Marthas Legacy
...Floral loveliness greets chateau guests with gorgeous blossoms
Aroma of these plants bring nature’s best into the stone courtyard
Martha’s legacy has survived the continuum of time
Walter watches ...
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Categories:
guidebooks, angel,
Form: Narrative
Close To the Truth
...Before visiting Dublin town,
I got out the guidebooks
Staring at the crooks and valleys
Studied the terrain, figured out the contour lines
What are you doing? The other travelers asked.
Figuring...
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Categories:
guidebooks, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
We Should Find a London Pub
...We should find a London Pub my travel companion said.
It will be fun!
I was not sure, but I am easy, and we are in London.
Okay, I agreed.
We did not know which one to choose.
So many were lis...
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Categories:
guidebooks, travel,
Form: Prose Poetry
Of Dreams
...Dreams are but fancies of a deeper place
Found in the realm of the mind asleep
Played out like old films in a movie palace
Starring phantoms freed from a dark, dusty keep
What meaning bestowed ...
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Categories:
guidebooks, dance, dark, dream, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Saint Peter's Ants
...They couldn't have chosen a nest-bed more complex, or vaster.
I lauded their industry (toiling through Sunday, no qualms!),
and almost felt guilty for loitering by their pilaster.
My wife was t...
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Categories:
guidebooks, life,
Form: Cinquain
An Insider's Eye
...Touring as a tourist
You can only get so far.
The guidebooks give the highlights
So you know just where they are.
But if you have a cousin
Who's a local, as do I,
You get to see the city
From a real...
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Categories:
guidebooks, travel,
Form: Rhyme
We Will Last Forever
...The pen moves on the paper slowly
To say farewell to thee,
The teachers, the friends and guidebooks
The words that lightly fit the page
Can never fade away
This is why it is not the last of wo...
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Categories:
guidebooks, friendship
Form: Free verse
Traveling Alone
...ah the exhileration of the unknown
traveling alone
just time and time and time
new sites
new countries, food and books
sleeping
no schedule days and weeks on the beach
hotel beds all to myse...
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Categories:
guidebooks, time,
Form: I do not know?
‘nibiru' the Alien
...Micro energies in turmoil,
Random structures, to dissuade
Macro energy forms.
Fused, analyzed
Quantum guidebooks;
Exploits in the theories
Of bonded relativity;
Mass,
Light squares,
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Categories:
guidebooks, faith
Form: Free verse