Sweet Love
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Steal the colors of yesterday
from the song,
whimsical as the heart
who hears the sky’s indigo pain
sighing, revealing the hues
softest blues…
invite the warmth of a sapphire...
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Categories:
honeysuckled, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
The Death of the Muse
...She was a pretty muse
As far as muses go
He said she had about her
An incandescent glow
There was a certain mischief
He saw there in her eyes
And though he couldn’t touch her
He’d tasted paradise
S...
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Categories:
honeysuckled, muse,
Form: Quatrain
Days of Love In Flushing: Anticipation
...(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante
Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho sweet bite is heaven. A song
of ho...
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Categories:
honeysuckled, history, introspection, political, romance,
Form: Terza Rima
Where I'M From
...I am from my daddy's drunken heart, beating so fast as though flung from a
furious circle of women who are welcoming the men back from the hunt.
I am from my mother's matted eyes. My mother, a ...
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Categories:
honeysuckled, black african american, family,
Form: Prose Poetry