Flower Beds
...I'm a fruit of the tree of life
with knowledge of
the unknown
What I'm known to leave floats
above trees with grown broken
branches
I've grown to see that not
all soil is fertile as many
se...
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Categories:
foiling, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Au Contraire
...Mary was ten and she adored flowers, and she had three pretty sisters;
But, she never could make a garden grow; like stars, losing jade glitter.
Sisters Sarah, Martha and Alice spoiled Ma...
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Categories:
foiling, beauty, color, garden, love,
Form: Couplet
Hotaru's Heartbeat
...Fluttering fireflies
Above the creek baited sly
Hoodwinked in high skies
Genji's ruthless ruse
Foiling Hotaru's scheme
In summer rains' reprise
Pattering musical notes
On screen to wilful...
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Categories:
foiling, first love, literature, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
The All Earth 24 7 Buffet
...The All Earth 24/7 Buffet
David J Walker
And on the 8th day
God said
LET’S EAT
And eat we did
Chomping and whirling
and chasing
and spitting
and hitting
and ...
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Categories:
foiling, easter,
Form: Free verse
This Day of Autumn Shivered
...This day of Autumn shivered
And then did sneeze.
A thousand gold-leafed foiling
Of birch, beech spilt.
Soon, and colder, will it be
Known for its wheeze.
What from off each bough, dance-froze...
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Categories:
foiling, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Love That Is Blind
...They say in his old age, Isaac was blind
yet like his father Abraham, unusually kind
Rebecca, his wife, came from a family evil and cruel
her brother Laban tried to rob Eliezer of all ...
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Categories:
foiling, betrayal, blessing, family, future,
Form: Couplet
After Reading Whitman, Gathering Airs and Tasting the Garnishes
...I am the wind
the textured curl of clouds
those specks of glitter
silver and gold are my
illustrative gleams
the foiling wings
that flutter and flap
feathers ripe with color
complementing...
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Categories:
foiling, christian, earth, environment, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
De Divorce
...ON DIVORCE
Old love is descending to a closure
It’s getting weaker as days go by;
Disturbing violently, my composure.
This changing life is waning hereby
Exploiting the darkness of separation;...
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Categories:
foiling, emotions, feelings,
Form: Terza Rima
Haft To My Cane
...I was born blind
I know not my front or behind
I see none beyond my brows
My fantoms only heven knows.
Beauty a mere figment to me
For love i ponder what it can be.
I heard hope is like sunri...
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Categories:
foiling, black love, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Solar Flare Alive
...Rolling through space Earth enjoys her comfortable
Distance from the giving sun, of his light, with
Warmth enwrapping daytime life of verdant growth in
Goodness wholesome grain, trees, wind, rain,...
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Categories:
foiling, earth, nature, planet, sun,
Form: Rhyme
A Legend of Football
...A short stout figure in the forward line of attack,
dribbled with the darting ball on the green turf.
With the magnetic pair of fleeting legs like a wizard,
spearheaded the formidable formation o...
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Categories:
foiling, games, obituary, soccer,
Form: Free verse
Joyous
...Joyous Noel
Splendorous with foil
Foiling the weather,
Birds fluffing feathers,
Joyous Noel
Keeping warm with kindness,
Strong with pine scents
Trees sparkling white, contents
Joyous Noel!
L...
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Categories:
foiling, christmas, holiday, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Indigestion
...the bridge he needed to cross was overgrown with tangled thicket’s brush
ragwort and giant hogweed littered the pernicious path to his own progress
of perspectives and the slow death from stag...
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Categories:
foiling, courage,
Form: Free verse
Reserata Carcerem Xix
...sometimes punctured passion's bruised blank:
bounty biddings could trace torn tracks
syllabic silhouettes sighing
dark dribbles - spelled sway of motive
fostered feelings foiling
porous pledge...
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Categories:
foiling, passion, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Xi
...when eerie emotions smother
passion, apt affairs affections punctured
urges oozing velocity
caught'n gaunt grasp of eroticism
when epacris ******** wail
trailing obsession, taunted trail -
hi...
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Categories:
foiling, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
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