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Mcferran Poems - Poems about Mcferran

Premium MemberP 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


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Paul Gardner                              384
Paul H. Schne...
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Categories: mcferran, analogy, appreciation, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe 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



Premium MemberIn 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

Premium MemberI 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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