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Careless Moments

...I should have grinned when morning came
Atop posts of gaping day, with lunatics
Humming dirges of a broken world.

I remained glued to my gloom.
Rising from the pit of hell, I held
Concupiscent...

Categories: filching, introspection, solitude,
Form: Free verse

The Gilded Season

...Summer's green vistas sang a farewell tune
as bare limbs gently swayed in a chill wind.
It swept o'er hills, beneath a harvest moon,
filching leaves; a theft it could not rescind.

Autumn is gil...

Categories: filching, autumn, beautiful, color,
Form: Sonnet

I Feel No Billow

...I FEEL NO BILLOW:

Obvious smile covering enormous of feelings.
Shadows on the wall tells 'bout what could be happening.
Self-isolation mobilised for a painstaking decision.
Children of destitut...

Categories: filching, beautiful, family, trust,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Thief Autism

...The Thief Autism

Thief!
Childhood stolen by cowardly thief ~
Hiding in the shadows – masked face!

Bandit!
Holding hostage gifts and talents ~
Creation’s praise left penniless!

Feckless b...

Categories: filching, anger, angst, hope,
Form: Free verse

Lyric of the Marshland

...Sweet butterscotch dew dimples on the lips of daffodils
In flourishing fields fondled by four leaf clover
Each scant spikelet of small white blooms playfully pleasure
Rejoicing with fragrance with...

Categories: filching, beautiful, bird, butterfly, daffodils,
Form: Verse

Taken

...The flooding face of the sky shed tears,
Regretting the stolen souls with unfilled days.
Dire death deducts peace aside from numbers,
Filching lives, loves and joy from this place.
One has taken ...

Categories: filching, anxiety, birth, care, death,
Form: Free verse

Miss Prudie Plunkett

...Instead of a purse, Miss Prudie Plunkett carried a frumpy sack 
Brazenly swiping, filching, odd & ends and bric-a-brac...
Until one day at the five-and-dime
The store clerks gave her a terrible ti...

Categories: filching, humor, humorous, people, silly,
Form: Limerick

Caught Napping

...CAUGHT NAPPING

Cocky 
bluffing like the covered duck

Tripping
boasting 50 years sojourn ahead of tomorrow 

Stuffing
filching away our future in a "Ghana Must Go"

Sniffing
snuffing lif...

Categories: filching, bird, conflict, crush, pain,
Form: Free verse

Stardust Wink

...In louver, I waited ‘til night confined the sky
Incandescent stardust once made me starry-eyed
That tempestuous evening hid the Milky Way
Nocturnal beetle mimicked pristine light that I prayed

...

Categories: filching, beautiful, dream, light, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Garden Pests

...'Tis another glorious spring and I planted my garden with the expectation,
That I shall reap a bountiful harvest for my table with minimum frustration!

I planted the usual stuff - carrots, radish...

Categories: filching, funny, spring, garden, spring,
Form: Couplet

Evening Panorama

...Evening Panorama


 
When the moon is intransigent to a gloomy cloud
Stars filching to stare the horizon
Sparkling luster luring across the sea
Lunged me to stroll along the seashore

Hear t...

Categories: filching, inspirational, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse