For Feeling Never Appealing
...hard to read each pun
which will happen upon us
once upon a time
when he was wishing
while line on water swishing
he had been fishing
while at Westminster
really had been sinister
was suc...
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Categories:
happen upon, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
LIGHT AND DARKNESS
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It’s wonderful when you have a thought in your head
that you’re all set to put into a poem or a letter…
and then you happen upon a person,
like Marianne Williamson…who has already said it bette...
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Categories:
happen upon, love,
Form: Rhyme
I Wandered Lonely As a Leaf That Falls
...Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I heard a far bird's calls
Magic I'd mis...
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Categories:
happen upon, appreciation, autumn, beauty, dance,
Form: Lyric
My Dog's Dreaded Foe
...He sits and scratches
With endless scratching
They cover him in patches
Hope they aren’t catching
He struggles with them
Longing to destroy their eggs
They darken and condemn
Creeping a...
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Categories:
happen upon, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Roses Red
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of all the flowers
it is the rose that I love best
and the most beautiful to me
is the color red
and in my journals red roses
I have pressed
and in my last gasp, my dears
let m...
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Categories:
happen upon, flower,
Form: Verse
Nymphs At Play
...It is not easy to happen upon them,
Pure nymphs in their natural beauty.
It happened to me only once when
I was resting beneath a red sunset maple,
As the summer hear began to soar.
A stone t...
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Categories:
happen upon, dance, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse
Unleash
..."Bring forth the witch! Bind her to the stake!
It has been my wish, to trample evil for God's sake."
Teztelian verbalism, another veiled devil's play,
Actors in cassocks, in God's name harvesting ...
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Categories:
happen upon, conflict, earth,
Form: Ballad
A Couple In White
...On a remote part of the beach we walk as the sun was bowing to the night
we happened upon a young couple having their picture taken…
A young couple dressed in white.
We smiled as we held each ot...
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Categories:
happen upon, love,
Form: Rhyme
Gentle Nature
...Soft light of sunlight mists across the smoky gray
Of the blue ridges where colors of emerald pine
Surface in the distance, creating a brilliant waltz
Of cloudless dreams which signal to my spirit...
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Categories:
happen upon, feelings, flower, muse, nature,
Form: Free verse
Mere Minutes
...in full coat of red
he postures
shakin'
his feathers
in full view
there's an air about the evening
moon braising the horizon
eyes burning with lust
he listen clo...
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Categories:
happen upon, love,
Form: Free verse
Gala Stewart -You Were My First Love But I Never Told Ya
..."Oftentimes, sometimes I think of you. I drive by the street where you used to live. I don't know now if you're alive or not. Blessings to you I give. I don't know if you're married or a widow. All ...
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Categories:
happen upon, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Narrative
A Walk In the Woods
..."Walking trough the woods,
I let my mind wander all I could
Hoping the shackles of a busy world will fall away,
To lighten my step when this burden gives way
To allow the beauty of the fores...
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Categories:
happen upon, blessing, hope, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Illustrations
...sounds
of pity
surface
as
moods ripple
&epitaphs
happen upon
the legacies
of life..
..
questions flee
in a mask
of be
belief
as issues
melt away
as shadows
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Categories:
happen upon, inspirational, poems,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Long Poem From a Brief Encounter
...I saw him before I saw her…(I believe she was holding the door.)
There was a far away look in his eyes as he shuffled his feet on the floor.
I felt a twinge of sorrow for him as he slowly labored...
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Categories:
happen upon, age, love,
Form: Verse
Why Old Doll Faces Seem So Creepy
...If you happen upon a stack of photos taken in Victorian times,
Look carefully for a post-mortem picture – they command a premium price.
Technically, everyone in those photos is dead – today
But if...
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Categories:
happen upon, angst, bereavement, family,
Form: Rhyme
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