Gathering of Poets
The first Wednesday of the month
we sit around the table and share
poems written with care and revised.
We take in their shapes and forms
and read between the lines.
We gasp with wonder about creations
and search for other words
to make each verse stronger.
Each of us has written volumes by now
the lives we shared month-by-month.
A retired lawyer has returned
from
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Categories:
gathering(a), absence, appreciation, community, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gathering at the cemetery
It was a somber cloudy day, sadness weighed heavy on us all. The family gathered to pay final respects. Gregorian chant filled the air as we looked up to heaven. We were burying a good man. He had been a role model, a loving husband and a caring father.
the finality
painfully sinking in
goodbyes surreal
AP: Honorable Mention
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Categories:
gathering(a), death, goodbye, grief, loss,
Form: Haibun
Gathering Dust
Dust drops like silent thoughts, neglected
over the piano lid, shut quiet and still.
Some dust we keep as mementos
in a chaotic pile of keepsakes.
Some we wipe away on a rainy day,
with windows wide open to keep it from our nostrils.
We wipe away the fingerprints left by
the guilty one, the cleaner upper-er,
to leave no trace for retribution.
Neglect,
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Categories:
gathering(a), memory,
Form: Free verse
The Family Gathering
Lamentable, the family gathering
on the other side of sunshine,
with possessions no longer bothering,
sans loving cups, draining of wine.
Great-grands, grands, aunts, uncles, cousins and unborn,
one mom, a nephew, memories
their perspectives (only they carry). Torn,
yellowed pages of treasuries.
Climbing steps, silver dollars, and finger gloves,
savory chicken and dumplings,
boat on the lake, seashells on velvet (these loves)
tricks and treats,
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Categories:
gathering(a), family,
Form: Elegy
Weekly Gathering
Do-si-do, arm-in-arm, amidst friends, armed with wit,
wisdom, smiles, engaged; to each other, commit.
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Categories:
gathering(a), people,
Form: Couplet
The Gathering
There was a great stillness in the air
and no sounds save a whispering sort of breeze
that spoke of something near, soon to be there
and silently urged all to bended knees
We spoke of a feeling of being called as others began to arrive
and as a brightening sky drew eyes skyward, we could see
a distant form, descending…….yes
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Categories:
gathering(a), christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Hermit Carb Poem
Step Outline- Hiking Trail (A Horror)
Prologue
Ext. Woodland Park, Upstate California- Sunset
It’s mid-autumn, hot. A week before school starts, there’s a family gathering. A young woman is arguing with her father. She’s holding onto her food. Then, she grabs her purse and storms off. Her father calls after her, but she’s heading into the mouth of
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Categories:
gathering(a), dark, daughter, father, film,
Form: Free verse
As sand is slowly shifting through an hour glass, so are the remaining earthly days, of our lives
It was something that the Holy Spirit, recently gave unto me as an open vision.
He showed me the picture of an hour glass that was practically almost running
out of time. And than I saw the word "RAPTURE!" Right along with these very
self same words, "WE ARE VERY RAPIDLY RUNNING OUT OF TIME!"
The Holy Spirit
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Categories:
gathering(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Buddy 3
My buddy wants me to go.
In the midst of that made-up nature,
just for the general attendance
and just as a general creature,
to a gathering I sometimes find
so fake and shallow.
She said so formally,
"Why would you need anybody ?
Go, be by yourself, and have fun !"
But buddy, if you could only tell,
"Just go for me,
breaking your aversive
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Categories:
gathering(a), feelings, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Broadway Ballad Christmas Gathering
The Male Belgium Blue
Spieciem #.0009-280
and Female specimen
Brown Swiss--290
( a deluxe wool Hat)
Swiss Maids Uniiform
west cotton that rots
but new she's a doll!
said Bisser Daned to have
the calf in the spring
but his wife wished it for
Christmas thyme and
all the joy it would bring.
Thought the cold winters
harshness
werst the chances
of success.
The newly built insulated
barn
was ready for the test.
He shall
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Categories:
gathering(a), celebrity, culture, dance, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR GATHERING US TOGETHER
November 29 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 5-8
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR GATHERING US TOGETHER
Praise be to God for gathering us together
in the
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Categories:
gathering(a), bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Enjamblment, Gathering and Forging
Of the evidence -
Oh the preponderance of tabulated facts
If for not the days accumulated notes
Might the proceedings be held of lack
Perhaps a pensive notion
Deep within the womb
Leading to retraction before the ultimate impact
Spreading a distant plume
A scavenger of such
Gathering and forging on
To find a key of existence
To find the truth in this
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Categories:
gathering(a), destiny, endurance, future, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Family gathering
Time for reflection
catching up on old times
missed throughout the year
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Categories:
gathering(a), family,
Form: Senryu
CELEBRATION
My idea of celebration...
Collection by collaboration.
A feast with friends of then and now
With family too, blood and somehow.
A table big enough to chair
All of the people here and there
With whom my time that I would share...
Both the common and the rare.
Each member and every mate
Would have before them their own plate
And cup to wine, dine
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Categories:
gathering(a), celebration, hello, together,
Form: Rhyme
NATURES FATHOM GATHERING-
Always believing
carousels driven
elvoved from gathering
hibucius industrilized junipers kisses lingering meaningful nightfall omnipresent...
presenting quakes rolling seas tumults undermining
vessels wavering
x-grove yachting zealotry
All-aboard Boarding cruise
8/16/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Categories:
gathering(a), allusion, analogy, appreciation, community,
Form: ABC
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