Beauty Iambic Pentameter Poems

Where tender shoots each day birth new mercies,
cultured in your word, my young spirit grows.

From sun up, to down, your Spirit rises,
I find myself humbled...

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I walked across the sparkling morning dew.
A path where once uncommon beauty grew.
A bench we shared, woeful, lone, and broken, 
echoes a promise that we...

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"We credit nature for Earth's lovely art-
     whose brush is led by God right from the start."
    ...

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"Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. 
They take their time and wander on this 
their only chance to soar.”
      ...

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To count, uphold the beauty of the form,
Or to depart, defying honored norms?
To contact ground with regular impacts
Or syncopate one's way off beaten tracks.
The bard,...

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Sending Love to My Papa

Underneath his multiple dark layers,
He was desperately seeking the light.
Wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing his betrayers, 
Kinsman who disregarded his cruel...

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7/25/21. Hope Cycle

Grief, like Love, is a seasonal thing.
It comes and seems to last forever,
Driving its tentacles deeper
Than it seems possible to penetrate;
Forcing the oozing...

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ado the realms that I have plunged with phrase
          they have no shape - no bound'ries...

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I sit, gazing at my bountiful fields;
Cattle graze and meander upon the grass;
Flapping, a shadowy figure soars near;
He perches on the railing of my porch,
still...

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God My Wife Composed and Did Design

God my wife composed and did design
By Him made and became my valentine
Wonderful morning had been breaking
My breath away...

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A beauty is a thing erupt desire
Lustrous of thousand ants arise
A fallen leaf no commands need from trunk
The water breath no practice of sink

The bawdy...

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The dried leafs, After all Beauty gone
Some mature roots immature roots all gone
Like mundane world I Ooze before I lift
The faded dancing leaf on Breeze...

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They are so pleasant to our eyes, 
The flowers, nature’s great creation. 
Though their apparel is so nice, 
Their blossom has a short duration. 

But...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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A walk in solitude is sometimes best
     to weigh my thoughts in nature's open-air
       ...

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