My Favorite Soup
...When I was young, Mom mixed tomato juice
with beans and ground beef; I would misconstrue
this liquidy deliciousness as soup.
Later I was told chili is a stew!
That’s because most people make it...
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Categories:
liquidy, food,
Form: Rhyme
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of Appundicitis
...A double sonnet in which the great detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, alternately deduce the cause of Sherlock’s latest malady…
Part the first
Sherlock could not ded...
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Categories:
liquidy, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Lava Liquidy
...lava oozes slow
caused of the grading landscape
fast downhill and flat
2019 September 17...
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Categories:
liquidy, earth, nature,
Form: Haiku
African Spring
...African Spring
The rain has settled
liquidy soil
ingested to wait
the blessing of Spring
nature renewed
mystical blooms
surround the veldt
in Africa
endeared by Sun
Clivia
yellow s...
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Categories:
liquidy, africa,
Form: Free verse
Fly High
...Fly high
Ruthless cry
and your voice
once liquidy then dry
Fortunate the ones
that escaped
but we still hanging
above the grace
And days they long
for the nights where
all goes wrong
An...
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Categories:
liquidy, emotions, flying, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Moon
...A white smudged dot on the misty sky peering onto the place where they live
the big and small ones with four legs, two legs, and the single-legged green ones
they have a myriad of motor skills and ...
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Categories:
liquidy, art, creation, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Personification
Blossoms and Bubbles
...Off to the garden to share in a tea
Sweet Juliana has just become three
Billowy dress sprayed with cottonballs pink
Tiny white shoes, for a doll you would think
She sings to the blossoms in c...
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Categories:
liquidy, childhood, garden,
Form: Sonnet
Mama the Nurse
...When I was a small child I caught
every germ that came my way.
It is because of Mama’s nursing
that I lived to write about it.
I succumbed to every illness
in which I came in contact.
One o...
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Categories:
liquidy, childhood, motherchild, mom, care,
Form: Free verse
A Different Perspective
...Spencer just turned 7 the other day.
My wife and I adopted Spencer after many years of trying to add to our family the
old fashioned way; then, after a few years of trying to add to our family t...
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Categories:
liquidy, introspection, sonfather, son, family,
Form: Narrative