adieu
...
we …
sat here once …
so long ago it’s a dream -
a mirage of another life,
like a desert’s distant, fiery fog …
we were brine,
I, salt to your water -
churning surf that broke upon another -
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Categories:
heathered, analogy, friendship love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Irish Holiday
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Limericks written for St. Patrick's Day
Celebrate the Irish in ev'ry way
It's said in tales of old
Leprechauns buried gold
At the rainbow's end it was meant to stay
It's a day for ...
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Categories:
heathered, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
Jessamyn's Song
...Jessamyn's Song (circa age 14-16)
by Michael R. Burch
16
There are meadows heathered with thoughts of you,
where the honeysuckle winds
in fragrant, tangled vines
down to the water's edge.
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Categories:
heathered, earth, life, song, sun,
Form: Rhyme
A Shepherd's Day
...A Shepherd's Day by Suzanne Alexander (SA)
Wee, from East then West!
Seen one side then Next.
Feel a beautiful day, start is laid
Sjoe, from sting of Ray.This said,
Baa, from Ewe - distinct ...
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Categories:
heathered, 12th grade, emotions, imagery,
Form: Ballad
Stroke the Heart, Ignite the Flame
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12/12/2023
STROKE THE HEART, IGNITE THE FLAME
I went on a heathered journey to his heart.
So passionately anxious was I t...
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Categories:
heathered, happiness, imagery, love, passion,
Form: Couplet
Yon Bonnie Banks
...In yonder glen where thistles bloom,
'Midst heathered hills and meadows groom.
A lark ascends with lilting cheer,
Its song a ballad sweet and clear.
The haggis grazes on the brae,
As daylight ...
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Categories:
heathered, blessing, color, green, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Lifetime
...A rotted old house deep in the South
Was where I learned to shut my mouth
And keep my stockings high and my hems low
And take care of babies and learn to sew
And the very first thing I stitched...
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Categories:
heathered, body, faith, farm, pain,
Form: Rhyme
I Yearn To Wander
...My friends are happy gleaning fields of grain
but I'd rather read about France or Spain.
I travel through the pages of a book,
remembering each journey that I took.
I long to see more of the wh...
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Categories:
heathered, dream, girl, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Banks of Loch Lomond
...I long to traipse across lavender heathered hills
and look across the North Sea as a winter wind chills.
Again, to dwell in a cottage, nestled in a green glen
or traverse Scotland's burns, I yearn...
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Categories:
heathered, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Adieu
...we …
sat here once …
so long ago it’s a dream -
a mirage of another life,
like a desert’s distant, fiery fog …
we were brine,
I, salt to your water -
churning surf that broke upon another -
t...
...
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Categories:
heathered, imagery, nostalgia, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Dot To Dot
...I'll begin my dot-to-dot journey at first light
when dawn paints the sky after darkness of night.
Dots like stars on the horizon will be pearlescent hues
all interlaced with shades of ...
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Categories:
heathered, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Renewal
...I grump, I slump, I scowl, I'm in a mood
To judge, nitpick and be abruptly rude.
Skies heavy under clouds of concrete gray
Lost are the pinks and lavenders of May.
This winter has worn down m...
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Categories:
heathered, analogy, nature, rain, sun,
Form: Couplet
Scottish Hearts Are Singing
...I love your heathered highlands,
steep cliffs and rugged islands,
hedges and gardens under
rainclouds of grey.
Old steeples rise above
those small rural towns I love;
your hillsides of sunny ye...
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Categories:
heathered, patriotic,
Form: Lyric
Flowering Fields
...Floral Fantasies
forsythia fields
fragrant flowering foxgloves ~
flourishing fern fronds
Grandiflora
garden gatherings
glorious garde...
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Categories:
heathered, flower, garden,
Form: Alliteration
Shantelle's Hideaway
...From the stony fields with lavender rising
White butterflies alight atop each bouquet
While speckled ladybugs frolic to aroma's flower
Shantelle's hideaway spreads before the gaze
Within her na...
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Categories:
heathered, allegory,
Form: Free verse
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