OLUPONNA; MY LAND AND TERRAIN
...OLUPONNA: MY LAND AND TERRAIN.
Oh my mother land; wealthy in soil
To my grip held so highten; not soiled
So cultured and nurtured in legendary
To a land whose worth is never lost in form
Wi...
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Categories:
hazels, africa, confidence, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Hazels In Winter
...HAZELS in WINTER
While Winter yet prevails scarce changing state
With sun a slanted elevation gleam
Across the land the trees in patience wait
Their preparation moves in ways unseen
Yet Haze...
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Categories:
hazels, nature,
Form: Sonnet
I Believe In God
...I do believe that God made all things right.
Let us rejoice for all is bright since God
In kindness made this world in harmony.
For look, is not the sea so full of food?
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Categories:
hazels, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Art of Falling
...Art of falling atop roses,
Bedroom scented with vanilla...
Come Sweetheart! That’s for later,
Dear! Romance me with terms of
Endearment, sudden
Fear of falling in love all over again.
Gaiety of...
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Categories:
hazels, sensual,
Form: Abecedarian
The Party Line Eavesdropping Contest
...When I was small they had what was called a party line
Eavesdropping was fun and games
We would hear Mable and Hazel talking about
Clark Gable who none of us knew
We would sit for hours listeni...
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Categories:
hazels, childhood,
Form: Free verse
To My Love Part 1 Tbc
...Far from having a nascent thought that envelops my rabid self,
Like inside of an accurate Swiss watch that had been given -
A present to presidents and diplomats from the 70’s era,
Memories in the...
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Categories:
hazels, life,
Form: Free verse
Hazel Tree Sonnet
...Hazel Tree Sonnet
My wild subconscious mind has given me
And I would seek to know what it intends
In dream, the seeming of a hazel tree
Please talk to me of hazel trees, my friends
I keened ...
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Categories:
hazels, hope, inspiration, magic, muse,
Form: Sonnet
I Built My World Around Your Dreams
...It was dark
Yet there stood light
We found our way
Into the night
Covered in lace
Yet skin all bare
Struggling without care
For that very gold
The night whispered our names
And then w...
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Categories:
hazels, age, appreciation, life, lost,
Form: Classicism
Midnight Secrets
...Midnight Secrets*
In the dark, I came alive
~tonight
I found my way
~into the light
Camouflage in lace, my skin glisten,
Towards the wind, I listen!
Skin of envy and gold,
My limb...
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Categories:
hazels, relationship, riddle,
Form: Ottava rima
Blue Words
...Blue words cry,
smearing bare
paper walls.
I am only this poem
to share.
Crimson lines
ironed, too perfect,
scratch romantic notions.
Sorrows brew.
Shus...
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Categories:
hazels, feelings, introspection, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Ode To a Planet
...My earth, my mother!
You wrapped your self
In the vesture of selfless eyes
I dub you it divine,
In your comity letter
To the green mountains
And scars in the mug of the ocean
I h...
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Categories:
hazels, beauty, beauty, green,
Form: I do not know?
Hazels Kitchen
...HAZELS KITCHEN
How many meals have we children eaten there?
Although possible to count, it’s vaporized in thin air.
Zilch is not the number and we don’t have a clue,
Eating was foremost but m...
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Categories:
hazels, food, inspirational, mothermom, mom,
Form: Acrostic
Too Far From Perfect
...Seeing the spring flowers
with colors so intense and alive,
makes me praise their Creator even more;
amazed and breathless,
unable to find any imperfection
in all that lies under the infinite sk...
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Categories:
hazels, natureme, spring, me, spring,
Form: Narrative
Hazel Eyes
...I look into her hazel eyes and see everything that lies beneath.
I see all her happiness and all her pain.
The secrets that she shares only with me.
Secrets that bring her both joy and sadness.
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Categories:
hazels, love, me, kiss, me,
Form: I do not know?