In the realm of night within my mind, where moonlight drips like wax
...In the realm of night within my mind, where moonlight drips like wax,
I lose myself among old memories, shrouded in mist,
dancing at the edge of an abyss, do not come too close to me,
for my heart...
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Categories:
lacework, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rose Meadow
...My mind wanders into an idyllic realm
Pristine rosebuds are waiting for sunshine
Within the zen of a dawning magenta meadow
In the midst of our stressful, cheerful lives
At the moon's...
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Categories:
lacework, analogy, appreciation, moon, rose,
Form: Free verse
A Stroll Down Paris City's Wet Streets
...A stroll down Paris city's wet streets.
So, romantic as the Eiffel Tower comes to view.
Vendors line up selling their wares out of carts.
Some shouting, "one euro, one euro only.
The aroma and ...
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Categories:
lacework, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Soul of Chaos
...My soul is torn in two,
in this tangled web of chaos,
trapped in this tomb's spiders lacework
in anguish and despair.
Dare I run,
hide in shadowed alleys?
If, ...
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Categories:
lacework, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Potted
...She marks another birthday
by planting a flowering annual in a pot,
a forget-me-not for her forgetful mind.
Nowadays she primes herself
using visuals to clarify memories.
If at dawn, a pale mo...
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Categories:
lacework, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For Time
...Our boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May
Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike still hunt from shallows
Before the Milfoil ...
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Categories:
lacework, father son, fish, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Gran's Place
...Gracious old stone homes, lofty rooms full of nooks and crannies
Snoe-white linen and antimacassars embroidered by our grannies
Cool wide verandahs, wrought-iron lacework draped with wisteria
Old ...
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Categories:
lacework, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Intimation of Mortality
...Tiny misshapen meringues, puffs of cloud, float
Like lacework across the green and brown land
Far beneath. In the distance, they are a little
Bigger, yet still not the towering fortresses of hom...
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Categories:
lacework, africa, farm, fear, future,
Form: Verse
Forest Love
...FOREST LOVE
As a melody felt in its first notes,
I caught the perfume of her soul pouring
Through the lacework of snow-covered branches.
The beats of my heart played a measure
Amon...
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Categories:
lacework, love, music,
Form: Imagism
Twinkle Twinkle
...At first the mind empty of words,
Filled with a silence never heard.
An idea thickens and takes shape,
An echo through eternity will make.
From an alphabet soup of the mind,
Into fair words of a...
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Categories:
lacework, poetry,
Form: Verse
Three Doors
...I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an entrance to adventure
and inspir...
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Categories:
lacework, metaphor,
Form: Prose
In My ''Dreamy'' Spring Garden
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Ajuga, will be a must, a blue beauty that blows in the wind.
Bellflowers, charming and faithful and lovely, of course I must have
Candy Tufts from gardens of long gone, enchanting. And mother...
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Categories:
lacework, daffodils, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Eyes
...Eyes
The neuronal lacework of my brain,
house of the many mansions of my mind,
is home to the ghosts of things past;
secretive phantoms who live in the dark spaces,
and hide when I look wi...
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Categories:
lacework, anxiety, fear, imagery, lost
Form: Blank verse
A Touch of Moonlight
...Wherever the moonlight touches
Meadow or oft tread dale
Little, grey rabbits and birds
Each morning tell the tale
Of how, during the long night
The land took on a softer shade,
And ...
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Categories:
lacework, fantasy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Haven of Order
...
In this tangled web of chaos,
trying to untangle my being
of this spider's lacework;
if my soul will just assent
to a haven of order.
11/2/2014...
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Categories:
lacework, freedom, hope,
Form: Light Verse
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