Purple Dreams in Other Realms
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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess...
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Categories:
happenchance, adventure, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Other
Rose Beauty
...Life
armed with the fates
of futility
besieges.
So be it with the rose,
her beauty asway,
pushed around
by breezy happenchance,
powerless to stop
her petals
to wi...
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Categories:
happenchance, beauty, betrayal, death, earth,
Form: Free verse
The Day After
...The day after
This evening saddens me, right now Thailand
celebrates the New Year with fireworks
pathetic lives for a moment lit up by artificial stars
In three hours, time, it is our turn to s...
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Categories:
happenchance, allusion, betrayal, birth,
Form: Sonnet
I Wonder What You Look Like Now
...I reflect on what you look like now!
You were beauteous when I saw you last.
What precious gifts did time endow?
All those years of tranquil absence
As you slumbered away the time somehow.
I w...
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Categories:
happenchance, absence, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Battle For Kohima
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For a toss goes zen,
when we face madmen.
With no option left,
our lethal stroke’s deft.
Harbour no ill will
for blood that did spill,
in as was ordained ~
our heart is unstai...
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Categories:
happenchance, war,
Form: Jueju
Near Death Experience
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Moment of death, life force sucked out,
that it’s the end, we have no doubt,
being offered no time to think,
for it’s over, in but a blink.
Having survived this happenchance,
what’s ...
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Categories:
happenchance, death,
Form: Lay
Practising the Presence
...Mindfully observing thoughts rise and subside
For our attention they hanker
If we feed them not and in the vast void glide
Far distanced from noisy clanker
We offer no anchor for rancour
Goin...
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Categories:
happenchance, heart, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
Evening Magic
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By Mystic Rose and Robert James Liguori
When the sun goes down on this hillbilly town
I will meet you there where the stars never frown
Down in the valley where the trees breathe eas...
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Categories:
happenchance, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Evening Magic
...(A COLLABORATION WITH ROBERT LIGUORI )
When the sun goes down on this hillbilly town
I will meet you there where the stars never frown
Down in the valley where the trees breathe ea...
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Categories:
happenchance, romance,
Form: Rhyme
The Mindful Eye
...Feeling desire pulse imperceptible
stealthily growing its roots in our mind,
we view happenchance undesirable,
freeing ourself here and now from its bind,
by simply choosing not to be aligned.
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Categories:
happenchance, muse,
Form: Dizain
When Daffodils Dance
...Mother nature never fails to steal the show
As the seasons come and seasons go
Spring doth bring on fine romance
Joy in happenchance
Where on hills
Dance
Daffodils
Summer’s charmed ...
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Categories:
happenchance, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
When We Were Gods
...A murmuring heart, on its own.
From the start, feeling alone.
A pounding heart, not far away,
Even torn apart; love that does not sway.
That moment, happenchance, when mortals collide,
When li...
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Categories:
happenchance, break up, relationship, remember,
Form: Rhyme
The House Dark
...Kismet yanks the rug I'm standing,
Shocked it barely sways my stance.
Should have been a back-side landing,
Unexpected happenchance.
Anger follows loud reporting.
As for me, my silence ho...
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Categories:
happenchance, allusion, analogy, break up,
Form: Rhyme
When It Comes To Ageing
...When it Comes to Aging
By happenchance of birth---
Circumstances of life withstanding---
We enter into life, with genes marking
Our attributes of features obtaining
See my Mother and her ancestors
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Categories:
happenchance, introspection, life, father, father,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Date In Space
...Twas it happenchance or divine intervention
that brought us to this place, this time
this plane of purest desire we share….
Just north of the moon, past the fourth star
crossing over Or...
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Categories:
happenchance, fantasy, love, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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