Tea time
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Aroma of warmth, Aha! A cup of tea
Brewing romance, Yes, it's bittersweet.
Cheers of tranquility soak in solace
Darjeeling dreams, in Assam serene.
Ecstasy infused, our senses relaxed
Family a...
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Categories:
jingling, peace,
Form: Abecedarian
Monorhyme Because they Make me Fresh
...The merry widow’s marvelous mincemeat melody
Was gradually heard around three by the old oak tree
Honestly said Bert, the bumblebee, is this the Grand Prix?
Miraculously, there was a royal red rev...
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Categories:
jingling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Lighted Island
...My lighted island,
Hidden somewhere behind the red rocks,
Somewhere between the jingling of bangles
As I reach out to you.
My lighted island,
Lies behind the rusted walls of the blue city,
Amon...
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Categories:
jingling, blue, color, fish, home,
Form: Free verse
Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...
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Categories:
jingling, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form: Free verse
A Poinsettia
...A poinsettia.
Doesn’t do much.
But when you look at one-
It seems to make a merry jingling sound.
The doorbell rings.
And there are more guests.
Who notice the Christmas tree.
The poinset...
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Categories:
jingling, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Shokpartogai
...My birthplace is Shokpartogai, my golden cradle,
Here I arrived, opening the door to this world wide.
The snowstorm paused, holding its breath inside,
When hear the cry of a baby struggling to sur...
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Categories:
jingling, children,
Form: Ballad
The Animals They Talk
...Venus
Casts a tiny shadow
Upon the ghostly snow
From its candle held by an extended hand
Of a cloaked man
Who trips through the stripped trees
Follows the fresh trail of reindeer
To our seco...
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Categories:
jingling, animal, blessing, christmas, faith,
Form: Free verse
Before Merry Christmas Slumber
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Smelling
Woody, sweet, aroma
Christmas pine tree,
Weaved with Bright blinking lights,
Topped with a starlit top.
Feeling
The Brrr ... chill of the night air
Brrr ... freezing cold of the N...
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Categories:
jingling, children, hope, nursery rhyme,
Form: Free verse
If you can't say something nice
...“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”*
Such a sweet talker
He could talk a buzzard off a meat wagon
The truth lied in his mouth
Waiting…patiently…
Preying on the momen...
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Categories:
jingling, voice,
Form: Free verse
au revoir to autumn
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Autumn reigns in glory but for a season before
winter covers her with a quilt of snow.
~ by poet
au revoir to autumn leaves
tumbling agro...
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Categories:
jingling, autumn, winter,
Form: Jueju
SPECIAL DAY WITH OUR SPECIAL CHILD
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Zooming around the room in wheel chair-moves
our child greets us by his beeping toy’s cheer
allowing pets to bark and meow freely.
Gesturing to hush ...
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Categories:
jingling, appreciation, blessing, child, christian,
Form: Light Verse
Finding My Voice In Neverland - A Musicians Letter From Woodstock
...“I'm ready to go anywhere
I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it”.....Quote by Bob Dylan
I AM A STRANGER HERE without you
I CAN'T E...
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Categories:
jingling, confidence, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Hungry Stones V
...In time when night turned to dawn, I could see,
It all appeared like sheer fantasy.
Light-hearted, I put on my office hat,
And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat
To drive away myself to sink ...
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Categories:
jingling, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
The Hungry Stones III
...In scarce a week the place began to weave
A weird fascination upon me,
Nigh hard to bear, harder still to believe,
I felt as if a dragon from a sea
Was slowly digesting me in tight noose,
A...
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Categories:
jingling, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Glenn Hughes: God of Money
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Welcome to the land of
love, blood, milk and honey
I will begin with the four words; love, blood, milk ...
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Categories:
jingling, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Lyric
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