Still, thou art such a passion pill
...Well-groomed ye keep thy tresses so curly,
Thy tender big eyes extend nigh till ears,
O thou so slender, heavenly fairy,
White teeth in thy fair visage endears,
Pearl garland adds to thy bosom...
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Categories:
fulsome, beauty, passion, women,
Form: Ottava rima
World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who
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Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf
The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
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Categories:
fulsome, sports,
Form: Rhyme
For Shining So Bright, You Burn Out and Die
...For shining so bright, you burn out and die;
for soaring too close to the sun, you fall
to the hard earth below and crash: “Too high,”
judge the gods; so, as lesson to us all,
you're ...
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Categories:
fulsome, destiny, fate, god, history,
Form: Sonnet
And The Point Is!
...How do you do, Point of Exclamation?!
We love your disposition of hooray,
We bask in your uplifting sensation,
Without you words would dry up in dismay.
“Oh thank you, I’m fantastic! Awe...
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Categories:
fulsome, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Verge of April
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Green twigs drip late into the day,
birdsongs bloom from the windblown.
Soft are the veins that leach from new leaf.
Sweet the prodigal sap that seeps.
Earthworms salt and curl in the o...
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Categories:
fulsome, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The House on Lake Maggiore
...The House on Lake Maggiore
The house on Lake Maggiore was reality, a physical truth,
my imagination became the artist.
The day has become a deckchair, gently folding itself up
as my walk le...
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Categories:
fulsome, home, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Song
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Parody of Christmas song "Christmas time is here"
Christmas comes not to stray
on the snow-stacked pathway.
Comes all the way so punctual
with the blissful occasion to pray.
Fa...
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Categories:
fulsome, celebration, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Forest
...In the mists of the giant bark beneath
rise old growth saplings out of crag and earth,
where tumbles an ancient evergreen leaf
from that marvel of great and splendid girth.
That footing s...
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Categories:
fulsome, beauty, growth, nature, tree,
Form: Sonnet
It Could Be Saturday
...The days melt a panting clock,
time paints a question mark,
just ahead of me.
Being mostly dug into a much-reclined age,
I do not labor in the wide-open or narrow life,
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Categories:
fulsome, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences through...
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Categories:
fulsome, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Song
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Summer lyric
Summer’s Gone
(Beach Boys from album “That’s why God made the radio”)
Summer's gone
Summer's gone away
Gone away
With yesterday
Old friends have gone
They've go...
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Categories:
fulsome, christmas, song, summer,
Form: Lyric
Friend Prayer
...I sleep well because of you. This thing inside me that you do. I wrote these words, so now too late to rewind, recall or obfuscate.
It's early and as I debate just what I should articulate.. from mi...
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Categories:
fulsome, friendship, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Crack
...Tao of the Cosmic Crack
flowing rivered crotch
between Great White Father's polarizing
zero-sum soiled soul
And silently suppressed
Black Hole
non-zero curious potential
double-circling inte...
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Categories:
fulsome, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Visitations
...I await sweet Annabelle
as I rest in this lonely bower.
I yearn to hear her angel voice
and feel her healing power.
Others come and others go
in times I'm given to folly,
like buxom Jenny Ramsb...
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Categories:
fulsome, age, angel, anxiety, dream,
Form: Bio
Reactions An Open Form
...REACTIONS
beyond
disdain
an underlying
attitude
subtanstial
shifts
in
a continuing
process
a
discovery
changed
forever
by
prevailing
conventions
an
apparent
reputation
...
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Categories:
fulsome, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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