Boston Ivy
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POTD~
In the misery of a paler grey nightfall
she blinks like citrine glazed along walls,
Ivy of Boston flaunts her shimmer without guilt
as palette of amber claims her lustrous glides
slit...
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Categories:
herbage, passion, winter,
Form: Free verse
Sanctuary
..."The forest is a sanctuary where you can grow to be you," ... by the Poet.
The passing of a torch, when Spring was announced,
was noted in the melting quarter of winter memories, as a su...
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Categories:
herbage, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Free verse
Heaven
...I can often (sometimes) almost
feel it.
It’s not a place, not anywhere,
not heaven sent or given.
Sometimes it’s a soft sticky fig,
on the back of the tongue
or a color that should be painted...
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Categories:
herbage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
December Scene
...the scotch pine looks white
herbage seem to poke at him ---
snow nostalgia
08 December 2022
Winter Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...
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Categories:
herbage, nature, seasons, winter,
Form: Haiku
Maze
...I found a chateau lawn once, teeming with charm
A MAZE it was, growing cluttered yet it had an air
Of much lushness TURNING the space into a hued mantle;
Where PATHS of herbage, blue...
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Categories:
herbage, garden, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Lifeboat the Hippo's Tale
...Part 4
Now by the end of the day, it was easy to say,
The Hippo was gracious and kind.
With no desire to offend, it seemed a genuine friend
And they were glad not to leave it behind.
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Categories:
herbage, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only th...
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Categories:
herbage, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
The Turnip and the Cabbage
...A Turnip and a Cabbage
are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar
as they hadn't any feet.
Before you judge and criticize,
I beg your minds to wander.
To take a m...
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Categories:
herbage, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My Sweet Home
...Home,my sweet home,
Where blue tranquil rapids flow,
Its meanders run in symphonic rhythms ;
To the left and right aside,
It holds my village firm;
Yellow is ripen glow of lavish harvest;
Land ...
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Categories:
herbage, beautiful, beauty, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Blank verse
Summer's Soliloquies
...Sun's flames burn through hazy, midday heat
Raising fierce winds -- dusty, choking ...
Fiery orb descending toward horizon's lair
~ Ghostly white moon rises, painted on low-ceilinged sky
Bare...
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Categories:
herbage, farewell, nature, sad, summer,
Form: Free verse
Skying An Oar
...Long time ago, in lonesome youth shine
In a wonder state of boykind
Making paper pontoons
Skying an oar, in a creek lagoon
On a yummy, afternoon
In swampy, draconian, water spittoon
The artsy...
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Categories:
herbage, youth,
Form: Free verse
Harvest of a Season
...Sweet the bounty imbuing the meadow
With ripened fruits, herbage, and oats,
And children raise their baskets under lush trees
To pick pluck nectar of mid-autumn’s regale...
While older folks r...
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Categories:
herbage, blessing, celebration, thanks,
Form: I do not know?
Lost In Dark Silent
...Lost In Dark Silent
When I look back the silent darkness
I had left in the deep woods
a long ago
where I had planted few seeds
of my memories to grow
but I found those seeds grown
with thorn...
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Categories:
herbage, emotions, nature, spiritual, ,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bones Lay
...Back age of brute creation 'n herbage beholders
Hominoids have stayed for bodiless years
Jumbled brains on battered shoulders
With rash of lacking space frontiers
On brief planet lay all the bo...
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Categories:
herbage, death,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Burrow
...My heart lays within the burrow.
In the stillness of this place there is beauty, its envelopes the terrain.
Softness is embodied in the rich colors of both shade and hue.
Lush emerald her...
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Categories:
herbage, animal, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Ballade
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