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:
germinating, allegory, analogy, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
IN THE CULTIVATION OF LIBERTY
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IN THE CULTIVATION OF LIBERTY
Let’s cultivate hope;
germinating will power,
nourishing courage:-
Like mowed down green grass,
let’s keep regerminating:-
Fruits of courage reaped,
let’s s...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory,
Form: Tanka
IN THE WEATHERING OF WAR
...In The Weathering Of War
In today’s
storming war
weathering
world peace
is rotting out
and we need
to sow new seeds
of her
germinating
new fruits:
the weary world
Is starving
for new...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory,
Form: Free verse
TODAYS CULTIVATED WARS
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TODAY’S CULTIVATED WARS
War's rumors are plowed;
War sown seeds germinating:
Fruits of peace rotting:-
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, hyperbole, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
A POETIC TIMELINE
...The mind hangs in silence,
All is stilled, thoughts lingering
Lazily, as if in cosmic animation;
No words drip from the faucet that once
Streamed waters of creation, and now is
Only empty air ...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Tercet
GERMINATING GREEN GRASS
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Great
Glowing
Green grass
Gracefully growing
God’s greeting Goodness…
Springing
Spring’s
Sky
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Categories:
germinating, allegory,
Form: Free verse
PALASADES OF LOVE: A HAIKU QUARTET
...Trees are gifts from God
Rooted, trunked, and barked with love—
We are as God’s trees:-
In labors of love,
Let’s palisade life with love—
Our branches shading:-
Let our lovely leaves
Be a...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, analogy, beauty, extended
Form: Haiku
A MEMO TO SPRING HARVESTING OF HUED GRAPS OF WRATH
...The winter of our discontent is over,
the Merciful God of the oppressed
has seen to the de-icing of our hued souls;
and the blossoming essence of our liberation.
The grapes of spring are plenti...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
SEEDED HOPE
...SEEDED HOPE
Devastation comes,
life and nature suffering;
hope germinating:-...
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Categories:
germinating, extended metaphor, hope, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
SPROUTING
...SPROUTING LIFE...
Growth is challenging,
Germinating life struggles;
Sprouting has its pain:-...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, cheer up, destiny,
Form: Senryu
NIA
...NIA
A Kwanza Thought For Today)
Be the seed you are,
Sown here in the soils of hope;
Germinating hope:-
Your roots anchoring,
Be divine guidance growing;
Fruiting ripe wisdom:-
Inspiri...
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Categories:
germinating, black african american, community,
Form: Haiku
SPROUTING LIFE
...SPROUTING LIFE...
Growth is challenging,
Germinating life struggles;
Sprouting has its pain:-...
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Categories:
germinating, allegory, analogy, destiny, growth,
Form: Haiku
MOTIVATION
...From the daggers of pain of the failures and miseries in life,the horrors of nightmares of constant defeats like a wounded spartan soldier surrounded by a wide Persian army in the battlefield with t...
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Categories:
germinating, 9th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Space between Stars is not Empty
...black lit space surrounds…
rather, front lit lights
highlight cosmic vales
exposing fertile plains,
ideas yet to fully form
seedling thoughts
germinating
real threat ‘fore burstin...
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Categories:
germinating, creation, science,
Form: Free verse
In the undulations of thought, a whisper of freedom is born
...In the undulations of thought, a whisper of freedom is born,
Like a silver river carving its path through cliffs of prejudice,
Whispering truths that ache, yet heal in their profound silence.
Word...
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Categories:
germinating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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