Wedding Free Verse Poems

green and white sign
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado" 
greets my eyes
as Mt Blanca rises 
smooth and elegant 
as a wedding cake
draped with fondant
late April snow coated
majestic...

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April 4—Personal grooming…

Ending Daily Shaving in Retirement

When Sam Adams
retired from
 the U.S. Department of State,

he made five vows
which he kept for years.

first, he would quit...

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Love takes different steps in different cultures, 
If touching means a show of affection, 
If holding hands in privacy mean anything, 
It's a sincere show...

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In the realm of shadow where memories are born and die unnaturally,
And stars watch in silence, reflecting celestial nostalgias.
The Moon dresses in the silk of...

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cabernet and dragonflies -
   red and green fireworks
      flitting about tall trunks;
   the woods is dark....

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Carry my heart in your arms through the mist between worlds,
To the place where dreams germinate and reality sheds its garments.
In a sanctuary of love,...

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Uncooked grains of rice caked our apartment.
Dug themselves into my pliable plantar aspect
I welcomed you from the bottom of my being,
Into my soul,
A friend that...

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4 months
4 months of I love you’s and late-night conversations
Conversations about college and dogs and anything we could think of
Conversations about how many kids we...

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from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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The wedding photograph took centre stage

Eight great years

Two years gone now

She had sort of moved on

Slowly

She gazed at the photograph

So strange, it looked different

It was...

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       The voyage in life has many wonderful opportunities along the way - 
     ...

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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
In my ramshackle torn straw old bed 
The mice are chewing my toes
And the bedbugs bite...

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Sometimes
When we have a loving relationship
Life gets in the way
The pressures of work money worries
Piles of unpaid bills
Not enough time for each other
The relationship erodes...

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I wear a favorite ring now all the time.
On my wedding ring finger, but it is not a wedding ring.
It features a gorgeous blue pear-shaped...

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Black and White – 3-18-24
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Black and White

Black and white come in focus -
Absent of prime –
A slice of life exposed through the lens,
A flash-dance of...

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