Confronting Shadows
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With the romantic spectrum of sunburst sky’s fire
I profile the radiant rendering of my blazing desire,
where our harmonious hearts are entwined,
sutured by the enticing threads of sublime fo...
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Categories:
frilled, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Butterfly
...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath...
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Categories:
frilled, appreciation, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Plucking Petals
...she plucks pink petals one by one till there none
a stark bare stem with beauty gone and empty
would that she could glue them back but it is done
and now no soft and secret silk will te...
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Categories:
frilled, beauty, flower,
Form: Ottava rima
Portuguese Man o' War
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Sunrise and already the water
is being seared with a glow
as if under a grill.
You can feel the heat building
in the morning air, the sand
still warm from yesterday.
The tide has left...
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Categories:
frilled, morning, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
The Home We Made
...Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xia...
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Categories:
frilled, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
The Stately Iris Flower
...The Stately Iris Flower
Bearded irises are tall and stately in form
They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm
Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips
A swollen stem where...
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Categories:
frilled, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Underneath A Spell
...A dark blue midnight awning has its portrait,
etched by a a starlit silver lustrous galaxy,
silhouette of black lace frilled clouds,
in somber quietude adrift beneath a vibrant pearl,
amber mo...
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Categories:
frilled, beautiful, city, color, dream,
Form: Imagism
Underneath A Spell
...A dark blue midnight awning has its portrait,
etched by a starlit silver lustrous galaxy,
silhouette of black lace frilled clouds,
in somber quietude adrift beneath a vibrant pearl,
amber moon...
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Categories:
frilled, beautiful, city, color, dream,
Form: Imagism
My Red Red Roses POTD
...Red, red roses, you flowers of immortal love
You first blossomed in God’s Garden for Eve
In my garden too, you bloom so bright
I tend you with love and care day and night
You gladden ...
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Categories:
frilled, appreciation, flower, garden, love,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows
...In the twilight hour waning outside my window,
opening to the hues of the eventide horizon,
the sky shimmers with the last glorious glow
of the sun setting at the edge of the indigo ni...
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Categories:
frilled, analogy, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Rhythm Innate Chanso
...Diamond due droplets
Adorn fresh flowers
Calm comely comets
Flowers nectar filled
Sway in Zen Zephyr
Petals curl furl frilled
Zen Zephyr scent wafts
Tempt the tender buds
Taunt the tough ...
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Categories:
frilled, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Shakespeare Speaks
...How fast time has fled in limitless wingspan
How months and years have merged into eons
Bringing such changes, so awesome and spectacular
I have come swinging open the iron gates
Of...
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Categories:
frilled, appreciation, change, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscope
...Across the sideways, bronze framed hall mirror,
A ribbon of infrared light imprinted itself,
Like a streak of alien sky;
Hours later, it dimmed and blew out, like an ill-furnished house.
Other re...
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Categories:
frilled, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Roses
...Lo, the Roses which bloom in my garden, bright
I tend them with love and care day and night
These roses gladden me all through the day
That my verse on roses, before you, gleefully I l...
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Categories:
frilled, appreciation, beauty, flower,
Form: Rhyme
A Jolly Fisherman
...Driven by a growing angling fad
The jolly fisherman took a fishing rod
And walked onto the nearby stream
As the sun rose from the mountain seam
He had in mind the swimming Trout
Wi...
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Categories:
frilled, devotion, endurance, fishing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
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