Black Hole Love
...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me...
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Categories:
mistral, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Onyx Clouds and Opal Dreams
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Written: January 30, 2025
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Beneath February breath,
a fugue of magic hues—
embers of crimson,
coppered caramel trill
as maples s...
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Categories:
mistral, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Rhapsody of Color and Light
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Written: January 28, 2025, for contest
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Maples dance in fugue autumn's breath,
Symphony of mistral whispers,
In rhapsody, crimson ...
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Categories:
mistral, autumn, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup
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I've found a Haven, a hidden space to breathe
Where emotion permeates into a mistral breeze
So lofty are her cumulous clouds of inspired thoughts
Leading all who wander in to explore wondrous wa...
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Categories:
mistral, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Sound Bites: June, 2024
...Mariah’s Return
Mistral wishes
blow hope
to tomorrow
Intention
most sacred
— ushering wind
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
Cupid’s Bow
Indifference
and hatred
are blind
— but not lov...
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Categories:
mistral, fate, wind,
Form: Rhyme
The Empty Room
...Alone the bones of the room
bear no weight of responsibility
nor does it bare its breast of secrets
a broken pane
provides a breath with a pang of lavender
a wistful inhale
inhabits the ...
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Categories:
mistral, baby, flower, girl, grief,
Form: Free verse
Three Sister Winds
...Three sister winds,
Ephemeral progeny,
Spawned by the sun's relentless
But passionless heat,
And the earth's inexorable
Grinding rotation:
Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the...
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Categories:
mistral, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
A Sailor's Prayer
...Oh mighty mistral winds
Fill my sails and take me home
This voyage never ends
Over countless seas I roam
On this ship I'm but a slave
Still I struggle and I try
I fight each giant wave
As ...
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Categories:
mistral, sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Mistral Winds
...Driven by the Mistral wind
My soul vanquished by the sea
On a course that has no end
Still, where I was meant to be
Mesmerized by ocean tides
As if Heaven here on Earth
Lonely thoug...
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Categories:
mistral, freedom, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Foolish Whims Scatter
...Foolish whims scatter
I played at life, but life played me harder,
Lived bet to debt, in life's Russian roulette
I place a wager, speed into danger
My foolish whims, scatter in mistral winds
N...
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Categories:
mistral, confusion, fate, future, lost,
Form: Verse
Dragons
...Anemoi, the wind that de-horns goats.
Moorish Melteme, the ill-tempered one.
Simoom, the lung poisoner.
Rashabbar the black swirling.
The Squamish, the Elephanta, the Williwaw,
thieves that ...
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Categories:
mistral, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow In the Wind
...Hidden deep within the trees
a whispering tomorrow
Buried in their shadows
voices fall and take new breath
The midnight wind blows silent
carrying hope into the future
Words caught up and ven...
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Categories:
mistral, hope, time, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow In the Wind
...Hidden deep within the trees
a whispering tomorrow
Buried in their shadows
voices fall and take new breath
The midnight wind blows silent
carrying hope into the future
Words caught up and ven...
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Categories:
mistral, hope, time, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To Poets
...DRUMMOND
Oh Drummond,
how were you so straight
being so gauche...
FERNANDO
Oh Fernando,
you were so ...
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Categories:
mistral, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Spring Whimsy
...Spring Whimsy
winter packs his trunk
full of icy fleece and flakes ~
going south for spring
spring unpacks her bags
rolls out green hills with poppies ~
mustard carpets glens
vern...
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Categories:
mistral, spring,
Form: Haiku
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