Things I love
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Puppies who rumble playing tough
Kittens who curl in balls of fluff
New born babies ever so small
I love these things, I love them all
Roses that drape over a fence
Pansies so brig...
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Categories:
fluting, animal, bird, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Rhythms of Fate and Sound
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Written: January 08, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Di11y Da11y
1. Newton's Laws of Motion:
Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
4. Quantum Superpo...
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Categories:
fluting, analogy, perspective, science,
Form: Free verse
Yearning for Spring
...Spring is back.
For hark!
The Eastern Bluebirds have returned,
Flying in droves from tree to tree,
Singing to their hearts’ delight.
No wonder they symbolise
The joy and happiness
Of gardens w...
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Categories:
fluting, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Move on over ole Joe
...Move on over ole Joe...
and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.
You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories:
fluting, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Zephyr
...“When I felt lonely and betrayed, God’s words, ‘Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God’ fell into my ears as a soothing zephyr” By Poet
Night fades away...
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Categories:
fluting, appreciation, blessing, journey,
Form: Free verse
Sailing Sheep
...Nothing is better than dining on a fluting restaurant
where you can sip your favorite flute
while waiting for your bowl of favorite fish soap
and plait of your favorite dish,
or you can wonder...
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Categories:
fluting, fun,
Form: Free verse
A Glimmer of Gold
...Sunlight over receding sea, small waves born.
Thawing frozen clouds drenched with rain.
Leaves sparkled where motley was worn.
Breeze through golden twilight again.
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Categories:
fluting, analogy, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Valentines
...On the floating vegetation mat the nest is
Swans are quacking, moving to water sedge
Swamp of charming dawn with the raw ray
The flowers are waking up on the love bay
Rising sun are hugging the...
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Categories:
fluting, valentines day, visionary,
Form: Free verse
One Remains
...One day remains
Before this most peculiar year ebbs into distant memories
Wings are buttered awaiting burnt orange flames
Crisp sticks of celery trimmed to impeccable perfection
Must not...
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Categories:
fluting, age, celebration, family,
Form: Free verse
The High Road
...I remember that day, my friend when you said: I will lead,
I left my leadership as a tree untimely leaves shed;
I was happy indeed, just like holding my father's arm,
What's more happiness than th...
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Categories:
fluting, endurance, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
At the Natchez Trace
...NOTE: The Natchez Trace is the Nashville bar where I met my future wife Beth. We invented a game called "twister pool" which involved billiards, drinking and a fair bit of physical contortion ...
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Categories:
fluting, drink, hope, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Like An Autumn Sun
... I thought I had forgotten
the end of summertime,
I thought I stopped remembering
that last night you were mine.
Moments side by side
before fresh petals dried.
But like an autumn ...
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Categories:
fluting, desire, dream,
Form: Lyric
Brothers
...(for Columbus)
In this season of hornbills and sesame grains,
Your colors become sharper than war cries.
In this season of brow-antler-deers and new rice,
Our colors become bloody and drip like...
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Categories:
fluting, birth, blessing, books, break
Form: I do not know?
Expectations
...Expectations
Triumphant note of a magnolia's pearly white
Wakens the sleeping ground,
Beautiful ballerina
Impressing all around.
Herself the spotlight.
Brave fragile snowdrops light the woods...
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Categories:
fluting, uplifting,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Super Budgie
...Blue bird in a gilded cage:
But not as much as a single whistle from it,
and no piping, not even a proverbial peep,
only deafening silence from behind the bars.
To get the little ...
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Categories:
fluting, art, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
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