Prayer Lifted for my Husband
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Last night I had a worried thought
Come coursing to my mind
Of my husband having car trouble
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Categories:
jaunts, power, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Winter
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Winter
Miracle Man
10/22/2024
Soon our trees
will lose their clothes,
Also old Jack frost
will nip our nose.
A strong north wind
will become the norm,
Bringing with it
our firs...
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Categories:
jaunts, seasons, winter,
Form: Lyric
Red Shoes
...In a whimsical world of witty wonder,
Where laughter lingers, lost not in thunder,
There danced a dandy with a dapper flair,
Sporting red shoes, a vivid vision, rare.
He pranced in patterns,...
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Categories:
jaunts, dance, funny, humorous, red,
Form: Alliteration
Little Shelves in Quiet Minds
...Little shelves in quiet minds
Hold unimagined worlds.
Night-time spurs their playtime jaunts.
By dawn, a tale reshelves.
At times, these tales may reappear
To flirt with daytime ponder.
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Categories:
jaunts, dream, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Of Byron
...Rockstar status known decades ago,
Imagined greatness you alone,
Infused lines to inspire yet unordained,
Dark recesses breathing life unexplained,
A lord born of chance to pursue chosen prose,
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Categories:
jaunts, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Romance As Tragedy, Part Ii
......First off it seemed that her husband
had no been an abusive man,
just a nebbish actually,
it was clear she had worn the pants.
She’d married him for security,
and his needs she’d most ignor...
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Categories:
jaunts, betrayal, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Arson Noir
...An affectatious arsonist announced,
“Big buildings’ burning brilliance brightens best!”
casually cites conflagration counts,
darkly deals destruction, designer-dressed.
Extinguishing each edifi...
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Categories:
jaunts, fire,
Form: Sonnet
Thanks For the Challenge's Chance
...Kelogb 10 (6-7-6)
For Emmanuel Adédayò Òjéládé.
When for all the long lines,
Eyes don't catch up the design
Of all I had combined
And in little shy glance,
The eyes travel in spr...
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Categories:
jaunts, 1st grade, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
I Married Myself
...I married myself,
The female version,
With quirks and misgivings,
Sacred cows and aversions,
And yet, we are different,
Not completely consistent,
And our familiar bad habits,
Are way too pers...
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Categories:
jaunts, analogy, appreciation, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Three a M
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Three A M
August 15, 2020
By Tom
I have an identity only when I’m awake,
in slumber, i journey as an unknown.
My jaunts sometime end long before daybreak,
when dreams fall prey to ...
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Categories:
jaunts, angst, dream, morning, weather,
Form: Lyric
Inheritance From My Father
...Inheritance from My Father
It is with grateful heart I traverse this way,
For the respects I wish to pay,
To my Daddy who lived his whole life with attitude,
But it is for those aspects of him ...
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Categories:
jaunts, appreciation, family, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Rain Shadow of My Heart
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Rain Shadow of the Heart
Standing under my umbrella
with rain kisses.
On our hearts and faces, they
did amply fall.
Whatever happened to that you
and me, after all?
The dinne...
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Categories:
jaunts, goodbye, love, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
First Musings of 2020
...The final kismet of three hundred sixty five days
Which charmed me in time’s remembering jaunts ,
As radiant eyes winked ,
and lacy veils blew
Beyond late dusk as old tower gongs pealed,...
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Categories:
jaunts, inspirational, new year,
Form: Free verse
80s 2 Dancing In Time With God
...Hey There
Giving so much
I can't see you
There
with your husband4
That should be me
We tested the waters and the great sea
found a sailor.
Nearby I fixed the dog: he'll never love again
L...
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Categories:
jaunts, depression,
Form: Free verse
Asteria
...Have you not seen the keeper of my dreams?
The moon of wishes combs her chestnut hair,
And bounding from the brightest of its beams,
She casts her net of stardu...
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Categories:
jaunts, beauty, dream, fantasy, metaphor,
Form: Quintain (English)
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