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Language of the Heart(Verse 1)
In the tapestry of life, we find our thread,
Woven through the darkness, a brighter path we tread.
With hands united, across the land we start,
Speaking words of healing, in the language of the heart.
(Chorus)
Oh, the...
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Categories:
community, humanity, language, love,
Form: Ballad
Letter to AfricaOh how I long to see ancestral home
It’s majestic mountains and valley roams
The vast seas and grassy lands
From rivers deep to desert sands
I am an unwilling transplant
Brought as a seed within man woman
Transported against their...
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Categories:
language, absence, africa, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
SWANSSlowly floating down the
stream, the waterfowl glides
seamlessly along the
surface of the lake, its
soft, silky plumage, and
slender form, gracefully
sailing into the sun.
...
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Categories:
language, bird, nature, october,
Form: Pleiades
DOOLEY'S DEVIL'S DELIGHTDarling Dolly liked to dawdle
down past Dooley’s Deli.
Darling Dolly didn’t dabble
in Dooley’s Devil’s Delight.
Devil’s Delight, a donut dessert,
didn’t do it for Dolly.
Darling Dolly didn’t delight
in Dooley’s donut dessert.
So Darling Dolly dawdled home
without Dooley’s...
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Categories:
language, children, food, nursery rhyme,
Form: Alliteration
THE CIRCUSThe trio – Jackal, Fangas, and Goblin,
saw a gruesome circus in Doblin.
Fangas whined and cried,
Goblin turned bug-eyed,
so Jackal whisked them home a squabblin’.
...
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Categories:
language, children, friend, halloween, magic,
Form: Limerick
COURTSHIP DANCEIridescent Birds-of-Paradise
do their extravagant mating dance.
Wondrous spectacle before my eyes
as they pirouette and prance.
...
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Categories:
language, bird, dance, nature,
Form: Quatrain
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLSA blanket of turquoise and sapphire blue;
cacophonous gray and white plumage sail.
Skimming along the sea’s light foamy hue;
a blanket of turquoise and sapphire blue.
Beauty in flight, soaring the sky’s vast view;
they flock together on a...
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Categories:
language, bird, flying, imagery, nature,
Form: Triolet
Life is a gardenbirth and death bookend our lives
how we spent intervening years at our disposal
might be shaped along the way
by our experiences
what importance we place on each incident
thoughts we encountered
through each word
are united with our fellow travellers
or...
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Categories:
language, analogy, birth, death, flower,
Form: Suzette Prime
Categories:
art, emotions, language,
Form: Senryu
Categories:
emotions, language, passion,
Form: Than-Bauk
Dodo TalkWords are born and some change, adapt, some wilt;
Norse drips into French seeps into English, hidden treasures under silt.
Blendings swirl meanings and semantics shift our daily use;
once uttered by tongue, electric touch now lets language...
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Verses of LoveAs much as anything,
we are our words --
increments of twists and
turns, joys~ inevitable burns
(one's acrobat of verbal
written being)
As much as anything
what we think we should
feel -- important less right
and wrong~
At...
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Categories:
inspirational, language, love, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Love is a clock, so mine is timelessLove,
like a clock, its heartbeat in the second hand,
A rush to unlock the heart's embrace.
I,
circle endlessly, returning to where I start.
The minute hand,
searching twelvefold for a heart's perfect time.
Sweethearts,
counted on fingers mastered by numbers.
The...
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Categories:
language, analogy, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Love is a clock, so mine is timelessLove,
like a clock, its heartbeat in the second hand,
A rush to unlock the heart's embrace.
I,
circle endlessly, returning to where I start.
The minute hand,
searching twelvefold for a heart's perfect time.
Sweethearts,
counted on fingers mastered by numbers.
The...
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Categories:
language, analogy, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
'Bare Bones'
The expression ‘bare bones’ bothers
me because of what it implies
about all sorts of other bones, that
they...
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Categories:
flying, language, money,
Form: Free verse
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