For long ago a poet passed
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While strolling by the lavender
her smile kept its place,
as lovely as a butterfly
afloat upon her face
She skipped as to a melody
that played about her mind,
in harmony with springtime days
she always seemed to find
With hair a flow of summer breeze,
spun gold and woven vine,
like Chardonnay from Maconnais,
a tasteful choice in wine
Beyond the field, neath skies
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Categories:
long ago, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I told you long ago that this land called Romania
I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under Ceau?escu,
but they are slowly retreating to the quiet pensions and to the Cold Park of fleeting shadows.
Those who follow
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Categories:
long ago, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I told you long ago that this land called Romania has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams
I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under Ceau?escu,
but they are slowly retreating to the quiet pensions and to the Cold Park of fleeting shadows.
Those who follow
...
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Categories:
long ago, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
iPhones, iPads and iPods
Once upon a time, in the early years
before I walked and talked,
a cell phone at my ears…
before Instagram or Pinterest or Facebook
strived to overtake my very mind,
sometimes, I felt like my heart had been forsook
leaving me troubled, on the edge of life’s shadows
forgiven by God, even though I’d often mistook
darkness for light, wrong for
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Categories:
long ago, christian, forgiveness, friendship, god,
Form: Rhyme
It Was A Christmas Of Long Ago
It was a Christmas of oh! long ago
pine trees were dappled with frozen snow
it was a time when Noels were chimed
alongside ladders of life, still unclimbed
It was a season of pure delightement
without technologies bombardment
a moment of grace a time of quietude
filled with the Spirit of
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Categories:
long ago, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
A Log Cabin of Long Ago
In a log cabin out in the Wild West
Many tumultuous years ago
A family cuddled and found sweet rest
By their potbellied wood-burning stove
A tall candle burned bright in the window
The harsh, cold wind beat upon the door
Everyone had done their evening chores
And now had circled the warm wood stove
A golden glow filled the old log
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Categories:
long ago, family, home, hope, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
long ago, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
long ago, lost love,
Form: Than-Bauk
Long ago
He left me
long ago
I couldn't let him
go
I wasn't ready
I made him stop
his body stayed
but he did not.
Jessica
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Categories:
long ago, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Long Ago
It was long ago and far away.
It was so much better than it is today.
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Categories:
long ago, childhood,
Form: Couplet
It wasn't all that long ago, The State of the Union
It wasn't all that long ago when covid
choked the world with it's grasp.
People became anxious, some belligerent, when
asked to merely mask.
While others stock piled toilet paper to
wipe their sorry ass..
A million Americans suffered.
A million Americans passed.
Our health care system became overburdened
with such a daunting task..
People craving answers, turned to the experts to ask.
Our Ex. President
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Categories:
long ago, america, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Long Ago Lovers
Long Ago Lovers
We were where we shouldn't have been
getting things we shouldn't have got.
Delicious! The taste of forbidden fruit
ripe, sweet, dripping and ready to rot.
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Categories:
long ago, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Long ago
They were gone long ago
but I kept my illusions dear
my arms around their ghosts
hugging my own fears
love is a strange flaw
images of what is ideal
we were nothing at all
I now have it clear.
Jessica
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Categories:
long ago, death,
Form: Rhyme
Long ago
Wish I could write a song
Telling you I have loved you for so long.
But the words keep getting stuck in my head
Telling you how much you meant to me
I close my eyes
Time flies
Only thing I see is you
Without you I feel so blue
Though you have been gone all these years
I think of you so starts
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Categories:
long ago, angel, beautiful, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Not Long Ago
I fell flat on my heart
It was scraped on the outside,
and crushed on the inside;
However, neither did I lose
any part of it
nor any blood,
But my spirit;
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Categories:
long ago, heartbroken, life,
Form: Free verse
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