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Premium Member Lil' Mama
My Lil' Mama

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Categories: jetty, beautiful, birthday, cinderella, sister,
Form: Rhyme



Sase
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it seems, all these...

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Categories: jetty, friendship,
Form: Prose
Graphic Grapes Ooh
Ooh a scented grape graphic. Now that's wisdom. Contained a logical pattern in a juice cup. Heron haven heaping. Wisdomstic of a Judas flaw. Consealed in Sanskrit. Heavenly heaping cream on a very large bun....

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Categories: jetty, baby,
Form: I do not know?
Old Styles Old Smiles
One fine blustering autumn day an old man puts on his boots pulls up his trousers off he goes,
If anyone wondered where he was going it was to a forest a good long walk it...

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Categories: jetty, nature, day, old, autumn, day, fish, horse,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Morn's Alive With Skylarks Singing
The morn's alive with skylarks singing

o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,

the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.

A sudden shower would see me running

fancy free between the rain drops,

I cried 'Excelsior!' and...

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Categories: jetty, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Gullah Angel
“Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”- - Longfellow

Charleston,...

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Categories: jetty, love, heart, old, heart, old, time,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 14b
Chapter 14b (King Ptolemy the Second)

With a travel bag to carry
Their belongings and essentials
And they rode by wheel-borne carriage 
On the road down to the harbour 
 
There they stepped aboard the vessel
That would take...

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Categories: jetty, adventure, africa, history, inspirational, myth, nature, voyage,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 11f
Chapter 11 The Island Kingdom (f, continued...)

Near the north-most cape they passed, there
Lay the kingdom’s foremost city
By the name of Cannabarro
Here was found the royal palace

Of Ptolemy the Second.
In our time this city has the...

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Categories: jetty, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form: Narrative
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.

I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The pain and the terror.
I’ve visited heaven,
And...

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Categories: jetty, brother, child, childhood, heart, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in the vessel!
That was now...

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Categories: jetty, adventure, africa, animal, children, mythology, sea, voyage,
Form: Narrative
Flat Rocks
“Where are you going?” Teddy asked, breaking in our conversation,
between Bulldog, ‘Newy’ and myself and noticed with his observation,
that the words of Phillip Island had been mentioned by us three,
so he gathered that we’re fishing,...

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Categories: jetty, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 12c
Chapter 12 c The fireflower (cont.)

When at last they had descended 
Back down to the forest clearing 
Rosy sidled up to Lisa
Yielded up the flowering branches
 
Now they had secured the fire flowers, 
Now achieved the day's...

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Categories: jetty, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature,
Form: Narrative
An Autumn Walk
One fine, blustering, autumn day an old gentleman walks from his home,
If anyone wondered where he was going he was on his way to a forest,
The old gentleman walked at a leisurely pace stopping now...

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Categories: jetty, nature, day, old, autumn, autumn, day, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Autumn Walk In Autumn Years
One fine, blustering, autumn day an old gentleman walks from his home,
If anyone wondered where he was going he was on his way to a forest,
The old gentleman walked at a leisurely pace stopping now...

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Categories: jetty, nostalgia, day, old, autumn, autumn, day, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Morning Soars With Skylarks Singing Repost
The morning soars with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and...

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Categories: jetty, writing,
Form: Verse
The Morn's Alive With Skylarks Singing
The morn's alive with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and...

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Categories: jetty, adventure, write,
Form: Verse
The Morning Rings With Skylarks Singing
...inspired by 'Poem In October' by Dylan Thomas


The morning rings with skylarks singing,
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free...

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Categories: jetty, on writing and words, happy, happy, joy,
Form: Verse
Mornings Shrill With Skylarks Singing
Mornings shrill with skylarks singing 
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture, 
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer. 
A sudden shower would see me running 
fancy free between the rain drops,...

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Categories: jetty, celebration, children, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Morning Soars With Skylarks Singing
The morning soars with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and...

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Categories: jetty, inspirational, joy, me,
Form: Verse
Glimpse
GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As it remembers its cringes of final fear when it
Jumped into...

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Categories: jetty, age, allegory, angst, feelings, growth, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Diary of a Child In Trinidad
I remember the land of drums I was born
  bedded beneath great hanging nets;
          the sound of the conch and the horn.
My blue suitcase filled...

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Categories: jetty, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Blind Views
I stare at the world through slats in the blind
Which are partly obscuring the dazzle at times
There's nothing particular to spot there today
As even the birds seem to have all flown away

But once in a...

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Categories: jetty, life, poems,
Form: Rhyme
mystery ship
The Mystery ship
I have read about things like people from March
with dinner-plate eyes and long, thin bodies
If these people are among us, why aren't normal
like Elon Musk, he is smart and will be as well
for...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jetty, absence, beach, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Old Dan
Quiet save for a morning glory’s cue 
Daylight decks the sky cerulean blue 
Sunday and like the hues of color wheels 
Old Man Dan hunts for all his fishing creels 

The rye grass cradles tiny...

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© Alan Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jetty, funny, inspirational, natureold, red, boat, fishing, morning,
Form: Rhyme
A Tear For Kanade
This happens all the time,
The water ripples far from my mind,
I know not, yet know yet again;
the water ripples, is this my sign?

If I walk away, will I sink?
If a wish comes, is it a...

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© Me Me  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jetty, angel, cry, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things