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...At first his anger was hotter than July
Or, rather, he was plundered by the weight of
Sorrow —heavier than the ice of January;
The kind of stolid ice that thickened Niagara Falls
Like frozen soup...
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Categories: lissome, business, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Bamboo

...Grant me rest under your lissome stems
Let me hide from the raindrops — shiny globules
That drip with tropical hauteur,
Rain that harms the ribs with cold rebukes.
Welcome me within your greenish...
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Categories: lissome, africa, environment, life,
Form: Ode



Speed Limits

...They pose with the austere stares of
Loving, friendly ghosts —tall, gaunt and lissome,
With big, rounded head.
Draped in weathered robes of care,
They are the only guardian spirits we see.
They ...
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Categories: lissome, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLADY

...The lady had her day
Of bright lips and mystery
In summer she was Muskeg
Each winter a monsoon
It was as monet
Her refusal to weep

And had my courtship
Proven less lissome
If I had not cast...
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Categories: lissome, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Thought Parades

...An escapade from thought parades
A blockade of rouge descent
An oeillade craved
Rueful indignance
A room full of insects

A jocose allusion
A lissome illusion
A querulous reality
I weep wher...
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Categories: lissome, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIn Her Shadow

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In her shadow, I feel the presence of a doubt – while in His presence, I know that I’ve discovered the light of One who casts all shadows out. - by poet

In her shadow, I see the pain,
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Categories: lissome, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY

...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
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daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
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ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn...
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Categories: lissome, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberThe Breath Of Summer: Saturnian I

...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...

'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis 
poised t...
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Categories: lissome, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification

Silken Splendor of the Lovely Dame

...Luminous lids lift, languidly unveiling vistas of vibrant verse, as lavish laughter lines lips that lure with lyricism.

Sultry syllables swirl, a sweet serenade that saturates the senses, summonin...
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Categories: lissome, love, lust,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberVirile Explorer

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He was virile voyager called Stanley,
with slurping tongue he could burn cold alley.
         In journey from top downward
         his machismo got devoured,
he found lustful way in lissome ...
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Categories: lissome, humorous, lust,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberIncarnate

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Your flushing face winsome in the wild wind, 
the ebony strands of hair insolent, flutter unbridled.
Some swirl squally, threading the gushing gale,
on the ivory forehead their lattice capture...
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Categories: lissome, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGift Of God

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The dazzling dawn lights up my heart’s horizon, 
spreads the sensuous spectrum of luring longing
on the gorgeous blooming garden flushed with my love,
swathing the facsimile of your florid fac...
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Categories: lissome, analogy, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpring's Love Song

..."Happiness? The color of it must be spring green." - Frances Mayes

Soft sun embraces souls, sentimental,
Shimmering stars sing through the silence,
While a heavy moon glows gently,
Gra...
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Categories: lissome, spring,
Form: Etheree

Premium MemberRain Song

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Densest fog hovers over the mountains,
Blue ridges reformed, now steely,
Gray as the moment just before dawn,
When silence bleeds her dreams
Through the still, cool light
Graceful as the sigh,...
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Categories: lissome, appreciation, mountains, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSongs of Nature COS No 11: ABAB

...Per drawn orphic sight, a ringed rainbow moon.
Feather swims in a vagrant squall, plummets,
burden bobbing outstretched like some mushroom,
spirals expel rippled waves pirouettes.
Aurora whisper ...
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Categories: lissome, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet

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