Precise Past
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M-emories
A-lways
R-eturn
I-nto
S-oul's
H-ead,
M-aking
A-ll
L-ife's
L-ovely
O-utlooks
W-ell-defined
M-agnifying
A-ll
R-ecollections
A-nd
O-rderly
N-ostalgia
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Categories:
mallow, birthday,
Form: Other
Come, Graceful Brittlebush
...Come, graceful brittlebush
And creamy globe mallow blooms.
The winds of spring call you
Again from the sandy tombs.
Come, you dashing lupine
And join the wingnuts on the hills.
Go an...
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Categories:
mallow, flower, spring, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Color My Small World -
...Color my small world -
Oh, fair Yeshua -
With a streak of globe mallow
Inside a rocky draw
And the morning calm
Of bergamot and lupine -
So I can stop time
And set my gaze upon t...
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Categories:
mallow, christian, flower, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Flower Love
...O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
th...
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Categories:
mallow, devotion, flower, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
Speaking to the Fire
...Speaking to the Fire is my communication and commitment to you!
Speaking to you was different from speaking with the others.
Every word you stated was well received and pontificated within the min...
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Categories:
mallow, appreciation, friendship, love,
Form: Blank verse
Under a Sky of Celadon -
...Under a sky of celadon -
I watched bees huddle
In frenzied expectation
Of riding a flaxen petal.
Lupine and globe mallow
Danced about while sage
Waved at me from below -
Comprisi...
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Categories:
mallow, butterfly, flower, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Golden retriever energy
...Golden retriever energy
from a human marshmallow
Squidgy, and layers of softness
So sickly, it’s yellow
Push me and shape me
Gelatine-free
and never fully set
I long for warmth a...
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Categories:
mallow, deep, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Tea Time
...Let me leave the fabric spinning off "social lubricant."
Or the amino acid that alters brain attention
the alert, attentive, calm, cumulative jubilant
I attain at a cup of tea is beyond all mentio...
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Categories:
mallow, life, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Potted Lilac
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Written: December 10, 2023
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Soft cashmere amethyst blossoms twinkle.
lilac lace of their heavenly voice
awaken singing the sp...
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Categories:
mallow, analogy, appreciation, beauty, flower,
Form: Etheree
Behold the Marvelous Wildflowers!
...Behold the marvelous wildflowers!
How they boldly carpet a sloping glen –
Our gift from Earth’s seasonal showers.
Hardly is the desert recognizable
Come March to an untrained eye when
Spring ...
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Categories:
mallow, flower, march, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Let Us Drink In the Sunshine
...Let us drink in the sunshine
From a cup of globe mallow
As do the angelic kind
Who sup alongside God’s throne.
Here’s to another springtime.
Here’s to hope for tomorrow....
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Categories:
mallow, celebration, god, sunshine, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
The Garden of Eden
...Desert Botanical Garden - Phoenix, AZ
Come and find me in this garden;
I know not where the hours go.
Palm fronds brush against my cheek –
Lone toadstool, blush of mallow...
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Categories:
mallow, christian, flower, garden, love,
Form: Rhyme
Meal Fit For a King
...Out in the field is a bed of chicory,
down along the ditch, wild hydrangeas grow.
Dandelions in the yard are quite tasty,
so is the duckweed by the side of the road.
Wild lettuce, lamb’s quarte...
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Categories:
mallow, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Musk Hibiscus
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Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly
Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully ...
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Categories:
mallow, change, color, environment, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Loss and Faith
...the bones of this love
have been resurrected
green are they
but only of mold and mildew
leave my bones in the earth she said
seek the mallow marrow
reach for the softly beating passion
t...
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Categories:
mallow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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