NOW
...Now
The landscape stretches
Her range out beyond sight
While notably
Visible along the horizon
to the left and right,
She moves on away
Dancing
Into the traveling dimensions
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Categories:
fleetly, feelings, history, humanity, language,
Form: Free verse
Strange Things Are Happening
...A rustle here,
A rattle there,
A furtive footstep faintly falling on the stair,
And there's nobody rocking in that rocking chair.
Strange things are happening!
An eerie creak,
My knees go wea...
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Categories:
fleetly, halloween,
Form: Light Verse
September
...September rains; springs spout, rivers fleetly flow to sea
New memories commence as old ones laggardly fade away
Septembers, one new daughter born; a father buried.
Remember September Poetry...
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Categories:
fleetly, memory, september,
Form: Sijo
Fields of Sleep
...The winds come to me from the fields of sleep
Where dreams are blown out of the shallow hills
And I, in my solitude, do rejoice
As I take my comfort within their voice
Which visits me as the cool...
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Categories:
fleetly, dream, eve, morning, night,
Form: Rhyme
Dandelion Dreams
...Where dandelions bloom
is where my childhood began
Amongst them I would lie
in fields of velvet green
unfolded like a blanket
upon the humble earth
I’d gaze into a glistening sky
and weave d...
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Categories:
fleetly, beauty, childhood, color, flower,
Form: Free verse
Savoring Solitudes Sweet Sensation
...Savoring solitude’s a sweet sensation
a blissful moment of euphoric, elation
the marvelously meaningful meditation
a sacred savored spiritual vacation
transcending tensions I fly fleetly away
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Categories:
fleetly, peace, poems, poetry, silence,
Form: Alliteration
Pisonia
...Up the splinter tree love lodges in the cold winter
A blizzard charades a feeble allegiance
Remotely an owl’s grasp, peaked a branch
Its fixed eyes study the delicate nest
In the storm, upright w...
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Categories:
fleetly, anxiety, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Counting Time
...A year has months;
A month has weeks.
A week has days
Which brook no tweaks.
The days divide
By hours, neatly;
Hours, minutes.
Then, as fleetly,
Seconds tick
As time flies by.
We cannot...
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Categories:
fleetly, time,
Form: Rhyme
Truth In Self
...I cannot help but recall,
Peers of eminent prestige,
Some passed on forever gone,
Others lost for sake of fear,
Long nights of acoustic bliss,
Beating back the demons in me,
As I repine those...
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Categories:
fleetly, betrayal, death of a
Form: Quatrain
Went Down She Did
...
" Went Down She Did "
Twere that Fantome went down went down so she did
Chosen she that Devil against then so to bid
Her souls naught but bravest... bravest thirty-three
As fury o'that temp...
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Categories:
fleetly, adventure, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Dusk, 'Til Dawning Light : Autoinversion Form
...Once, I loved a lady sweetly,
stole my heart away quite neatly;
dreaming of her every night,
from each dusk, 'til dawning light.
Making love, each eve went fleetly;
when came morn she...
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Categories:
fleetly, romance, me,
Form: Quatrain
Summer Break Complacency
...I’ve been faking
but complacency’s fading latency is blatantly shaking me.
These cold cascading seconds trickle off the clock that faces me.
its hands strangle me, choke me and break me,
while ...
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Categories:
fleetly, introspection, life, teenme, me,
Form: Rhyme