THE KING JAMES VERSION
...MY BIBLE ON MY NIGHT STAND WHERE I PUT BAPTISM CARDS PHOTOS PRAYERS FLOWERS FROM FUNERALS OF LOVED ONES AND THE RECIEPT BOOKS OF MY WEDDING RINGS MY ENGAGEMENT RING FEBRUARY 14 2016 FINALLY MY HUSBAN...
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Categories:
floridian, allah,
Form: Naat
I Was Homeless Christmas 2003!
...It was cold and freezing in the city of Denver.
A day in my life I will always remember.
The sound of sirens wailing all around.
The police had gathered near a body on the ground.
A man with ...
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Categories:
floridian, 11th grade, blessing, depression,
Form: Rhyme
A River Leads
...Spanish Moss hangs over my face
a gentle caress
green filaments brush my hair.
The flat-bottomed boat
glides on a slow current
but it pushes me,
it urges - but to where?
Florida has a lot of...
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Categories:
floridian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Little Things
...We never know in this life what in the next moment fate will bring…I suppose that’s why we spend so much time relishing in all the little things.
Like spending a day with our children…their childr...
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Categories:
floridian, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
Time Is In Charge Here
...I float along on top of the balmy, warm, Floridian saltwater
Enjoying the sun, expecting the best of the day
time creeps up slowly, turns my mood
My feelings are not as grand now
I hide inside...
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Categories:
floridian, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Art Is All Around Us
...Yesterday I wrote poem how about how when the ocean waves meet the land they leave little drawings in their wake…little artworks in the sand.
Marilyn, and old friend from my Ohio high school days ...
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Categories:
floridian, art, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A B C D E F G Etcetera
...Awful avocados always
Breathe bitter blue breaths
Craving cardinal’s Christmas carols
Ditching deliberate dungarees during
Elusive extraterrestrial escapades.
Forsaking fitful Floridian flamingo...
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Categories:
floridian, words,
Form: Abecedarian
Florida Rain Part 1
...Florida Rain Part 1
Robby is sitting in my room on a chair one early evening reminiscing about her thirteen years in Florida. “In Florida, we don’t ring bells, we knock. But there’s a limit to how...
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Categories:
floridian, age, courage, environment, humorous,
Form: Narrative
When Words Fail
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February fourteenth shock,
headline news, no valentine.
Fourteen students stilled, shot without regard
for who they were or who they might become,
in complete shock, their families and...
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Categories:
floridian, anti bullying, teacher, violence,
Form: Blank verse
Finally Free But Still Wishing
...the next time i write
it will be across somewhere in your heart
where i can easily caress the chocolate
covered memory of you
i have been oceanhopping
on the poor man's trip that i
have alw...
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Categories:
floridian, desire, dream, meaningful, memory,
Form: Free verse
Irma
...hurricane irma
huff and puff, blow your house down
mean beatitude
on a southern latitude
Floridian voodoo doll...
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Categories:
floridian, natural disasters, september, storm,
Form: Tanka
Silverhead Castle
...Swells of nitrous climbing walls, cirrus pennants slowly flag..
Cerise in the lining, richly glowing halls are leading
Onto stairs with eternally deep & steep stooping falls
magenta hued cotton su...
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Categories:
floridian, creation,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
floridian, animal, hyperbole,
Form: Senryu
The Not So Original Monoku Challenge
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The not so original Monoku challenge.
Floridian wings parade-elegant flaps for Hicks along tranquil coastline
P.S-Brown Gray Pelican is an elegant bird with oversized bi...
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Categories:
floridian, bird, environment, happiness, imagination,
Form: Monoku
An Introduction: An Introduction
...Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that stamp,
Or tramp, or whatever other denomination one mi...
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Categories:
floridian, humorous,
Form: Free verse
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