MIRAGE OF CLARITY Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
...MIRAGE OF CLARITY
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In the side view mirror of the U-Haul,
my familiar world slips away,
the verdant green hills of North Te...
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Categories:
lushness, 12th grade, beauty, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Enchantress Spring
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My eyes to something beautiful are drawn
up past the peaks where clouds of pink are swirled.
I take up my pen seeing her again.
It’s the Enchantress Spring I look upon.
She stands with long hai...
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Categories:
lushness, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Bougainvillea Bedazzle
...cascades of color
creates fragrance enigma
bougainvillea
purple sun pastime
and lushness now has a name
sangria dawn fame
peach noon honey glazed
lends sparkle to cherry blooms
li...
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Categories:
lushness, beauty, color, flower, joy,
Form: Haiku
An Elated Mood
...Calm halts clouds swollen with snow,
they will resent the continuous blow
of the four winds of bitter February;
an unleashed snowstorm is pure fury!
An elated mood rises amid the air of glumnes...
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Categories:
lushness, animal, beauty, bird, february,
Form: Rhyme
Weeping willow
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Written: February 3rd, 2024
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Existence for him,
should be the shivering,
a fantastic cymbal beat,
beaten with a firm stick,
then...
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Categories:
lushness, analogy, appreciation, cry, life,
Form: Free verse
Waltzing Bear
...Written: November 03, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
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I was just a child,
enraged by my inaptitude to act
I dashed home,
surprised,
my...
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Categories:
lushness, analogy, angst, bereavement, dance,
Form: Free verse
Surface Whispers
...Written: August 3rd, 2023
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Through the shallow depths of my soul,
I sail on a wild surface with no control.
Passengers ...
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Categories:
lushness, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Rhyme
Canoeing Memory
...Canoeing Memory
Blood floods my brain with days of youth
As I relax on the sofa and let my mind wander
To happier times when paddling the lake
In our cedar canoe, my friend and I
Skinny...
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Categories:
lushness, adventure, best friend, memory,
Form: Verse
Summoning Light
...over occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be
in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a ...
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Categories:
lushness, care, city, light, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Human Landscape
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Man the tall mountain,
Protector to pose,
Flexing of granite,
Willed flesh to propose.
Woman the valley,
Soft curving flow,
Stretching of lushness...
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Categories:
lushness, allegory, allusion, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Wave of Fantasy
...Take me away with a wave of fantasy
To an ocean of wonders so full of glee
A world where I’m empowered and free
Where no sorrows can bother me.
Traveling in time, to different places
To many e...
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Categories:
lushness, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Snowstorm
...grim starkness of snow
sturdy in its sleeted falling
willing a bleached landscape
a lushness
that chokes the rough field terrain
strides of power
as the fevered wind
spirals In an unexpecte...
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Categories:
lushness, environment, january, snow, winter,
Form: Imagism
Home Medicines
...Invincible craving for the relish from home,
Laughter in deep dimples sets as lava, seats silently with desires.
Mother’s medicines rejuvenate,
Food, Bring them from Africa.
Especially from M...
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Categories:
lushness, africa, allusion, desire, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Ice In the Wind
...Fall begins with ice in the wind
A light shiver inside and out
As if the summer breeze has sinned
And lost it’s heat to blow about
Cooling your senses with each breath
Fall begins with ice in ...
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Categories:
lushness, seasons,
Form: Quatern
Blackberry Way
...Oh, tempter, displaying your unripe ruby fruit,
Easy pickings for the lazy, raffish masses
While staying your ripe royal lushness out of reach
Behind thorn barriers to tear the hides of men
Greed...
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Categories:
lushness, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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