The Fab Four is no more
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The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders..
Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations...
Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers..
Listen…whispers of willow wizardry...
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Categories:
garlanded, sports,
Form: Rhyme
rainfall on roses, petals fall
...I grew a rose from cuttings
pinched from a loved one's plot,
watered at ground-level, not at the top.
Dung and mulch kept well away,
from stems lest their collars rot.
In time, it grew buds tha...
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Categories:
garlanded, forgiveness, rose,
Form: Free verse
Turn Left at the lights
...Obtuse abuse..rude platitudes shout..
About alternative attitudes..generations..
Scream at different altitudes & latitudes..
Venerate mandarins sins..
Generate pernicious vicissitudes
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Categories:
garlanded, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Koropuko Falls
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Hunger for perfectly placed punga path
Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf
Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor
Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed
Glorious green sheens in ...
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Categories:
garlanded, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Bluebell Dells
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Idyllic illicit illusion…
Complicit daydream delusion…
Explicit panoply profusion…
Other worldly garlanded gems..
Purring poetic…balletic..stirring kinetic aesthetic..
Absurdly drop ...
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Categories:
garlanded, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to Charlie Brown's Christmas
...Our picture frame window
Is garlanded with evergreen limbs
Twined in white twinkling lights pinecones and fairy bells
And outside
From the dinner time dark that is a week before Christmas
Santa ...
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Categories:
garlanded, america, christmas, december, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Corinna Translations
...CORINNA
I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch
Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—...
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Categories:
garlanded, father, friend, hero, rose,
Form: Free verse
White Beauties of My Garden
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"Flowers, the emblems of beauty and fragrance proudly assert that loveliness can catch every eye and brighten even the gloomiest heart" ~ By Poet
look at these white blossoms,
at...
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Categories:
garlanded, appreciation, beauty, flower,
Form: Imagism
In Lotus Bliss
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Synthetic is the world we’re living in.
Plastic’s life seems timeless; it can’t replace
nature’s portraits: skies that leave us breathless,
bright swirling leaves, and ru...
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Categories:
garlanded, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Spring I Relish Your Shine
...Inspired by :
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it."
E.E. Cummings
Placed second in :
A-Types of Forms Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
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Categories:
garlanded, appreciation, beauty, seasons, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Escape
...at the edge of the cliff,
she stood,
determined…….
eyes limpid pools of sadness
hair wind swept.
flawed….
damaged?
the swirling enormity below
inviting….!
nested in her own ignoran...
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Categories:
garlanded, angst, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse
Memory At Sunset
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Landscape lost in the past
Landscape of my memory
Memory reflects time ingrained in
Memory of twilight gleam
Gleam that swathed the horizon
Gleam that wrapped the blue hills
Hills rolled do...
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Categories:
garlanded, childhood, memory,
Form: Blitz
INGENUITY - PROTOCOL
...INGENUITY
laurels
garlanded
so
breath taking
swirls
of
foliage
simulated
&
envisioned
so
elegantly
vibrant in
sacred
spaces
warm
&insitent
with
intangible
clarity
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Categories:
garlanded, poetry,
Form: Verse
Autumnal
...As school children scurry to school
like the multi-colored leaves that will soon
be hurried along the roads by October winds,
we feel and we know
that a new season is upon us.
Stifling summer’s...
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Categories:
garlanded, autumn,
Form: Free verse
I'm An Orange Monkey
...I'm an orange monkey
in China I was made,
stitched with much affection
and garlanded with braid.
Purchased then on eBay
and wrapped to make a gift,
I was posted to a friend
who felt a little...
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Categories:
garlanded, child, fantasy, feelings, humorous,
Form: Ballad
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