Forget It
...People with good memory have a tough time forgetting,
And those with hearts attuned to others’ pain
Find wounds endure, their souls in silence fretting -
Emotions hurt, yet healing seems in vain....
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Categories:
fretting, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Autumn
...How spectacular your crisp, cold colors,
Autumn dear, your bright & brilliant hues.
The fruition of success & failure, previous;
Culminated countenance of consequence.
Bold can be...
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Categories:
fretting, autumn,
Form: Ode
Be Still
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"Be still…
and know God!"
Present in every
atom, manifestation of being:
The chatter of the day --
our desires, fretting,
unsettling nature of seemingly
sometimes fathomless night –
c...
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Categories:
fretting, christian, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Idyllic
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The majestic sense of a hidden place lies in its elusiveness
where secrets and dreams are allowed to intertwine.
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Categories:
fretting, places,
Form: Rhyme
Surreal cartwheel sublime PANTomime time
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No channel skipping ..no flannel...it was so gripping…hearts melt…Pant's ripping svelte pelt and belt..stripping and whipping..the fab never drab Rishab lab..was it real..felt like I was tripping… ...
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Categories:
fretting, sports,
Form: Free verse
Jofra vs Burmrah the crown jewel duel
...Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle
Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court
Fraught as they face a serious deleteriou...
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Categories:
fretting, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
PHILIPPIANS 4-6
...PHILIPPIANS 4-6
Count all those blessings
You’ve been given
Be it soul thankful
Of your all delivering
No fretting on yesterdays
Or now tomorrows
Abba Father doesn’t clean you sorrows
Let y...
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Categories:
fretting, appreciation, celebration, encouraging, god,
Form: Lyric
the end of everything
...The end of everything
The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been
the master of the vessel, a friendship between the animat...
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Categories:
fretting, age, art, books, break
Form: ABC
Flowers
...She said "Bring my flowers now, while I'm living"
and man, that really struck a chord with me
Too many people wait, and bring flowers to the grave,
crying over what could have been, and m...
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Categories:
fretting, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
King of Clowns
...You laughed too hard in 1996/
Thought I'd trip and stay down for kicks/
But I climbed back up, twice the size/
Now I shred, watch the sparks fly/
My drummer joked, said guitars are lame/
Left hi...
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Categories:
fretting, career, cool, funny, guitar,
Form: Free verse
Purple Dreams in Other Realms
...Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, she looked rathe...
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Categories:
fretting, dream, fairy, fantasy, father,
Form: Free verse
Gardening
...Outside my house, there is a crane.
Much to my disdain.
Tearing up my lawn looking for fossils.
But is it really worth tearing up my garden that’s full?
Tempting, trouble.
There are no valuab...
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Categories:
fretting, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Afterglow
...celestial smile
gold halo while birthing child
love afterglow proud
Father’s face painted relief and joy
Red eyes cry excited emerald voice
Little baby birthed after a journey
Nine months i...
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Categories:
fretting, angel, appreciation, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Thinking About Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
...Ziggy was a sexually curious alien
A celestial rock star from sanguine Mars
a Stardust being who journeyed to Earth
A Moon Age Starman made a five-year voyage
described in Bowie's playlist as h...
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Categories:
fretting, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Farewell
...And late at hour, by rippling roar
Of waters lapping 'neath the tor,
A figure bathed in lunar light
Who smiled and turned upon my sight.
And beating wings above the wight,
The somber creatures o...
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Categories:
fretting, father daughter, light, moon,
Form: Rhyme
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