Memorialized
...To the veteran; daughter, son
We honor you for all you’ve done.
Throughout the land, our flags we raise;
A grateful nation gives you praise.
From general to private class,
Unsung heroes and ho...
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Categories:
memorialized, love, memorial day, soldier,
Form: Kyrielle
Yesterdays Have Already Passed
...The rich green leaves of Summer die in Autumn
like a love that is no more
both defenseless to the currents of change
tumbling toward an unfamiliar stream
flowing out of a sea
where yesterdays ha...
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Categories:
memorialized, life,
Form: Free verse
First Snow
...It's a winter wonderland
pure, pristine, clean,
cleansed of the darkness
given to the transition of the light
release from the cold blackness of night.
The morning sun rise glistens
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Categories:
memorialized, allusion, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Dark goes the death cloud
...Let no war death that wears a shroud,
And memorialized, do us proud.
Loud salutes distract us,
Nor pomp make undue fuss,
In vain are young heads rolled
For the ambitious old,
Silver streaks, s...
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Categories:
memorialized, death, old, war, youth,
Form: Limerick
The Christmas Room
...It lay
halfway down the hall,
once the spare bedroom styled
where out of state family once sprawled,
for a while.
Grown now,
two states away
with families of their own
all too busy for...
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Categories:
memorialized, christmas, family, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Perceived Vantage Point
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This poem is inspired by Jeff Ripple's painting titled 'Stormy Weather'. You can find the link to the painting at the bottom of the page, and there is also an image of the painting uplo...
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Categories:
memorialized, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Single Flame
...innocence memorialized in candlelight
as we sit and dream in its gleam
of flickering and playful flames
timeless and free flowing
finding each other in the midst of longing
vigilant in the raptu...
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Categories:
memorialized, devotion, engagement, feelings, i
Form: Free verse
A Little Jean a Little Monroe
...I can feel your inner pain although I know this can’t be so, running through my own veins after many years of your soul leaving this world for so much more
It’s been almost sixty-two years since you...
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Categories:
memorialized, celebrity, death, devotion, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...
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Categories:
memorialized, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product
eternally preserved within
annals, chroni...
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Categories:
memorialized, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Youth Memorialized
...The first and final time
Not that we knew it
Still half closed, to the world
Cocooned eye and wing
As life's adventurer
Love's, without compare.
If wayward, both accounts.
Butterfly-like in....
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Categories:
memorialized, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...
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Categories:
memorialized, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Missus Unflagging Crocheting Efforts As Betsy Ross Incarnate
...The missus unflagging crocheting efforts as Betsy Ross incarnate
With needle in hand incorporating love
in every single crochet stitch
that's my wife
tad more'n a quarter century ago
then newl...
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Categories:
memorialized, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
We Swooning Sparking Sparkling Fiery Fierce Lovers, By Davieo, David Rothchild
...We Swooning Sparking Sparkling Fiery Fierce Lovers, By Davieo, David Rothchild
We Swooning Sparking Sparkling Fiery Fierce Lovers
When we were wholly as one true being complete
Long known birth...
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Categories:
memorialized, allusion, cute love, funny
Form: Free verse
No Roof For Reindeer
...No Roof For Reindeer
The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
and e'en 'pon
being razed ~2012 ah
n...
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Categories:
memorialized, absence, adventure, animal, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
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