Palimpsest of Love
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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba...
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Categories:
gamboled, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Conquered, Part I
...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains,
had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained,
fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw,
scramblin...
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Categories:
gamboled, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
Jack, Dare to Believe
...Jack Allen was a serious, shy schoolboy, who worked hard at school lessons;
Like mottled skies working hard each day, to convey many color obsessions.
Jack was a little small for his age,...
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Categories:
gamboled, beauty, confidence, fantasy, hero,
Form: Couplet
Happiness vs Misery
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Written: February 29, 2024
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In a sprawling sward of auburn swab
A seraphic sight soaked in dew at dawn
dazed distress and dust-laden air
delic...
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Categories:
gamboled, analogy, angst, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye and Good Riddance Former Ersatz Trumpeting President
...Joseph Robinette Biden
now commander in chief yay
manning ship of state
tossing anchors aweigh
heavily pierced tattooed
donning sheepish pirate(s)
at heady roiling waterway
fending off trollin...
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Categories:
gamboled, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
A Parallel Earth
...It was the weekend, and I was sleeping late that day,
Alone with the morning, while savoring marvels of May.
As I drowsed luxuriantly, at the outskirts of dreams,
I heard a strange sound, while ...
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Categories:
gamboled, adventure, earth, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Irretrievable
...I stroll a silvered landscape
where trees are silhouetted spears,
stabbing memories of days first walked with you . . .
ice traceries, firey strands of longing lace,
wrap the crumbling dream,
li...
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Categories:
gamboled, betrayal, desire, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
Blackbird
...The little blackbird
watches over me.
How do I know
it is he?
It is the nestling
from the elkhorn
covered tree.
The way he gamboled
in the garden spray
and danced
with the roses
throwing t...
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Categories:
gamboled, garden,
Form: Free verse
Cold Day At the Zoo
...The ring-tailed lemurs swished their stripes;
The tortoises perambled.
Rhinoceroses munched on hay;
The seals caroused and gamboled.
A winter day with snow on tap
Was perfect for the zoo.
The...
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Categories:
gamboled, animal, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Ramblers
...’Tween hither and thither while wending our way,
skipping, dancing through sand dunes in seascape croquet
and woven in waves watching dolphins at play,
I first tasted her lips in the ocean’s wild ...
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Categories:
gamboled, fantasy, love,
Form: Quatrain
My Way, I Know It Well
...I know it, I know it well
Its to pleased myself, the lost part
Hanged in the neck and cuffed on the wrist
Whilst long ago father lived at peace, he was him
And here I claimed intelligence
Intelligenc...
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Categories:
gamboled, philosophy, me, lost, day,
Form: Classicism
Götterdämmerung Part 1
...Author's suggestion - goes best with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKA4b5SFq4 as you read. Don't forget to continue to "Götterdämmerung Part 2"
He sees her in his thoughts his dreams
Haunt...
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Categories:
gamboled, loss, lost love
Form: Rhyme
The Window
...She rocked Danny nigh the window in her rocking chair,
Cuddled him closely and hummed an ancient Irish air.
As she gazed thro' the window at the vast horizons beyond,
She pondered her precious gif...
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Categories:
gamboled, sadmother,
Form: Rhyme
Their Last Climb
...Tough Hood's winter face is a bluff
The snow folds like marshmallow fluff
We would call you soon
If you gamboled in June
But you bet you had the right stuff...
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Categories:
gamboled, adventure
Form: Limerick