Accessory Is Necessary
...I’d had to simply voice it elsewhere
And didn’t forget to on it swear:
Much of what is now necessary
Is the headache of Accessory…
By far an astonishing puzzle,
To clothes compared: the ones ...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, education, humanity, imagination, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Daybreak
...(To Armstrong)
Remember those days when mists of uncertainty
Shrouded our timid hearts.
We never left the hearthstead,
The fire of which burned from our silent prayers
And our hopes blossomed in...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, cheer up, confidence, cry,
Form: Free verse
Unabashed
...
When I let one loose in the elevator
The monk adjacent profusely apologised
The thunder, he affirmed, gift of the Creator
Inhaling it deeply would see divine light realised
Though...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Visiting a Sunflower Farm
...Their grinning heads cover the fields for acres
A sea of happy mini suns, welcoming us to Kansas.
We stare, amazed, having no idea this was possible.
There are photo moments and we take them all.
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Categories:
kerchiefs, flower,
Form: Narrative
To Die For
...Branches frosted in ice
Wonderland magic waiting in awe to thaw
Pink blossoms ready to surpass hibernation
Spring in their timeless steps
Candle wax waned
The Little Drummer boy b...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Box
...Sunny outside,
simply the sun,
yet men look at it
then sing.
I do not know the sun,
I know only an angel’s melody
and the fiery exhortation
of the last breath.
I know how to shout ’til dawn...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, allegory, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Family Rim, Stream and Team
...Senior citizens
Crated in old people’s homes
Discarded denizens
Wrinkled forms
Pivotal during heyday
Generating national growth
Beyond payday
Bestowing cloth
On backs of offspring
Pouri...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, poems,
Form: Free verse
You Are the One
...l.
Opening the closet of narra doors, I sweep through
organza skirts and gemmed ringlets; my hair
ruffling aimlessly upon scalloped kerchiefs
smelling decade - old hyacinth, Mom’s fa...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, longing, mother daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Gypsy Dance of Life
...Last night I watched in silence
At the end of the road in forest deep
I hid amongst the trees watching in awe
As gypsies dance while others sleep
Under the violet hue of evening sky
Haloed by evening...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, adventure, fantasy, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dreams
...Some dreams of my youth
Couldn’t come with me
To this strange world
It was not for them
They lay scattered along the road
Or hanging from the twigs of trees
Like little kerchiefs
I went awa...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, life
Form: Free verse
Daddy Had Girls
...August sun,
Leaves smell of heat,
You can hear the holly hocks turn to seed.
The pile of trimmed twigs snap as they dry.
Sister paints the cross pieces
The top of the board
The flat
And the ...
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Categories:
kerchiefs, adventure, childhood, family, father,
Form: Free verse