in the head of Claude Debussy
...I would have liked to be in the head of Claude Debussy,
write the “afternoon prelude of a faunal”,
Or "the toy box", or "Bergamasque suite", "La mer",
be a musician, a seer, and invent new music,
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Categories:
mauves, art, inspirational, music,
Form: Free verse
Colors of Love
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Deep within my hidden pastel dreams
are soft sweet colors of a newborn spring
dressed up in mauves and pinks and windham creams
while giving hope to love and all it brings.
Painted in the col...
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Categories:
mauves, color, love,
Form: Sonnet
Chandeliers In The Sky
...Hear our voice
From the east, west, south, and north
Hear our independence
This July Fourth
Like flowers in bloom
In the night
See the chandeliers
Hang in the sky
With crescendos and
Reds, b...
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Categories:
mauves, july, summer,
Form: Rhyme
September Arrival
...September Arrival
Between August and October
Lovely September calls
Curving along colorful path
From summer to fall
Zinnias and Cosmos are in bloom
With yellow, pind and white
Making the s...
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Categories:
mauves, 4th grade, appreciation, color,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Sonata
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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Stunning light reflects the music,
Sof...
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Categories:
mauves, spring,
Form: Free verse
Embedded Hieroglyphics
...Called to journey
Through the passageway of my heart
I close the door and turn
Exposing myself in full surrender
Fuzzy whiteness vibrates around me
A fleecy cocoon tickles my limbs
I feel you...
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Categories:
mauves, beauty, celebration, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Dusk Ends the Day
...I watch as late afternoon begins the decay
Fading into shadows, dusk ends the day
Sky lightens into the palest of blues
Drifts to mauves and shell pink hues
The bush sinks heavily in its...
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Categories:
mauves, earth, silence,
Form: Couplet
My Inner Child
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I ride the vibrant crests
Of a tangerine moon
Glowing across stardust ridges
Where inspiration tickles
My heart with laughing dewdrops
I drift on the edge of a smiling
Emerald fores...
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Categories:
mauves, child, childhood, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Clockwise
...gold pink orange dawn
rise up refreshed in sunshine
like a fragrant bloom
in torrid noon hour
emerald green and jaded
birds sing to summer
reds mauves turn dusky
shadows lengthen into nigh...
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Categories:
mauves, color, day, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Celestial Sensations
...sun bids her farewell
with a final curtain call
reds and mauves to thrill
venus then twinkles
with diamonds full of love
sprinkled from above
moon crescent in view
luna love forevermor...
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Categories:
mauves, moon, sun, universe,
Form: Haiku
The Poetry of Color
...Colors dancing ‘cross the canvas
from the artist’s seasoned brush;
hues of reds and mauves and blues all
waltzing slowly in a hush.
Swaying softly to the music
drifting calmly thro...
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Categories:
mauves, art, color, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Solitude
...in silence i stand
wistful recollections
censure this mind
unfolding fragility of fate
lost in soft shadows of time
nothings irreplaceable
death's cold hand touches me
between the whispers a...
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Categories:
mauves, death, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Memories
...Oh mighty tree whose leaves look on fire
Vibrant orange, red colours spiralling
like feathers, raising ones hopes and desire
gently with aplomb on the trail falling.
Scrunch is the sound childr...
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Categories:
mauves, autumn,
Form: Sonnet
Grand Canyon
...In western skies, an eagle soars, at ease.
Below, the curving Colorado flows,
Winding its way through deep and dusty seas
Carving canyon walls steep, through tracts of time.
Twilight to twiligh...
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Categories:
mauves, history, nature, ocean, river,
Form: Free verse
My Happiest Fetish
...I have a small secret confession to make,
And I’ll tell you about it right now.
It’s a fetish I have with the skin on my face,
Above and below my eyebrow.
I love to tattoo small spots and fre...
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Categories:
mauves, beauty, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
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