TO THE VINING CHILDREN, VIBING
...TO THE VINING CHILDREN…VIBING…
(Apropos Of A Scriptural Inspiration)
Let us be as the Vines
Of The Gardener;
Let us who have been pruned
With love and awareness,
Have branches sharing fruits...
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Categories:
fruited, allegory, analogy, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Monbazillac
...Let yourself be tempted,
You who have sorrow,
You who sings out of tune,
Let yourself be tempted
You who sleep so badly,
Among the ghosts,
Let yourself be tempted
By my Monbazillac,
Let you...
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Categories:
fruited, drink, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
...How can I sever wolf-waves from the selfish sea?
I ache to cut the rogue from the relentless flow
his crest —swelled in high rise on testosterone tide—
swindles my tease to tame his blue Neptune f...
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Categories:
fruited, beach, conflict, longing, love
Form: Free verse
American Dreams
...(Verse 1)
Well, I remember back in school, a song we'd all uphold,
"America, America," we'd sing it, hearts so bold.
Oh, beautiful for heroes proved in battles fought and won,
Who more than self,...
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Categories:
fruited, analogy, beautiful, beauty, break
Form: Ballad
A Star Is Born
...A novice sorts out centerstage
then gaze at the spotlight above,
and celebrate the art thereof
that host town folks from Shakespeare days,
they swam her brain like surfing waves,
she's adrift in...
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Categories:
fruited, star,
Form: Italian Sonnet
HAILING MARY
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HAILING MARY
(A Haiku Quintet)
Gardening Mary...
Her fruit of love blossoming...
The Christ child is born...
Her Rose of Love, born:
Crucified stem…petals of resu...
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Categories:
fruited, allegory, christmas, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Homage to Nature
...An abandoned cottage holds
remnants of secrets unexplored.
the past ~ whispers ~ through
a creaky wooden ...
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Categories:
fruited, nature,
Form: Rhyme
America The Broken
...America The Broken
“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain
I pause “For purple mountain majestie...
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Categories:
fruited, america, angst, blessing, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Two faced science
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I trusted all doctors, thought they know best
So many years learning, a noble quest
They want to do well by helping you
But from any kind of knowledge, evil can brew.
Scott was a dentist, a n...
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Categories:
fruited, evil,
Form: Lyric
The Jimply
..."Walk!", cried the jimply from his perch
above the fruited plain.
With fiery lanterns they did search
o'er the vast terrain.
They trudged all day and trudged all night
until each got a small b...
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Categories:
fruited, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
America at a critical political crossroads
...America at a critical political crossroads...,
nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...
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Categories:
fruited, abuse, america, angst, august,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Eden
...My little Eden --
before the fall
a screened porch
in the shade of
an ancient
overarching
fig tree
small wonder
Adam and Eve
needed only one each
to hide their new
nakedness --
ch...
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Categories:
fruited, environment, evil, garden, god,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
...The ethereal lantern carries a flame
lit by the soul
that shines a glorious glow of spirituality
upon our lifeforce
with visions of serene beauty
painted from the palette of unknown color
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Categories:
fruited, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Soft Murmurings
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Like an avian roosting when his cawing has spilled,
I mourn in grief as this shadowed night grows cold
Crushed and grieving from promises unfulfilled
Sorrow burgeons my heart, in bitterness ...
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Categories:
fruited, fear, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Photonic Participle
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In the quiet whispers of dreams,
I dance with shadow's ebonescence,
as photonic particle - collider,
photosynthesis derider,
unveiling entities,
of "agents provocateur...
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Categories:
fruited, art,
Form: Ballad
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