The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
...VI.
We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
fi...
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Categories:
latticework, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form: Lyric
When You Are Old and Unhurried
...The day passes, same routine unhurried
While this body spirals of old age snail.
Energy movements and fade unworried
Point disembarkation, a blithe inhale.
Living forever at one time did grace....
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Categories:
latticework, change,
Form: Rhyme
Uniqual
...Throughout the adventures of creation,
We've seen diversion and parity abound.
Allowing rhyme and reason to co-exist peacefully,
While we all rummage through the lost and found.
The...
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Categories:
latticework, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
latticework, dark,
Form: Free verse
Percipital Fallout
...Raindrops are not tear drops this should be fun Falling drops of rain are like a hamburger bun
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Categories:
latticework, humorous, irony, joy, rain,
Form: Couplet
In the twilight valleys where shadows weave endless tapestries
...In the twilight valleys where shadows weave endless tapestries,
Where the breath of dusk embroiders the horizon in shades of evening,
A hermit dreams, his window an eternal portal flung wide open,
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Categories:
latticework, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Silken Splendor of the Lovely Dame
...Luminous lids lift, languidly unveiling vistas of vibrant verse, as lavish laughter lines lips that lure with lyricism.
Sultry syllables swirl, a sweet serenade that saturates the senses, summonin...
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Categories:
latticework, love, lust,
Form: Alliteration
Dark Etched by Light
...A latticework of frozen sky
sharply defines iced over arboreal statues,
sleeping tree-figures
now dressed in glittering white.
The fields are sunken in chill mists,
magpies forage through the ...
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Categories:
latticework, poetry,
Form: Free verse
As They Fall
...basking in spring with robin songs
verdant leaves in gorgeous green
splendour swings in silken sarongs
summer retreats in change of scene.
among fleeting clouds flowers fade
fluttering branch...
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Categories:
latticework, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Garden Trimmings
...Nature's Spring palette and sweet nectar
of bright comfort bathing in the brilliant sunshine. Quote _ by Poet
A vision is the crimson queen rose
newly sprung its unique velvet ...
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Categories:
latticework, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Eiffel Tower-Italian Sestet
...Beauty of Paris rising high
Such massive latticework is seen
At night a golden color's view
Three levels given public's try
Restaurants on levels are keen
This tower's sight could be for you...
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Categories:
latticework, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 15
...We briefly meet the Mandan Chief Big White
in the village center where the animals are sacraficed,
couples wed, and disputes are dealt with,
he is a massive, and portly man
and is wearing a headd...
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Categories:
latticework, adventure,
Form: Epic
The Vicarious Tightrope
...A new landscape presents itself upon waking.
Places that were dreams drift outward.
Past becomes present; stars earth; flight, a grounded stride.
I might assess these thoughts as if I have a cho...
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Categories:
latticework, dream, identity, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Easter Hunt
...All signs of spring have arrived among the fields of yellow daisies and tall grass
Basking in glory the wading birds with its white silken body and long legs
Cattails burst tall with delight from t...
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Categories:
latticework, children, daffodils, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Tea Party
...Tea Party
Bright early morning
Courtyard opens to the clear blue unclouded sky
Mourning dove with their cheerful cooing
Lush, crisp, green, grassy, lawn,
Garden flourishes w...
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Categories:
latticework, child, daffodils, garden, girl,
Form: Free verse
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