Long Soak up Poems
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The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
soak up, africa,
Form:
Ode
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable
Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...
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Categories:
soak up, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
A Taste of My Varied Genres
A Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
soak up, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
soak up, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest Win
If you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
soak up, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Yoke of Life
I received so many wonderful gifts
I'm thankful and oh so grateful
I had a good amount of uplifting lifts
Life is so abundant and beautiful
Spill it all to the floor some more
I heard you shut the...
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Categories:
soak up, angst, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Redemption
It seems every time I begin to let the light out that hides inside of me
The world breaks me down and reminds me this some things are meant to be
But now...
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Categories:
soak up, inspiration,
Form:
Couplet
An Old Fashioned Love
I was a dedicated, expert arborist, bringing joy and comfort to shady spaces,
As mountains give cool joy to blooms, in butterscotch afternoon's last traces.
A love of trees grew in youth, when climbing our oak, four...
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Categories:
soak up, family, fantasy, green, life, love, nature, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Reflections On My 58th Birthday
Reflections of the day of my Birth
On this 58th year I reflect on what is before me and, also behind me
How did I get this far with more behind me than there is ahead of...
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Categories:
soak up, age,
Form:
Free verse
terracotta
there is a crack in everything that’s where the light gets in
or eternal waters to soak up sorrow and flood fertile grounds
solid meaningful foundations
at least and at last he did not submerge his pain in...
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Categories:
soak up, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
The Grey Man
There were images the grey man could not see
Did not want to see, in all probability
Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores
No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy frames
Where...
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Categories:
soak up, life, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Revelation of Modern Slow Times Vs Young
How does it feel to feel and be recalled?
...
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Categories:
soak up, appreciation, caregiving, change, dedication, endurance, grandparents, youth,
Form:
Ballad
Winnowing Winds
No winds are winnowing enough
To put a quill back in the hands of the dead poet
Or confidence back in the trachea of the strangled speaker
In me
Because no words are as vile
As no words at all
Where...
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Categories:
soak up, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
soak up, bird,
Form:
Shape
Observing Love
Observer,
Though impartial, I can never be as
I try to see you through others eyes.
Today you will be just a man—
Past his youth, not yet elderly,
Though you show signs of aging.
Your dark hair, now sports silver,
Or...
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Categories:
soak up, for him, love, relationship,
Form:
Romanticism
Starlight
I had lately been in the career doldrums, for I was an aspiring, eager actress,
Like lavish summer blossoming rampantly, in wild, passionate distractedness.
I'd enjoyed a few triumphant successes, still, they were few and far between,
Like...
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Categories:
soak up, career, confidence, fantasy, happiness, imagery, nature, success,
Form:
Couplet
Torquay at last
2025.4.18
Easter Friday, a public holiday,
All the shops was closed so as M Central,
There was no piano.
It was fine by me,
I just had to find an alternative.
Yes, I was going to this place,
My first trip of...
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Categories:
soak up, for her, friendship, travel,
Form:
Free verse
My Birthplace As a Poem
I was was born in Ottawa, Canada and have lived here all my life and have
never wanted to leave. It is a beautiful city rich in historic architecture.
It is located where two rivers...
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Categories:
soak up, city, home,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Life On a Pause
Destiny never announces to us our place of arrival
The streets, countries or cities
Sometimes our journey is by circumstance
Other times it is divine
At thirty eight years old
I was still looking for Mr direction
I was still in...
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Categories:
soak up, inspirational, introspection, life, beautiful, me, people, beautiful,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
New Season 19
Slowly spring unfolded.The trees all abud now and througout the forest floor
Daffodils had sprung up it seemed overnight.Looking over at Arlis holding his daughter with a look of total besotted love,her mother warmly looking on...
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Categories:
soak up, adventure, celebration,
Form:
Narrative
Fishing With Dad
Early in the morn, just before the sun would rise
The scent of bacon, thick enough to burn my eyes
Crept under my door, across the sheets and into my nose
The aroma I smelt every morning before...
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Categories:
soak up, father, fish,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Dance Ramblings
Awww… These are Happy Dance Ramblings… When you get someone to listen… You just have to go for it… Bet you didn’t know that I’m like super doper man... Put me behind a computer and...
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Categories:
soak up, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination, happy, me, old,
Form:
Light Verse
Growing Up With People Who Never Grew Up
When my friends went through struggles
I would always help them out
extending my hand out in troubles
as I could when they were down
when the world around them crumbled
I was the one...
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Categories:
soak up, life, people,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hotel
Each year we drive to the south of Spain to soak up the sun's warm rays
But we like to maintain a leisurely pace, so it takes us two full days
Which means we stay at Hotel-and-Go,...
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Categories:
soak up, confusion, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Gemini Garden-Silent One
Written: June 09, 2024 For Ink Empress Contest
“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” - Silent One
...
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Categories:
soak up, appreciation, silence,
Form:
Free verse