Circles Spread on the Surface
...Circles spread on the surface
And disappear in the pool
And do it so lightly - it must
Be starting to sprinkle.
Where are the grayish clouds
I should see in the reflection?
Where are...
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Categories:
grayish, confusion, sad, water,
Form: Rhyme
mystic in the mirror
...mystical phantom
grayish shadow reflection
hides inside mirror...
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Categories:
grayish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Senryu
an overcast Kansas Day
...an overcast Kansas day
the kind that gives you a sunburn
without any sun
the clouds are dark grayish blue
thick sluggish unmoving
I stare into them seeking my Archangel Michael...
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Categories:
grayish, angel,
Form: Free verse
Tired War, Release the Monkeys
...Tired War,Release the Monkeys
They tried to nail my boot to the floor
No nail puller
My influence won the day
I was the monkey man
Earn the right
I want to ask
Just for a little more ti...
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Categories:
grayish, allusion, friend, planet, war,
Form: Free verse
Old Men Walking To The Sea
...OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA
OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA
GOING DOWN HILL THREE BY THREE
FOAMING MIST AND DISTANT THUNDER
OCEANS DEEP AND FILLED WITH WONDER
PASSING GATE AND ANCIENT TREE
HEAR...
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Categories:
grayish, boat, fish, old,
Form: Rhyme
We loved like a thunderstorm
...We loved like a thunderstorm
Brief, but powerful
Before the thunder even started
There were warning signs
Like a slight breeze
And when lightning struck
It destroyed yet stopped after a whi...
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Categories:
grayish, storm,
Form: Free verse
Sharita loves Make Up
...Sharita was running out of make up on this strange night
She had put turquoise and purple in her hair all right
Her eyelids were painted a lovely grayish blue with dazzle
I need more make-up she s...
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Categories:
grayish, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Loyal Love
...Dedicated to My Blessing, Timothy Lee, with Endless Love
Loving me includes a two-for-one, challenging package
because I love and care for my grown, special-needs son.
He said...
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Categories:
grayish, absence, care, character, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Outside
...Outside is where stones are.
All around.
You could have filled your pockets with stones.
And then you didn’t.
You miss that grayish stone with the brown dot.
Outside is where there are pla...
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Categories:
grayish, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Queen Has a Navy that Floats in Her Gravy
...The Queen has a navy
That floats in her gravy,
It’s sharp and its clear,
But it’s sure tough to steer,
For the rudders get stuck
In that thick, grayish muck,
And the lads in the stern
Have a p...
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Categories:
grayish, adventure, allegory, boat, character,
Form: Light Verse
Waves Meet Shadows
...Tides crashing ashore
Under grayish humid skies
Laughter hides the storm...
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Categories:
grayish, anxiety, depression,
Form: Senryu
Forever's Loving Rose
...T’would seem the edge of beauty unexposed
Relies upon the images it stirs
More so than that, forever’s loving rose
Though faded knows she was the one he chose
For memory, though dark, still hol...
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Categories:
grayish, love, lust, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Frozen stars in the shadows of changing seasons, the pain of love engraved in acrylic gold
...Frozen stars in the shadows of changing seasons, the pain of love engraved in acrylic gold
Swirls through the sunlight, draped in somber mists, the echo of endless memories
Of a timeless love story...
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Categories:
grayish, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
CHAZZ-
...ain’t no quartz banger
ain’t naw quartz banger
no, no, no quartz banger
don’t do them dabs
are burned too hot
or too much heat is applied
juzt mine fingers be burning
as I play tha piano
a...
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Categories:
grayish, analogy, celebration, character, courage,
Form: Lyric
Nickle plated oboes
...Red Slime: must you disguise your worth
aren't you treasure
which Mica and quarts
sand and gold
Aren't you tresure
that a torch should solitify
you into a crystalized anomlly
aren't as much tr...
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Categories:
grayish, crazy, music,
Form: Ballad
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