Secret Words Zephyr
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Written: June 22, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Joseph May
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Pristine splendor, saunter dark path
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Categories:
mandrakes, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Roundel
My Soul My Dream My Story
...My Soul awakened to an autumn song serene pleasant vital and calm! My flesh went to sleep kissing the autumn breeze that blew in the window while the autumn waterfall did spring forth the smell of a...
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Categories:
mandrakes, appreciation, beauty, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
The White Jasmine Lord
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first flowers open, seasons begin ! :
bloom before doom
as always
Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of ap...
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Categories:
mandrakes, allegory, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Usurper's Sons
...Jacob loved Rachel
Laban connived
Jacob wed Leah
Leah, weak eyed
Jacob wed Rachel
Seven long years!
Rachel was loved
Rachel was barren
Leah was scorned
Leah was bearing
Leah bore Reuben...
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Categories:
mandrakes, bible, birth,
Form: I do not know?
Protest of the Root People
...The root people were gearing up for war.
They had their swords and axes out.
They were heading toward the store,
Where a rude man had been a lout.
We are taking all our kin home, they said.
Yo...
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Categories:
mandrakes, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Crescent Time Breathing
...Crescent Time Breathing
There is no reach by which we as breathing creatures of crescent time,
Can ascertain the crouching intentions behind an elm tree with acorn outbursts,
Designed to scan th...
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Categories:
mandrakes, time,
Form: Free verse
Manageable Merry-Making Made Marvelous
...Manageable merry-making makes many memorable moments
more mischievous and malleable.
Marvelously multi-talented muffin-makers and mandrakes may
Momentarily mollify Matt’s merriment.
Masterful me...
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Categories:
mandrakes, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Formless
...Sleeping giant,formless,not yet born,
You will awaken as poison.
Rising up from retention ponds,
Dragonflies with nephilim wings.
Writing prophecies on liquid scrolls,
Your iridescent words ...
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Categories:
mandrakes, corruption, culture, dark, environment,
Form: Free verse
Satan's Apple
...I wonder if God hates cowards, for
My sins mushroom near Satan's apple
I live and die in my own filth
No human or angel treads
Near my Mandragora hub
Its narcotism excites my senses
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Categories:
mandrakes, addiction, angel, fruit, imagery,
Form: Free verse
My Love For You Will Never Wax Cold
...GentleMan
I remain blind to the world but you.
The Lily among Thorns
and the perfect work of a craftsman's hand.
Giving usefulness to my Banquet Hall
and injecting Life into my gr...
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Categories:
mandrakes, heart, husband, love, romance,
Form: Lyric
That Certain Part of the Male Anatomy
...Today's society says,
"You're not a man
If you can't turn flesh to stone."
So drug after drug is manufactured
To make men feel like teens again.
"Bigger, longer, faster, stronger"
Is the motto ...
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Categories:
mandrakes, faith, happiness, hope, husband,
Form: Free verse
Two Sisters, One Man
...Two sisters, one man-
Well-tricked for his trickery,
Jacob gained two wives.
Two sisters, one man-
One weak-eyed and unwanted;
One was beautiful.
Two sisters, one man-
In love he wept for ...
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Categories:
mandrakes, hope, husband, imagination, loss,
Form: Senryu
Your Lover (Part Iii)
...Listen to your lover as he comes, gazing in your windows, peering
through the lattice, leaping across your mountains and bounding over your hills
like a gazelle or young stag in your garden orcha...
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Categories:
mandrakes, devotion, husband, life, love,
Form: Epithalamium
Prince Charming and the Mermaid
...Pelting shapely pebbles into the lucid lake,
Lonely, among daffodils and golden mandrakes,
And rejoicing the dance of silver flakes,
A delicate penumbra catches his fancy great,
And in a sweep, a...
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Categories:
mandrakes, love, daffodils,
Form: Free verse