Faridah
...Faridah a name that blings I goose bumps
The fairest of them all my constant love
Free in spirit and soul she beloved of soul
My soul in her presence ignites in ecstasy
She is tall dark and lov...
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Categories:
liltingly, appreciation, black love, crush,
Form: Free verse
The Author of Forever's Serenade
...When the author of forever sang
his serenade,
‘twas longing in a virgin’s heart,
the strings he played.
So liltingly and stirringly
did words cascade,
they conjured scent of rose bouquets...
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Categories:
liltingly, romance,
Form: Lyric
Summertime Love
...Spring blossom’s fine and fine’s monsoon season,
But summertime love’s like a passing shower,
E’en autumn, if my heart’s free from frisson,
No, summertime love’s not my fond flower;
Wearing the l...
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Categories:
liltingly, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Forgottens Remembered
...she liltingly spun smiling and singing
"You are my sunshine" waving for us
to join in
the pan dripped dancing tears on
the hot black stove where they sizzled and died
"My on...
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Categories:
liltingly, memory,
Form: Free verse
From Darkness To Light
...From darkness to light?
Vigilante; the hero in a mask I use as my daily improv.
I, inanimate to my true self, the once high demon Retiarii
Liltingly I glide through the massive crowd unseen like...
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Categories:
liltingly, conflict, corruption, death, emotions,
Form: Acrostic
Kokopelli
...Listen! There’s a melody wafting sweetly,
Tempting blossoms liltingly. Watch enchantment!
Kokopelli’s bringing the beauty nearer.
Magical flautist!
For the Sapphic Stanza Num...
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Categories:
liltingly, spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza
In Flight
...I’m confined
Weighted
By this body of clay
I cannot soar
On the wings of my dreams
Or from lofty heights
Swoop down
To dip my hands in ocean streams
And then claim again
My place in the sky
Confine...
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Categories:
liltingly, song,
Form: Free verse
Dear Rosebud
...Dear Rosebud:
The morning dew gently caresses you
like the faint whisper of a young child's kiss.
Your limbs yearningly reach for the sun
as if awaiting a long lost lover's embrace.
Only a pair of va...
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Categories:
liltingly, daughter, life,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Just One More Mystic Mile and Or Smile
...JUST ONE MORE MYSTIC MILE AND OR SMILE
Something worthwhile
something to beguile me
And whittle time away wistfully
And blissfully
Someone wily to surreptitiously sneak up behind me
And be kind to m...
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Categories:
liltingly, angst, woman, me,
Form: Free verse
Grandma Aesop's Apples - Overture
...My dearest one -
you oft traversed my well tended garden.
A panacea I personally created
to massage your ailing id.
A garden similar to the wondrous patchworks
found in Eden.
A recreational p...
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Categories:
liltingly, lifeme, grandmother, me,
Form: Free verse
Whispered Wonders
...The brisk Autumn breeze
crisply smiles and leaves
inviting seasonal ascendance.
Past dark hollowed eaves
her departing breath weaves
a path for Winter's wondrous entrance.
Courtly canyons kow...
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Categories:
liltingly, seasonsautumn,
Form: Rhyme
About Me
...My life is like that of a commonplace horse
that stays where they’ve put her all day;
she lives very much like the others, of course,
accepting her fate, eating hay!
At times she is plowing ( f...
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Categories:
liltingly, imagination,
Form: Bio