Genesis
...When the land was smooth, life brand-new
In Eden, there lived one, then two
Since the Earth's dawn, man walked as youth
Life brand-new, when the land was smooth
In the garden were two sweet blo...
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Categories:
grapevines, betrayal, bible, corruption, creation,
Form: Quatrain
Summer At a Riverbank
...Summer arrives in golden light,
Mountains shed their snowy white.
The river moves with joyful gleam,
Shining bright in the sun’s beam.
Through rocky beds, she winds with ease,
Nourishing earth...
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Categories:
grapevines, animal, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Writer
...Why we'd catered to the foundation of unpopular beliefs beyond what a romance like ours would follow beneath the calmness of people like us the fascinating wonder along the cities shoreline of gut wr...
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Categories:
grapevines, allah,
Form: Naat
Character Witness
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I wouldn't bother
alchemizing language
into golden press releases
of your own making.
It never works long anyway,
grapevines get better reception.
A dog knows who flinches.
Moss grows w...
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Categories:
grapevines, growth, irony,
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torren...
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Categories:
grapevines, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
The definition of love
...Love is said to be so many things a man can define, an unexplainable, heart-warming and deep sensation filled with the tentacles of nostalgia, a feeling so selfish to react to and unselfish to share ...
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Categories:
grapevines, age, anger, art, best
Form: Free verse
A VINE IN WINTER
...A VINE IN WINTER
Cut back and trimmed to grow back in Spring
But soon there will be all those signs of growth
Rows of vines up the hillside that started thinner
Next year’s grape harvest may ev...
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Categories:
grapevines, drink, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
The Garden of Glory, here and now
...You will see heaven and earth roll up as a scroll
You will read the Word, written in twigs and rocks
You will hear the scroll of the Word quake as light sets
You will feel starlight pearl br...
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Categories:
grapevines, garden, heaven, hope, islamic,
Form: Free verse
winding road
...pathway back to woods
grapevines twisted through fence line
priceless memories...
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Categories:
grapevines, home,
Form: Haiku
Let's Rhyme
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There was to be a realignment of time;
A time to be freed from the ties that bind.
Many things were both 'in and out' of line.
There was a top secret of the most divine kind,
and no one hear...
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Categories:
grapevines, jesus,
Form: Monorhyme
Once Called Paradise
...Gravel road winds up to the gate
logs from a bygone era, sturdy
electrified now, to keep out ~
or perhaps to keep in ~
The cowshed, chicken coop
scraggly gardens and gr...
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Categories:
grapevines, dad, farm, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Free verse
Old and New 2 : Boardroom
...OLD AND NEW 2 : BOARDROOM
Jackal preyed on dimpled dolls
smiling gold on slender wrist
nosing down a slippery path
scowling schoolboy promoted
beyond his mediocre castle
Mammals sat on...
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Categories:
grapevines, africa, allegory, confusion, extended
Form: Political Verse
Where I Am Free
...WHERE I AM FREE
My freedom lies beyond
the cloud of unknowingness
beyond mists of time where
I disappear into olive groves
which furl and unfurl in slow dawns
Here there are no gates
la...
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Categories:
grapevines, butterfly, change, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Wanda Woman
...She takes her wand a sugar cane long
And waves it in the air singing a song
She likes to make her heroic cape
From collard green leaves that she crochet
She makes her brazier from coconuts
Wit...
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Categories:
grapevines, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
The Grapevines of Disgrace
...Inspired by Love in the Dark by Adele and Oh My God by Adele as well :)
I don’t trust anyone anymore…
Don’t care to love you to the core…
Why give in to your charms?
Why decide to be in your a...
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Categories:
grapevines, desire, emotions, endurance,
Form: Lyric
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