Love Will Forgive Again
...Caught in the in between
So cold there now
This time the pain rains down
So lonely now
So scared of what may never come
In a trance blinded by all I fear
How do I grow out side the datk
How do...
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Categories:
grained, dark, fear, history, how
Form: Free verse
Wide Eyed Saunter Part Two
...There’s a burning yen nomadic deep within entrenched,
to absorb fresh environments ambrosial on foot,
where incidental hue or august colour wash abound,
or that March bloom tantalising shady patch...
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Categories:
grained, celebration, character, color, deep,
Form: Haibun
Wide Eyed Saunter
...There is an urge within me to wander randomly,
to explore in vivid detail each kaleidoscope,
incidental hue or pristine colour I encounter,
or just as likely that tantalising shady patch,
with it...
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Categories:
grained, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haibun
ENGRAVISTA durer goya
...ENGRAVISTA
en relief
intaglio planar
grounded
spur-like aquinted
grained
messaging
of defined
contour
en register
meshed
toothed
burnished
etched
dry p...
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Categories:
grained, art,
Form: Didactic
On the Porch
...I pictured a yard with flowers wild
I pictured a dog amongst the reeds
I pictured a tree swing and a child
I pictured a pond with swimming geese
I pictured a mountain as my view
I pictured ...
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Categories:
grained, appreciation, blessing, destiny, i
Form: Rhyme
Bruising Words
...Words too often have rough edges,
bloody histories,
lines more defined
than relentlessly imaged cliffs,
worshipping sacred sunlight shades
of high hazards
Coveted risks
more than needed oppo...
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Categories:
grained, health, integrity, language, nature,
Form: Political Verse
He's Not Worth It
...the common stone is useful
though others seem to mock
praising up their special gems
not solid as a rock
there we have the flowers
for everybody's needs
though holding all together
is solid...
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Categories:
grained, words,
Form: Rhyme
Vietnam Sniper
...VietNam Sniper
It seems that the night lingers then departs clawing
for one more minute, but in a vain attempt to defeat the sun.
The encumbered fog groans and gently rises from
The ground...
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Categories:
grained, military, war,
Form: Prose
Lessons Too Late For Learning
...Standing on the shore
waves lapping at the sands of the past
beaten down and grained in time
between the foam and the surf;
an image forms,
salt air, moistening the eyes
burning, tearing at...
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Categories:
grained, america, angst,
Form: Carpe Diem
Grandfather Clock - Variation On a Triolet
...Grandfather Clock
(A Variation on a Triolet)
When I was young, not four foot tall,
My Grandpa’s clock I remember well
Stood and chimed, alone in the hall,
When...
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Categories:
grained, 4th grade, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Rivers' Dream
...St. Lawrence river in the spring
when a lake makes the ocean its' dream
shallow ice and sand bend the wind
the twigs begin to twitch and spin
sandwiched like a water gin
buds burn thr...
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Categories:
grained, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Cradle With Love
...Cradle your love gently in caring hands
Tenderly as velvety fine grained-sands
Be the rainbow in their showery days
Today tomorrow forever always.
Love graceful as pirouetting snowfl...
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Categories:
grained, family, friend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Chimed Upper Room
...*Image of Hallmark Channel by Giphy.
Chimed Upper Room
Chimed new day shines...eagerly corrects an upper room looks,
An attic improving rapidly...promotes roams of dil...
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Categories:
grained, happy, memory, sad,
Form: Sijo
Tekeli Pitha
...My beloved tekeli pitha!
They are rice cakes from Assam.
They are made by steaming them in a kettle (I call tekeli) lid.
Tekeli pitha
or
Kettle cake
tint of jaggery
making love with crushe...
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Categories:
grained, 12th grade, beauty, celebration,
Form: Epic
Words Forever Young
...As my body stoops with age,
youth lulls upon the page
Where words forever young,
cry willful to be sung
As daylight quickly passes,
I greet night a friend at last
With memories deeply gra...
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Categories:
grained, song, words, youth,
Form: Rhyme
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