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...Anida Mann & Baron Ready
April Showers & Wade Rivers
Bertha Saylor & Abel Crews
Bunny Bunns & Wilt Dailey
Burl E Pecker & Phyllis Upman
Candy Cane & Hedon Succor
Chastity B. Lowe & Noah Hoare
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Categories:
highwater, word play,
Form: List
Silver Singles Date
...I finally hit 70, a widow.
Dating, maybe I'll get thrown a bone.
I am tired of waiting and being alone.
A little nervous, I couldn't wait.
I primp, as I look in th...
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Categories:
highwater, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Hell Or Highwater
...Love,
in the end
—betrays us all
(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)...
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Categories:
highwater, betrayal, love,
Form: Free verse
Zen
...I like it when animals are
Snouts in deep,
rummaging through their fur,
cleaning themselves,
abruptly after meal or sleep.
Like an old woman at a sale,
digging through a purse,
come highwa...
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Categories:
highwater, cat, cute love, dog,
Form: Free verse
Genghis Khan
...[ credits to LAURENT YVAN from France who read my poem ]
Launched over ages of primaeval forces
my nomadic ancestry calls out to me
winds howl driven over rolling hills
atop a ridge of rugg...
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Categories:
highwater, character, courage, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
In Remembrance
...If you say a man’s name,
he’s forever alive
Come hell or highwater,
the reasons abide
Losing someone’s greatness,
losing part of our own
Entombed in remembrance
—shared forever alone
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Categories:
highwater, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Children of the Sun
...The lights are out tonight,
But our struggles still ignite
The hay of hope, like hearth
Amidst the cold and dark.
To the temples in the sky,
For Heaven-on-Earth we cry.
We're our own Kingdom ...
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Categories:
highwater, 12th grade, america, anxiety,
Form: Quatern
Hell and Highwater
...May my conscience find rest.
So many thoughts parading around in my head.
I can't do this on my own, but with the one that pulls me through,
surrounded by love, failing to see fear.
God paint...
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Categories:
highwater, dedication, devotion, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?