A Triad of Tanka IX
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Fragrant rose petals
Streaked in trickling rivulets
Of shy, tearful zest;
But more poignant your red lips
Moistened by the cooling air.
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Categories:
moistened, emotions,
Form: Tanka
A coin gawks at a grand big note - 2
...But tell my friend, you must have moved a lot.
Oh sure, I’ve been in a constant journey:
To a beggar for a few biscuits bought,
With a child thrilled as if with a trophy,
On pilgrimage, or in som...
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Categories:
moistened, journey, money,
Form: Sonnet
i’m a scoundrel
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I'm a scoundrel thru-and-thru
please don't fall whate'er you do
no libel mine should pain ensue
withdraw your heart
should passion start
what I want's not within
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Categories:
moistened, analogy, love, passion, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Lubricious Kind Of Potion -- slight typo corrected
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The curved fondle of an embrace
within the moistened kindle
of an evening's oiled lamp...
the splendor of your lubricious mouth
gathering all that's aflame and gentle
and I will find the...
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Categories:
moistened, for her, for him,
Form: Romanticism
Summer Outgoing Next to Greet Fall
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Summer not gone, starting showers.
Summer outgoing : Next to greet Fall :
Rainy environ embowers.
Summer not gone, starting showers.
Mois...
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Categories:
moistened, autumn, rain, summer,
Form: Triolet
Echoes of a Victorian Christmas
...Men in tailored suits
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped,
crinolined,
elegantly sculpted.
Their tigh...
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Categories:
moistened, christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative
I Breathe You In: 300
...As the ethereal guitar mesmerises
My soul responds
As if I dipped into a melodic bath
Of perfectly curated
Lovingly tempered
Heart massaging
Candle flickering
Water
A fragrant tune invad...
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Categories:
moistened, blessing, dream, guitar, happy,
Form: Free verse
Row by Row the Nettles Grow
...Row by row the nettles grow
And circles do surround
Hairy stems the prison wires
And jagged leaves their barbs.
Cry out, forsaken sinner
Your voice shall not be heard
We listen to the wind s...
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Categories:
moistened, christian, death, death of
Form: Free verse
A Sad Farewell
..."The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire".
After many cold winters, they met again,
Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night.
Though they had planned it over many a time,
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Categories:
moistened, destiny, first love, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Only love knows
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When the stars send their gentle glow, whispering
winking, flirting with the shadows cast over the night’s sky
breaking through the horizon – strewn haphazardly
sometimes so careful to rip...
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Categories:
moistened, appreciation, god, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Muddied Bloodied Memories
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Why do you haunt me dear cousin of mine
I desperate to leave all this sorrow behind!
But how can I wash from my you...
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Categories:
moistened, dark, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Absence
..."Absence makes the love grow"
Absence grows love?
grows love??
Okay but what is what is absence?
Fair enough
But surely, if
I...
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Categories:
moistened, absence, crush, desire, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
the sorcerers apprentice
...The old sorcerer was teaching his apprentice a lesson about the moon, but as usual the subject drifted, this time, to witches. “How would I know a witch if I saw one?” The apprentice asked.
“It’s ...
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Categories:
moistened, fantasy, fun, humor, write,
Form: Free verse
I Just Called To Say I Love You
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Nightbird croons at me again, again
beneath a sheet of clouds,
like cozy pillow to my moon
to tuck my ruffled mind away...
Through drizzle's fading glint and flow
I muse about my man...
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Categories:
moistened, devotion, romantic love,
Form: Romanticism
Offering
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offering amour-
with flowers moistened in tears~
accept: do honour.
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Categories:
moistened, love,
Form: Senryu
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