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...I already understand that children
grow inside two blinks,
as quickly as the novel Mayfly
comes to the surface to die.
I'm pining for those first days again,
of edentate smiles, milestones...
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Categories:
finespun, absence, children, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Lost
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Love may be lost in the process of age
and hidden in the miserly sunset
of life, draining like a father's cold sweat.
Oh, that you could absorb my red-hot rage
and exist in a long moment wit...
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Categories:
finespun, life, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
In the Cycle Of Existence
...On reflection, a shining mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flo...
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Categories:
finespun, birth, celebration, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Ode to the Three-Minute Poem Plop
...In the study, bright and sunny,
I thought I'd try something funny.
Three minutes, that's all I need I cried,
As I set my timer, pen and paper aside.
I brewed my thoughts, to nice and hot,
Clic...
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Categories:
finespun, food, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ethereal
...ETHEREAL
‘Ethereal’ must have been invented
To describe my lady’s beauty
Hair, finespun with hint of curl;
Eyes, deepest hazel, smouldering.
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Categories:
finespun, beauty,
Form: Acrostic
Shadows
...Shadows
rain shadows flow like silk scarves across the tapestry of silver dawn
rain shadows on leaves
thin silhouette signatures ~
day takes a shower
Grey shadows cloud the daybreak sky...
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Categories:
finespun, day, rain,
Form: Other
To a Sunflower
...I wonder how so beautiful a flow'r
Is not endowed with much more power
As the rose that turns a look so dour
To something sweet, to smile and not glower.
Your pretty face turned constant at th...
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Categories:
finespun, beauty, flower, green, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Vampire Sonnets Xxiv Unsatisfied
...Carefully watching every word I said;
For the moment I did not want to tread
any longer on this sharp vampire’s toes;
Something new I was going to compose;
‘Fable’ I asked ‘when are we to beg...
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Categories:
finespun, dark, emotions, feelings, gothic,
Form: Sonnet
A Lifetime of Joy
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When you and I were one,
A lifetime of joy cached,
Us dancing neath the sun
With passion unabashed,
Fond filaments finespun,
Golden memories stashed.
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Categories:
finespun, memory, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Ho Ho Ho Nursery Rhyme
...Ho! Ho! Ho!
Santa and his helper elves stacked the sleigh
With presents for children on Christmas Day
Soon off they would ride
Through wintery skies
Jingling b...
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Categories:
finespun, childhood, christmas,
Form: Limerick
She Danced With the Moon
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She danced with the moon
For the stars in the sky,
Then into my heart;
I’ll never know why.
Her laughter, contagious;
Enchanting her looks.
Lept right of the pages
From storied old...
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Categories:
finespun, muse,
Form: Light Verse
Lighter Than a Cloud
...Would not my eyes express delight
to see the flash upon the water bright
As porpoise play on mornings dawning day
I follow them and dance along the way
Could not my heart be lighter then a clou...
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Categories:
finespun, emotions, feelings, joy,
Form: Rhyme
With a Flourish of Whimsy
...A thousand simple things will make me smile...
The sleeping form of a precious newborn,
A child's drawing in his artistic style,
Pastel shades of the sky at early morn,
Fairytales of a magic unic...
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Categories:
finespun, simile,
Form: Dizain
Beneath a Wolf Moon's Glows
...Music drifts through the shadows of the night
As lovers dance under a Wolf Moon's glows
Wrapped in glorious glimmers of starlight
Where hands gently merge as unseen time slows
They caress the hea...
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Categories:
finespun, love, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Dreamy Mood of a Muse
...Dress my dreams agleam your soft sterling tiffany
on chiffon cream moonbeams fly your mused rapture.
In glimmers so shimmers swooned stream’s epiphany
of silky words cashmere.. dre...
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Categories:
finespun, dream, imagery, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme
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