Dune Perdue
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Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
Gnaws at sand buried tree toes gnarled, spit polished
Hourglass chamber sug...
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Categories:
leap out, animal, beach, bird, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Scared to death
...As shadows laid where none could go,
The dark sky etched fear in a scrawl,
Making hearts to leap out of sight,
Silhouettes of danger scared all,
A cooly breeze whispered the fright,
Mean...
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Categories:
leap out, dark, death, fear, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Decayed
...As I stand before this old, dilapidated house,
A structure fast decaying and about to crumble,
With its walls painted grey and white,
And the plaster bearing cracks and marks,
Memories l...
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Categories:
leap out, destiny, house, missing,
Form: Free verse
Muffled Whispers
...“Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house,
can you hear the whispering? "
Quote by _Constance La France
Standing before this old, dilapidat...
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Categories:
leap out, age, feelings, house, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Death of Destiny, Part Ii
......It was just after such a cry
that she turned her sad face to him,
said,”It’s not written that you’d come…
What power lets you come within?”
Enktantas just advanced slowly,
a battered sword ...
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Categories:
leap out, adventure, change, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Birthing Day
...My friend said, “Happy Birthing Day!”
I couldn’t help but grin
Because this marks the date in which
My son’s life did begin.
Some memories leap out at me –
I know just what I wore
And the wa...
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Categories:
leap out, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Crappy Mother's Day Minichu
...Son said he’d cook a meal
Relax mum, chill out and take the weight off your feet
It’s a deal!
I smell burning
I leap out of my comfy seat
Churning
Meal burned
Mother’s day trea...
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Categories:
leap out, food, fun, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
April Fool
...The first day of April 2020
and, I’m waiting for someone
anyone
to leap out and shout
“April fool!”
Somehow, though
I already know
that just isn’t going to be
it definitely is April fool’s da...
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Categories:
leap out, dark, satire,
Form: Free verse
Leap Out of Your Self
...Follow a path that is trod by no footsteps
down to a flowing river.
There is a fish in the water
that has swallowed your joy.
Watch it leap, its silver form
diving into the air for no reason a...
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Categories:
leap out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Insomniac
...I lie in bed, almost asleep,
But my mind has other ideas
And begins to mull over
Everything in my life!
Suddenly, I am wide awake.
I turn on my side and fluff my pillow
To get more comfortable....
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Categories:
leap out, humor, sleep,
Form: Free verse
The Night I Died
...The night I died
I was not asleep, this was not a nightmare
my eyes were open as I struggled to wake up
from the deep hole of sleep.
I had sunk into a sinkhole of sleep
that could only end i...
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Categories:
leap out, blessing, creation, evil,
Form: Blank verse
Where Did She Go
...Used to be when I was really me
She would leap out alive
so full of life and cockiness
the time I really thrived
Then told it's not allowed anymore
it's no good for your health
so back inside...
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Categories:
leap out, change, feelings, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Ho-Oponopono
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Ho’oponopono
forgiveness a virtue
virtue an attribute
requiring identity
needing healing
thus choosing
forgiveness
as a tool
no matter
Ho’oponopono forgiveness ...
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Categories:
leap out, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Age
...Age is just a number we have all said,
But we all keep a lower number in our heads,
Age makes the old want a nap in bed,
While the young want to leap out of bed.
We are told to act our age,
An...
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Categories:
leap out, age,
Form: Rhyme
The Word Cliche
...I am stuck in a cliche
the narrative recurs
I need to leap out
As I am in loops...
The sentences just re-happen
the words repeat
Oh I have to portray these beautiful phenomenas I encounter c...
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Categories:
leap out, how i feel, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
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