Carol
...Upon the eve of dying
she could not speak.
And all her opened tear ducts
Sprang awake
And flooded forth from
The founts of creation
A new sea.
Oh, yes!
She cried a sea of tears
Because her...
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Categories:
founts, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
If Life Did Not Have Glitches
...If life did not have glitches,
Then of what would we complain?
There’d be endless founts of riches
And no one would be in pain.
All our nervous tics and twitches,
Since they all would be in va...
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Categories:
founts, life,
Form: Rhyme
If Bane of Joys be to get Blase
...Joy of pleasure, a child of poor parents,
Bliss alone founts from a perpetual spring,
Joy fancies scores of fond uncles and aunts,
Never lasts long the song they choose to sing.
Being a moth mad...
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Categories:
founts, joy,
Form: Sonnet
The Hungry Stones V
...In time when night turned to dawn, I could see,
It all appeared like sheer fantasy.
Light-hearted, I put on my office hat,
And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat
To drive away myself to sink ...
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Categories:
founts, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Sign On a Backwoods Road
...Hairy spiders do not grill
steaks on consecutive Tuesdays
due to alternate-side-residency-
restrictions in bushes on parkways
Nevertheless, if seeking opportunities
to slake cr...
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Categories:
founts, poetry, water,
Form: Rhyme
Eyes of Storm
...- - - Call her “Tempest”, for hers are eyes of storm.
- Winds of passions held at bay, a torrent of tears uncried,
- - - - Fulmine sparks caged in those confines
- yearn to fl...
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Categories:
founts, encouraging, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Swaying To the Sound
...Have you ever felt from a song
A song that reminded you how you can live
The rush of the wind, the desire to climb
A quickly-building monument to the beauty of creation
How quickly a mood cha...
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Categories:
founts, halloween, me,
Form: Free verse
Graffiti Traces On a Crumbling Wall
...My sister stopped to visit on her flight home from a tropic isle.
Are COVID mutants on last legs? (Most think their death’s long overdue!)
Trump’s naive crimes seem more passé though Putin dreams h...
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Categories:
founts, blessing, friendship, love, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Just What Are We To Make of the Angelic
...Just what are we to make of the angelic,
Afresh from battle, bearers of good news?
A construct quaint, a worn-out, ancient relic
Of bygone days the church just needs to lose?
No infant cherubs ...
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Categories:
founts, angel,
Form: Sonnet
The Fountainhead of Dreams
...Pennies, dimes; silver dollars rare
are flung into cool water where
passers-by for a while have stayed
Do dreams from fountains now cascade?
Since some who come are well aware
when tossing coi...
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Categories:
founts, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Petrichor and Vellichor
...A choir of rainfall on soft stones
Bookmarked by wistful nature
Sweet melancholy shelved for
Another day in bed with a book
Yet he opens not only his heart
But windows and soulful fo...
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Categories:
founts, art,
Form: Free verse
My World Without You, My Poesy
...When you are with no companion
and no one can read your very silence
When you are brimmed with joy
and you find no sign of warmth
When your solitude is lonely
and you cease to feel the wonde...
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Categories:
founts, art, beauty, creation, growth,
Form: Free verse
Stellar Cradle
...Rock-a-bye starlets where the Swan flies.
Like earthly Sun, your day will arise.
Bright shall you reign, before your light dies.
So shine in your cradle high in the skies.
Cygnus OB2, the place...
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Categories:
founts, baby, birth, fantasy, song,
Form: Verse
Portrait of An Aged Scholar
...The stooped gait
the squinting eye
A curmudgeon sure
personified...
Yet when from parted lips
his timeless treasures poured
The very Founts of Wisdom
yearned for even more...
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Categories:
founts, age, teacher, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Soup Rocks
...Poets around the world gather right here
Over mounts and founts where muse is found clear
Expecting greatness from Poetry Soup
Then finding it when you need to recoup
...
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Categories:
founts, inspirational, joy, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
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