a leonine moment
A Leonine Moment (2003)
Yellow lion teeth like petals of love
I picked the green savannah grass,
It had just stopped raining and pearls,
as a glass bead around a cub's neck,
glinted in the sun that had been hiding
behind rain pregnant clouds, thunder
and lightning; far away, I heard
A lion's roar, inconsolable was its loss.
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Categories:
in a moment, abuse, addiction, africa, animal,
Form: ABC
The Heat of the Moment
(Cabin Sunset, summer 2025)
The Heat of the Moment
Settling into our new mountain cabin,
Dogs and humans equally overheated
In the shadeless August afternoon,
The only way to be is naked.
Stuff strewn around
Bed to one side, kitchen the other,
Camp chairs with panting dogs
On an old Persian rug in-between.
Cabin with unfinished interior
Waits for insulation, paneling and flooring,
But in
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Categories:
in a moment, mountains, nostalgia, retirement, summer,
Form: Narrative
A moment
Drenched in rains
The girl returns home
White and black
Sandals are wet too
Pushes back the
wooden shutters
of the closed window
From the box of oxygen
Releases a pink breath
Mild sound falls
on the leaves _
Smiling Gardenia
Leaving the photo
for the album
The time vanishes
into the inexplicable
grey mist
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Categories:
in a moment, emotions, feelings, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Every moment counts
along life's journey
simple joys are the gems
to be stockpiled and amassed
opportunities are simply
bits of freedom to blossom
into time well savoured
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Categories:
in a moment, appreciation, freedom, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
in a moment, color, happiness, life, nature,
Form: Other
Journey on for the Moment
if I could describe your soul it would be
clear mirror shattering forevermore
where pieces are jigsaw puzzles
not fitting, falling under oak table
stuck on persian carpet existing
upside down on another planet
soul shadows broken spiderwebs
hanging on ceilings not existing
another calls himself father holding
elbow skin blowing in a wind
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Categories:
in a moment, allusion, change, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Protesting The Moment
Protesting The Moment
Illuminating the night by the light of a bonfire
Captivating the insight before one’s mind begins to tire
Emigrating out of fright as one’s own government becomes a liar
Abdicating all your rights as they burn your life upon the pyre
Procession of a line for food that western lives refuse to see
Intercession
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Categories:
in a moment, life,
Form: Rhyme
For a moment
For a moment I took pleasure
On the fact that you existed
You were there
Silent
Withdrawn
But wise
Oh so wise
I felt I could talk to you
As if I talked to the moon
And God you could understand.
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Categories:
in a moment, art,
Form: Free verse
Here for the Moment
Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.
They lived out in the hilly country, where orangeish stars could be seen;
And summer seemed to last forever, for days held a predominate sheen.
Noons were filled with happiness laughter, that foreshadowed pink moon.
Life
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Categories:
in a moment, bird, color, fantasy, memory,
Form: Couplet
Passing Through The Moment
Passing Through The Moment
Aesthetic communion for an artist in a ghetto
Prosthetic student union that is only there for the power show
Anaesthetic ex-communion for a doctor who does not want to go
Prophetic graceful union of the ones who seem to always know
Consummate reliance on another person for your relief
Don’t abdicate defiance
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Categories:
in a moment, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Movement is of moment'
Never still the mind of God.' continual motion
Growth of purpose' rythem of love, making..'
man and woman' comes from above.' Growth of grass
Errosion of cliffs.' Waves upon oceons work
To shift..Grit in oyster, kernel growth.' Denotes
Wisdom and tears..Indeed; my oath.! Wind that moves
Emotions to change; sadness to elation such
A range.. Snail or Eagle slow or fleet Earth
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Categories:
in a moment, allegory, appreciation, bible, endurance,
Form: Didactic
Any given moment, any given time
grief is a complicated feeling; it doesn’t always hold the
loss of something. But in some cases, in my case, it’s the quiet ache of dread, the feeling that encapsulates quiet certainty of impending loss, something that means more to you than anything, that in the here and now, is still with you.
Yes, you may
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Categories:
in a moment, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Moment No 1 Point Five
A smile can change everything
And everything has worn the same outfit since Adam and Eve started sewing designer fig leaves
Which leads me to the conclusion…No, you’re not my person but for 3 seconds it felt a 10-year anniversary
A moment framed in my better day’s gallery
Knowing we were both thinking something similar means everything
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Categories:
in a moment, beautiful, cute love, muse,
Form: Prose
In a moment suspended between the silent beats of time and infinity
In a moment suspended between the silent beats of time and infinity,
The miracle of love settled like a mist, almost untouchable, yet so tangible,
It was better than any dream drawn on the sky of a starless night,
It was like a precious object you could lift, gaze at, and keep in memory,
We found ourselves on the
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Categories:
in a moment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Perfect Moment, Created By Joe And Mystic
Never had I heard a flutter so clear!
nor more distinct than the settle of midnight wings;
Soft gray wings spreading, fanning
coming to gentle fold,
soon to follow, a nightingale's song,
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Categories:
in a moment, appreciation, beautiful, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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