STORM CLOUDS ARE BREWING
...STORM CLOUDS ARE BREWING*
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The evening news lulls me into a nightmarish sleep.
In the distance ominous, greenish-colored storm clouds are bre...
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Categories:
greenish, 12th grade, change, storm,
Form: Haibun
Ancient Winds Of Time
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Rain falls softly on the purple flower as it swings to and fro
in a field where everything blooms according to nature's will
Steadfast and strong the morning sun rises in the East
upon a lush...
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Categories:
greenish, analogy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Bamboo
...Grant me rest under your lissome stems
Let me hide from the raindrops — shiny globules
That drip with tropical hauteur,
Rain that harms the ribs with cold rebukes.
Welcome me within your greenish...
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Categories:
greenish, africa, environment, life,
Form: Ode
Autumn is Near
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Autumn is near
When nights on hours of the day do impinge
Softer are the rays of mid-day sun...
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Categories:
greenish, appreciation, autumn, bird, flower,
Form: Other
Mint Blue
...My nail polish matches turquoise streak on the menthol cigarette.
My mood matches the greenish mint blue color of my cuticles.
My day going by as long as nail polish had to dry....
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Categories:
greenish, beauty,
Form: Sijo
Baobab
...Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shiver...
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Categories:
greenish, africa,
Form: Free verse
Along came a hoopoe once again
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Everyone loves him. A nice amicable guy, as he is no relative, he is no refrain. He starts within a rhythm when often a melody is surreal and soars along the flight of the song, up high, high ab...
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Categories:
greenish, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
If My Ancestor Boarded The Titanic
...If he had boarded the frail proud lady,
My ancestor would have been a hysteric.
It would have been nothing new to him, though —
Boarding such a mighty vessel
With an unsinkable testimonial.
He h...
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Categories:
greenish, sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
Baobab
...Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shiver...
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Categories:
greenish, africa,
Form: Ode
Flying Like a Lark
...Inspired by Prince Roger Nelson`s song “Play in the Sunshine”.
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Flying Like a Lark
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Categories:
greenish, bird, inspirational, self, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Calypte Anna
...Bronze, green, gray
shocking pink, metallic red
purplish rose, white,
metallic greenish black,
brown, iridescent colors
Oh! Unlimited palette
I fail to mix colors
to capture beauty
of nec...
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Categories:
greenish, bird,
Form: Free verse
My Night Of Terror
...There’s a lot of strange things going on in our world and our governments keep many of these sinister goings on under wraps.
Quote by poet.
At the edge of our town was a heavily guarded bui...
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Categories:
greenish, fantasy, fear, moon,
Form: Free verse
Almond seed
...Seeing the almond seed,
How it had grown.
What it looked at her?
A little leg…
She would feel surprised.
Before just an object and now?
It was a living being!
Either it had always been a livin...
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Categories:
greenish, art,
Form: Free verse
National Poetry Month
...River, Heart, Gaze, Eclipse, Lush, Tender
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A gentle flowing RIVER
reflecting an ECLIPSED moon
no tides, no pretended pull,
unlike influenced ocean
flows TEN...
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Categories:
greenish, nature,
Form: Free verse
Royalty in the What Not Shelf
...Doohickey thought she should wear the crown
Gizmo huffed off in her greenish gown
Dofunny Dingus laughed and got crazy sick
Steam on the What-not-shelf was truly thick....
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Categories:
greenish, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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