love of nature vs nature of love
...t Is So Easy to Forget
How much the world is trying
To love you.
The cat,
Rude at 3 a.m.,
Kneads her affection into your ribs
With every purr.
Your mother,
Tired but present,
Listens lon...
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Categories:
kneads, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Kneading Autumn's Yearning
...[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]
Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air
Her wor...
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Categories:
kneads, adventure, autumn, desire, emotions,
Form: Narrative
A Spine Within A Heart
...A spine within a heart
My heart aches within
Something pushing and poking in
Poking out
Knowing out
Trapped in
Happiness is within trying to seep out
Through the little cracks of grey, ...
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Categories:
kneads, death, emotions, heart, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Fragmented Past
...Although it may not be enjoyable.
An it seemed unimportant to many.
Beginning a chore which it's objective
seems far-fetched and greedy.
Inspired by the events
on some distant shore.
Something...
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Categories:
kneads, betrayal, culture, film, kiss,
Form: Bio
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
...(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes
a threadbare fading s...
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Categories:
kneads, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
cats
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kitty knowledge knocks
knitting keepsake kindness keys
kisses kneads karma
March 12th 2024
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Categories:
kneads, cat, creation, family, pets,
Form: Haiku
Humoring of the Ashes
...Elephants will head for higher ground
before a Sunami makes landfall.
The flocks will sing desperate songs
and fly quickly from devilish fires.
While donning his three-piece silky suit
man-un...
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Categories:
kneads, 1st grade, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Truffle Trolls
...People reveal the contents of their heart.
drip by painful drip.
It takes courage to tell the world what ails them.
What hurt them-stomped them down.
How they are in the process of healing.
Clim...
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Categories:
kneads, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Is the Master Potter
...Jesus is the Master Potter
By Franklin Price
09/14/2023
Jesus, is the master potter
We, the followers His Clay
He molds us into shining lamps
Reconstructing day by day
He lays His hands up...
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Categories:
kneads, celebration, christian, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 Finis
...A Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms...
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Categories:
kneads, love,
Form: Rhyme
Katie McShane
...There's a girl from Dutch Country
Who kneads this heart inside of me
She's beautiful, a treat to see
A singing angel, that is she
A true companion to a T
I see compatibility
My dreams of he...
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Categories:
kneads, for her, hope, i
Form: Rhyme
Ho Xuan Huong English Translations from the Vietnamese
...Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called the BEST Vietnamese poet, a proto-feminist, and "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society."
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Categories:
kneads, animal, body, heart, nature,
Form: Free verse
Hungry For Change In Chicago
...Dear Blabby,
I seem to be in a real pickle in regard to my wife Candy and my eighteen-year-old son Cal. He works in my bakery after school. The problem is, because he never knea...
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Categories:
kneads, humor,
Form: Free verse
Brave Heart
...
"Brave Heart"
O what Leonine love
could sway
iron clad heart
to move closer
reflection
watches stealth like
under cover
kneads softly
some kind need
fr...
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Categories:
kneads, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Caviar Is Not Bread
...Who knows what caviar is,
does not even know the price of bread...
Caviar is only sturgeon
raised to the pinnacles!
Caviar is not poetry,
nor will it ever be...
There are those who think it's ...
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Categories:
kneads, allusion, extended metaphor, irony,
Form: Political Verse
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