P S Its Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 16
...P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 16
Paul Callus 40, 53, 93
Paul Gardner 384
Paul H. Schne...
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Categories:
mcferran, analogy, appreciation, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
The City Zoo
...A cute gentile pig in New York
plays hopscotch over turtle hurdles
which eased her bunny
until a smack talking turkey announced,
'Did you hear how the skunks in bombay
lost a spelling bee - to a...
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Categories:
mcferran, animal, friendship, fun, silly,
Form: Free verse
In This Dream Called Life
...A lover’s moon
I wander the desert alone
Figment of my imagination
Butterfly in my pocket
Wishing you were here
Listening and waiting
In this dream called life
A window to the soul
An adventu...
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Categories:
mcferran, dream, life, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
I Choose My Friends So Carefully - Collaboration With Caren Krutsinger
...I Choose My Friends So Carefully
by Caren Krutsinger & Rhona McFerran
Get back in your house,
I will stay in mine.
We won’t act like neighbors,
Everything will be fine.
I had given you chan...
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Categories:
mcferran, feelings, friendship, humorous, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
I Choose My Friends So Carefully Collaboration With Rhona Mcferran
...I Choose My Friends So Carefully
by Caren Krutsinger & Rhona McFerran
Get back in your house,
I will stay in mine.
We won’t act like neighbors,
Everything will be fine.
I had given you chan...
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Categories:
mcferran, friendship, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Only She Was There
...ONLY SHE WAS THERE
A remote deserted beach somewhere
no footprints in the sand,
peace and silence broken by the crashing waves,
the screeching gulls,
and I was contemplating her in all and...
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Categories:
mcferran, loss,
Form: Free verse
A Star Fell
...A STAR FELL
. . . later that evening, under the yellow lamplight
I saw you again, you were on the veranda,
you looked . . . expectant
as if waiting for something to happen
with an anxio...
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Categories:
mcferran, night,
Form: Free verse
Your Face
...Into the depths, the heavens high,
the floating spinning worlds,
upturned a thousand fallen leaves
to find another woman’s love,
all I could see,
your lovely beaut...
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Categories:
mcferran, gender,
Form: Free verse
Looking For You
...All through the long winter
I went looking for you,
I searched all the old familiar places
but you were nowhere to be found,
at last, weary of the search I sat in the silence
and there you were...
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Categories:
mcferran, absence,
Form: Free verse
My Birthday Party
...MY BIRTHDAY PARTY
Once,
I invited some special friends
to my tea party,
I made cheese, cress and tomato sandwiches,
blueberry yogurt and a pot of jasmine tea.
I spread a white linen table c...
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Categories:
mcferran, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Our Last Kiss
...I remember too the countless times
I brushed my lips softly across your tired brow,
. . . but that once before you left to journey home
I kissed your lips, and there in my heart it remains
like...
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Categories:
mcferran, loss,
Form: Free verse
Lost and Found
...Beloved,
I had written your name on the walls of my heart,
pasted your invisible image on the core of my being,
deep, deep in the depths of space and time
everywhere I searched for you,
I look...
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Categories:
mcferran, loss,
Form: Free verse
It Comes To Me
...IT COMES TO ME
What would you have me do with these my tears,
shall I gather them together in a tiny bottle and keep them
on a chain close to my heart,
or shall I scatter them over the dying au...
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Categories:
mcferran, miss you,
Form: Free verse
One Butterfly Wing
...ONE BUTTERFLY WING
In deep distress she damaged her wings
in her endless struggles
beating them against our bedroom walls,
in her last days she made haste
and flew through the ceiling and then,
sh...
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Categories:
mcferran, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
My Dearest Dear
...She came . . .
quietly, secretly
to my lonely bed last night
and from a hidden pocket in her robe
she took a ring,
a circle forged of gold,
and whilst I blushed a deep rose-red
she placed it on m...
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Categories:
mcferran, marriage,
Form: Free verse
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