Deliver Me, Jeannie
...The dirty dishes at the sink
are piled up high, near at the brink.
A reckoning is looming large:
a Staten Island garbage barge of smells, I think.
I’ve carried out the garbage pail;
I’ve twitc...
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Categories:
florette, humor, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Night Roses
...Night roses dipped in purkinje, tendencies of blue
lost inside this dream I urge the winds to carry me
onto the hammocks of the night where antic roses lie,
moonlit soaked and mulched ...
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Categories:
florette, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
The Taste of Bitterness
...He was a bitter aging man
He’d never married
Had lost the love of his life
And never recovered
She had died before his return from war
Her parents’ home still stood there like a castle
He ofte...
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Categories:
florette, betrayal, confusion, death of
Form: Free verse
A Year End Florette
...Another year will end with cheer
one more shall soon arrive, no fear
But how they make such a fine din
as one falls out and t’other in
while I will wince, holding my head and festive beer
Not...
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Categories:
florette, december, future, new year,
Form: Rhyme
The Not So Friendly Mirror
...Form. Florette 2. Wrote for contest but didnt submit. (I chickened out)
Mirrors reveal what you can't hide
The rolls of fat your large backside
The legs once slim now plump and veined
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Categories:
florette, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Glass Imaging
...she flutters amidst heaven’s sky
to wink on boughs, a lullaby---
her glass-like wings adorn a night
imaging love's sway to delight
the fancy of kisses woven by queen firefly
Contes...
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Categories:
florette, beauty, image, insect, ,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror-Florette
...Vulnerability, thy calm.
Mirror! you are my soothing balm.
You soak my umpteen drops of tears,
my craziness, delights and fears.
Like freckled waters, you watch my reflection dream.
Contest:...
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Categories:
florette, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
A Writer's Two-Way Mirror
...A writer’s two-way mirror
Unseen, I watched the live actor.
My eyes followed every gesture.
Speckled realities captured
My senses re-manufactured.
Next time I will remain a mere spectator.
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Categories:
florette, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Mirrors
...Mirrors
Desolate eyes have lost their sheen,
Broken hearts, once his darling queen,
Emotions will clearly reflect,
Why can't the mirrors introspect ?
His passion in her own eyes is true to...
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Categories:
florette, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
The Mirror In the Other Room
...The mirror in the other room
has recently filled me with gloom.
One early morn I looked in it
and got freaked out; I looked like S@%#T!
Light so dim revealed the reflection of my ...
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Categories:
florette, age,
Form: Rhyme
A Plea To My Mirror
...Mirror, mirror on bathroom wall
bring back the face that I recall
when I was young, full of vigor
and was happy with my figure,
before all of me needed a big overhaul.
By: Joyce Johnson
For c...
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Categories:
florette, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Mirrors
...I hold your hands as face to face
We dare to look but not embrace
With mirrored thoughts we come to grips
The eyes make up for silent lips
They are reflecting both our hearts as pulses race
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Categories:
florette, emotions, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Threads
...Across the sky, like arrowheads,
from silhouettes against the red,
the call of wild geese swiftly fades
into the sun. And then sun bades
a sad farewell to one last strand of summer's ...
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Categories:
florette, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Objects In the Mirror - Reflections of a Florette
...like the objects in the mirror
did you only appear nearer
now broken and seven years cursed
i feel foolish my heart coerced
and still nothing about us is any clearer
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Categories:
florette, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror
...Mirror
Beauty that an eye can collect,
Corporeal it will select,
As I sit in front of mirror,
Can never see the mind stirrer,
Fragrance of florets of heart won't ever reflect !
Written ...
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Categories:
florette, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
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