Tea Time
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Lure of sunset quiets the soul
Mellowing hazed thoughts from day's work
Nothing but herbal tea clears mind
Oft not , caffeine- loaded Starbucks -
Peace wafts by brewing turmeric
Acebedaria...
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Categories:
mellowing, cool, drink,
Form: Abecedarian
Glimmers at Dusk's Edge
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Written: March 1st, 2025, For Brian Strand Contest
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In the heart of
a howling waterfront,
where waves weave whispers
to the waning night,
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Categories:
mellowing, analogy, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
mellowing, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
Buttered Fields
...Buttered Fields
It was early when she was tickled awake
as light eased under the eaves
to trickle through a sigh of curtains,
to whisper across the bedroom floor,
to nudgingly nestle beside h...
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Categories:
mellowing, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Plum Delicious
...Jack Horner was an impish little boy, who lived on Cherry Orchard farm;
That produced varieties of fruit. For a mellowing sun, kept groves warm.
The Horners had always been a serious set-...
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Categories:
mellowing, christmas, fantasy, fruit, nature,
Form: Couplet
Marigold
...Marigolds bloom for you,
Morning light breaking through,
Memories old, yet true,
Marking paths we've once crossed,
Majesty never lost,
Mirrors of love’s soft glow,
Mellowing hearts, we grow....
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Categories:
mellowing, flower,
Form: Pleiades
Autumn Leaves
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Autumn Leaves
When leaves in the midst of trees change their hues
Turning to a sweet palette of colours
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Categories:
mellowing, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Free verse
September Falls
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September Falls
Since the days of creation of seasons
Earth has witnessed the splendors of nature
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Categories:
mellowing, analogy, appreciation, autumn, september,
Form: Acrostic
Whispers of Autumn
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Whispers of Autumn
Whispers of wet winds on mellowing leaves
Herald coming of the autumn seaso...
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Categories:
mellowing, analogy, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A subtle summer
...In the gratifying embrace of the sun's glow
a delightful plight, a verdant tableau;
Where the blazing sovereign of light reigns
scattering, a gleam of kaleidoscopic refrains;
The sweet sounds of...
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Categories:
mellowing, cheer up, creation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Tenth Twilight
...Twas' a mellowing twilight on the end of the day
Where the whispers of dusk benignly sway
when the weary traveler of orange bid adieu
varnishing the sky with amber and blue
As the shadows lengthe...
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Categories:
mellowing, introspection, nature, perspective, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Optimism
...Positivity breeds it graceful wings
Disseminating compassion, to all the lowly things.
'Tis as lustrous as the mellowing sun
delivering exuberance to everyone.
Yet there are shadows, lurking 'hin...
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Categories:
mellowing, analogy, blessing, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Ille Terra Lamentum
...The consummate scent of Earth's due decay
Subdues gently the fervor of Death's perennial
Parade, whose incumbent silences the withering leaves
Do so barely correct, by singing tremulous or crying ...
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Categories:
mellowing, autumn, death, life, october,
Form: Quatern
Autumnal
...In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing foothills, where vistas ga...
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Categories:
mellowing, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Frosted Smiles
...The night falls deeper
And the pain anguishes
In the embracing laughter
The dewing ire of happiness
Falls in my lap
After the long showers of saddening
In the shady cave
The decked up soothin...
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Categories:
mellowing, 12th grade, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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