A Piece of Cake
...Johnny's parents owned a bakery, selling cakes and yummy confections.
Though only nine-years-old, Johnny showed interest, asking questions.
He was soon making tasty cookies, to the glee ...
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Categories:
moonflowers, birthday, fantasy, food, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Worlds Apart
...In the spaces between heartbeats,
Where time stretches thin as spring leaves of poet-trees
blowing in the breeze,
I catch glimpses of you living
In a universe adjacent to mine.
There, the sky bu...
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Categories:
moonflowers, inspirational, journey, mental health,
Form: Free verse
When Sunset And Stars Shine On Sacred Ground - a Collaboration with Frederic Parker
...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...
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Categories:
moonflowers, beauty, garden, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
When Sunset and Stars Shine on Sacred Ground a collaboration with Susan Ashley
...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...
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Categories:
moonflowers, beauty, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss In The Dark
...December
knows the speech
to transcribe double-edged thoughts,
dried between cognitive spaces
of comets tattooed
with razor-sharp ink~
infused with cinnamon and clover,
emanating toxic per...
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Categories:
moonflowers, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Eternal Flowering
...Moonflowers dance with desert stars
Where wisdom meets the wild heart
In gardens, time forgot to name
Between the spaces silence holds
Truth blooms like midnight roses
Each secret wrapped in s...
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Categories:
moonflowers, flower,
Form: Free verse
Cessation
...O to be the humble horizon
that slumbers in restlessness,
I grieve not for the magnolias
that withered amidst
cruel claws of chaotic cravings.
I weep for the serene
wildflower whispers
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Categories:
moonflowers, blessing,
Form: Free verse
In the Realm of Silver Linings
..." Perhaps, life is just a disaster
wrapped in fairy-glow fragments ~
shimmering with stars of death... "
O' beloved moment of time,
take me where I belong,
in the henna haze of scentless l...
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Categories:
moonflowers, butterfly, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 2
...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE
How alarmin...
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Categories:
moonflowers, desire, flower, mother son,
Form: Haiku
That was Then, This is Now
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I once saw a man with kaleidoscopic eyes,
reflecting in hues of periwinkle and persimmon.
His heart illuminated in shades of scarlet,
marigold and clementine,
releasing rainbow ink from his ...
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Categories:
moonflowers, analogy, perspective,
Form: Narrative
ON THE WIND
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Even at 71 years old I still think of nature as my mentor…her lessons are everywhere…
For instance…on my walk this morning…I felt a sadness in the air.
It was a very windy morning so it’s diffi...
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Categories:
moonflowers, nature, sad, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Art of Forgiveness
...To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune
to your illusive m a n t r a s,
recited in roseate refrains.
I’ve learned to see
the vermilion
f l o a t i n...
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Categories:
moonflowers, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Riveting Romeo
...I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.
Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, ...
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Categories:
moonflowers, fantasy, happiness, love, nature,
Form: Couplet
Melancholic
...I'm sunbird of the sketched skyline,
Soaring across soft sheaths
Of ebony moonflowers,
Inhaling gossamer death, tonight....
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Categories:
moonflowers, death, heartbroken, loss, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Selenophile
...In lunar dreams, the selenophile soars,
Bathed in silver beams, a celestial dance,
With a heart that yearns for enchanted shores.
Beneath the night's veil, in a trance,
The selenophile wanders,...
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Categories:
moonflowers, 11th grade, appreciation, art,
Form: Terzanelle
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