea and cakes.
Feathered fascinators, blooming hats,
all dressed like a bountiful bouquet.
Chatterbox of lovely talk, liveliness
in eyes ...
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Categories:
fascinators, imagery,
Form: Free verse
No Beating the Clock
...I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.
I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes,...
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Categories:
fascinators, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
Tearbowl-Eyes
...dashed to pieces
on day of celebration.
shards of antiques
dishandled, cracked
and abused. pieces
of mother-daughter bond.
I can’t cry; tearbowl-eyes.
always collecting myself.
mom would sa...
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Categories:
fascinators, angst,
Form: Free verse
A Souper Friend
...I crawl into a cave called myself.
It’s dry and dusty, cobwebbed.
So afraid to be, alone in the dark,
“Who am I,” is my cry.
Then Trixie’s best friend comes along,*
like a cowgirl set out on a...
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Categories:
fascinators, friend,
Form: Free verse
The Polar Ice Cap
...What If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’
- this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The
sweet smoke of his sugarloaf effigy black as night,
surrounded by a material red tri...
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Categories:
fascinators, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Princesses
...Once upon a time…
Waking up at four, the princesses dress, then adorn their crowns with fascinators. Princess Marie of Dutchess County courts her majesty,
with a lovely rose steep...
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Categories:
fascinators, mother daughter, wedding,
Form: Haibun
Royal Storybook Wedding
...The prince and princess met and fell in love,
A beautiful extravagant wedding guested.
She wore an exquisite gown of lace,
He wore a handsome uniform.
They were married in a cathedral,
With ...
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Categories:
fascinators, beautiful, england, god,
Form: Free verse
The Epsom Derby
...Men dressed in top hats and tails
Ladies in designer dresses and fascinators,
Bookmakers standing by the rails
Taking bets singles or accumulators,
Epsom downs, Derby day classic
The best of t...
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Categories:
fascinators, fashion, horse,
Form: Rhyme