ONE CELLO AND THREE VIOLINS
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We attended a candle-lit concert…with joy and wonder already built in.
It was the music of Adele…performed by 1 cello and 3 violins.
For a little while that evening…if was our aim…our intention...
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Categories:
lip gloss, inspiration, music,
Form: Rhyme
Painted Truths A Makeup Story
...She wakes, bare as morning light,
A face unframed, soft in sight.
Mascara lifts, lashes rise,
Eyeliner sharpens her guarded eyes.
Blusher blooms, cheeks come alive,
Contours shape what can’t s...
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Categories:
lip gloss, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse
My Dove, you are always on my mind
...My Dove, she flies above it all,
In the face of despair she smiles,
Solving all the problems she can.
My Dove, she has deep chocolate hair,
With fair skin,
And eyes like a maze.
My Dove, s...
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Categories:
lip gloss, crush, cute, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Zipper
...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines,
the rattle of small vertebrae
and delicate teeth.
A woman learns to ride them, feels
the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail.
A man lifts tugging fingers,
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Categories:
lip gloss, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sweet and Sappy
...Sweet and sappy, as strawberries,
yet the green leaf’s pulled
from the tongue, and
teaches one a smile set
in the bulk and brazen
of the hefty sour’n sweet
fruitiness obtained from the C
of th...
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Categories:
lip gloss, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Changing Colors
...A pale sunlight
only partly had dressed the windowpane.
The lemons in the kitchen
looked like limes.
The metal pots and pans
did not gleam
but were pastel-washed
with a dewy lip-gloss.
Th...
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Categories:
lip gloss, poetry,
Form: Free verse
pictures
...It’s Friday afternoon. Anna, Lisa, Leong and I are sitting around our common room - sagging actually - after a long day.
“I need a break,” I said, “now’s the time - today, this day - it's been a lo...
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Categories:
lip gloss, angst, art, creation, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Life In Color
...I want to be
A part
Of your safe haven
Where I fill in
The chair next to you
Surrounded by your family
I want to see
How your face lights up
Making jokes and telling stories from ...
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Categories:
lip gloss, beautiful, boyfriend, color, desire,
Form: Free verse
The Makeup of Her Soul
...My favorite makeup is her smile,
the lip gloss of a soul at ease,
mascara of her grace and style,
the rouge of blushing when I tease.
My favorite jewelry: her eyes,
gold flecks in starburst br...
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Categories:
lip gloss, beauty, love,
Form: Rhyme
Maybe One Day Soon
...i will see you, my love
soon
i will see you in a windless country, in a thoughtless world,
with swords, we”ll cut off all roads in the air, from the earth
with our eyes, we”ll dress them up in f...
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Categories:
lip gloss, america, anger, books, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Sorry, We'Re Closed
...A good night's sleep won’t erase scars.
Open the covers, let the morning in.
Purple behind your eyelids.
Sleep with some paralysis.
Lighten up, buttercup!
New day, fresh start.
Icicles on the...
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Categories:
lip gloss, angst, assonance, confusion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
As Her Shadow Catches Peripheral
...a head that could not resist the turn
as eyelash lifts to reveal its joy
and from that squinted smirk of broken lip gloss
Time twisting one leg behind the other
ushers to continue
the promise on...
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Categories:
lip gloss, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Kissing Lips
...At long last the desolate drought of parched loneliness exploded
Soaked in insatiable appetites the flood gates bathed their desire
Like starved lonely survivors they glued their deserted cravi...
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Categories:
lip gloss, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Time To Cook the Rolls
...Time To Cook the Rolls
“Honey, turn on the oven to 350; the movie is starting!”
Soupy Sales is kicking back with June Taylor at Studio 50.
He is flirting with her leggy dancers as they feed
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Categories:
lip gloss, angst,
Form: Free verse
Kilo
...Forever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts va...
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Categories:
lip gloss, 11th grade,
Form: Alexandrine
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