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The Kite
Am I the only one to think
that a kite is such a sad thing?

Flimsy...frail...
never really free,
forever tied to a string

Yes, it can soar indeed,
so high, with the wind taking it places,
almost making it forget,
just enjoying...

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Categories: sijo, allegory, life, me, sad, thank you,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ides of March
*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteousness,
escapism from existence ... edges evacuation,

Birth ere...

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Categories: celebration, character, conflict, fate, history, march, men,
Form: Sijo
Weaving Forms- A Parody
Weaving Forms

Abc, Abecedarian, acrostic, alliteration alexandrine
  Salaam, sehraa senyru, sestina, sijo, shape, sonnet
      The list of forms of writing poesy is hopelessly endless
      ...

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Categories: sijo, allusion, humor, hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
the LIQUIDITY of LIES
    THE LIQUIDITY OF LIES

To be precise It is now exactly half past never
And see, I’ve been trying to tell you that for years
The last will always come first as second seeks...

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Categories: angst, planet, daffodils,
Form: Sijo
CERTIFIED CURSE'S ASSISTENT
          CERTIFIED CURSE’S ASSISTANT 
(with all due respect to Ms. Jane and Ms. LaNette---the only two deities I pray to.  And I 
ain’t telling you...

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Categories: healthold, me, old, places,
Form: Sijo



Premium Member That's Close Enough
*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.

That's Close Enough

Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a work of art,
At spans of reckoning, ... outlandish...

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Categories: allusion, change, character, identity, image, perspective, psychological,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Pollyanna
Quotes from the 1960 movie, Pollyanna:

Pollyanna: Why don't you come out of the front door like normal people?
Jimmy: They won't let us. I can come out anytime I want with my tree.
Pollyanna: You could also...

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Categories: children, innocence, meaningful,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Chimed Upper Room
*Image of Hallmark Channel by Giphy.

Chimed Upper Room

Chimed new day shines...eagerly corrects an upper room looks,
An attic improving rapidly...promotes roams of diligence,
Lacks found bordered leathered album...trapped topped a cornered desk.

Cutting edge mounts an Everest...Grand Canyon...

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Categories: happy, memory, sad,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Heart Truth
*Image of Two Hearts Drawn On Sand by Heart Images.

Heart Truth

Harmony resonates...fulfills an abandoned chamber, 
albeit, interims vigilantly monitored...by one's self,
seconds fleet onward...persuading one's lips to rise gladly.

Gleeful eyes revisit....a hosts of crossing memories,
each and...

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Categories: heart, truth,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE
MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE

Barren rice fields, hungry heart; heels cracking dry ¬ thirsty soul part.
Face awaiting, every season, knotted aching old ~ new reasons...
Love! Oh Love! Written by God, crawl on us strengthen our grit.

Clanging cymbals,...

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Categories: character, feelings, inspiration, life, love,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Monsters of the Sea
*Image of Whirlpool by Giphy.

Monsters of the Sea

A contracted seafarer...concerning no servile rank, 
kept e'er involved watch...away from menial daily tasks top deck,
while steadfast wary of...the diligent taskmaster's whip.

A dawn swift gust...brushes the ship from...

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Categories: mythology,
Form: Sijo
why
Why?
Why didn’t you tell me?
Why didn’t you tell me you felt that way?
I could’ve helped.
I could’ve done something.
I could’ve done something to help prevent you from making the dumbest decision you ever made.
You. Promised.
You promised...

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Categories: care, celebration, character, class, clothes, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Sijo
Intuitions
If you come today suddenly my silence would then smile
And the noise in my heart would be heard saying softly to you
"I love you" without my tongue telling you in waste of words.

I have pondered...

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Categories: romance, heart, heart, love, may,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member An Elysian Field
Within a lush verdant meadow, meanders a lazy river
Where wildflowers bloom beneath the warm breath of the sun
They sway upon a gypsy wind on this early morning in June

Stems of purple heather rise above the...

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Categories: garden, paradise,
Form: Sijo
Alienation Mystery
God invisible, inaccessible in dark and light,
Total space of universe, and still presence in mystery masked like night
Where every part of me fintely in infinite you is traced

To whatever mountain height my fragile form found...

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Categories: lost love, religion, me, me, universe,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-Sabi

A stunning beauty seen with moles on the cheek from a distance
If be near, like spaceman, we find dry lowland area of dark rock,
Shadows in holes where meteors hit, left craters, the Sun can’t hit.

She...

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Categories: beauty,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Evening's Genius
Dramatic moon glows high above the emerald mountains
Shimmering dreams of celestial romance fade to soft sparkles
Pierces the darkness in glorious rays of hopeful beams

Starlight whispers fall across the bleached branches of autumn
Once glistening with scarlet,...

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Categories: autumn, moon, night, sky, stars,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member FLORIDA NATURE
FLORIDA NATURE

Sky-high beech trees tower my head; big parasol to earthly grounds
Sun smiles gold drenching blue skies; warm breeze whish swaying luscious leaves
Nature tickles round brown eyes, blushing rose hugs Eden

Mistrels' tweet beckon ears to...

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Categories: america, animal, earth, environment, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member HOT SUMMER LOVE
Clear eyes stargaze on sun-kissed days ~ Barley autumn, bosoms ablaze.
Warm breeze brush bathing heavens, rainbow hues fusing chase and tease
Whispers ~ touch spirit lips, rising heat cocoons blushing nymph.

Kites sky flight tickling blue clouds,...

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Categories: feelings, imagery, inspiration, seasons, summer, sun, sweet,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Cling
a brown and curling maple leave hangs suspended mid-air
in the clearing by the lake, transfixed by the view and kindness 
woven within the web it watches the rain fall

within the transparent lace-like web, it curls...

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Categories: adventure,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Being Unseen
*Image of Airy & Feather provided by Pixabay.

Being Unseen
Poetic Form: Sijo

Tryst edged ... Aurora whisper serendipitous saffrons,
e'er forging balms beamish strands to aerate crown's expanse, whilst bestrewn
lissome mists waltzes amongst errant gasp caught in rapture.

An...

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Categories: creation, extended metaphor, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Sijo
berryblue goodbyes FREE CEE
BERRY BLUE GOODBYES

I slammed my eyes shut creating day into night
I didn’t care to see cruelty bared eye to eye
I couldn’t watch me lose such heavenly delight
Because even hardened junkies sometimes must cry

The darkness I...

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Categories: angst, blue, cry, me,
Form: Sijo
Droplets of Heaven
OLD POEM: GRAY SKY FALLS (SIJO)

Paralyzed sunshine of the day, gray kissed skyscrapers in faint
Blurry dance stuck in the air as the dew pervades some occlusions
Day sketched gloom in beauty behind the droplets of breezy...

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Categories: sijo, imagination, rain, thanksgiving, sky, universe,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Baby Angels
 
There are two little angels in heaven that wait for me,
and in this earthly realm, I bring white roses to their tomb and weep;
in my last gasp-  my angels will come fluttering to...

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Categories: angel,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Time Passages
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                            ...

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Categories: time,
Form: Sijo