friend
...Can you make a friend— like a craft project?
I know, I hear this parental voice, “just be yourself.”
All of my classes this semester will be in one building, but I’m a control freak, I wanted to ...
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Categories:
limns, friend, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Moonlit Reverie - Part One
...Written: September 10, 2023
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Mounts daydreams in the azure bay.
An eerie sway casts halos in the night sky.
As a sparkl...
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Categories:
limns, analogy, appreciation, confidence, light,
Form: Rhyme
I Am a Pastry Chef
...i am a pastry chef
the constant baker my lot in life
i have shelves filled with life's spices
grains from many different fields
my ovens are in constant heat
doors begging to be opened
that fee...
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Categories:
limns, poets,
Form: Free verse
Whirlpool Wonders
...The Whirlpool Galaxy of grand-design,
a stately spiral with companion small,
once held to be in gravity’s confine
of greater galaxy’s imposing sprawl,
is shown in sharpest image ever caught
to h...
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Categories:
limns, art, earth, image, space,
Form: Sonnet
Brave Grand Daughter
...With my plucky granddaughter, I'm ne'er bored.
She saunters at connate emblems and depth.
And the way the fay sway with her.
Five-year-old darts on slight span.
Brilliant, brittle ...
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Categories:
limns, analogy, childhood, daughter, granddaughter,
Form: Etheree
The Glue That Holds Us To the Canvas
...Like sparks trailing
from a million, billion fireflies,
a single thought limns a trillion suns.
From the first small bonfire
flickering across four million years,
whose light imprints itself
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Categories:
limns, 9th grade, poetry, space,
Form: Free verse
Finding God
...Come with me
into the meadow of the mind
where God is found. Its ambience
is of reflection, and cannot be earned.
It is the ringing in the far-off hills,
never heard above the silen...
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Categories:
limns, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Colorless
...He's gone!
His paintbrush
no longer skims my canvas
perhaps he became bored of staining skin
and chose to sculpt himself
a heart instead
one that limns
lifeless things
He always said...
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Categories:
limns, lost love
Form: Free verse