New Zealand Pastoral
...In the tea trees to the whistling song thrush
I alone hear the first September dawn,
and outside beyond ryegrass, fern and rush
glisten woolly coats of sheep early shorn.
Smell the petr...
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Categories:
moonset, change, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
bistro
...Peter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This i...
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Categories:
moonset, boyfriend, humor, paris, student,
Form: Free verse
passing
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full moonset at dawn
she lights up a cigarette
and mourns its passing
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Categories:
moonset, nature,
Form: Haiku
Moonset
...Smoking upon a summer dawn.
Seeing the moondown as it still shone....
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Categories:
moonset, addiction, day, drug, moon,
Form: Crystalline
Moonset At the Sea
...Moonset calm at sea
Pisces dive spry on the moon
moon party at sea...
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Categories:
moonset, allegory, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Haiku
We Poets Are Waiting For the Moonset
...we poets are waiting for the moonset
sitting on my balcony, evolutions shamans
now wandering the beach
we are solving every social ill
while walking Blake's path of excess
to some palace of wis...
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Categories:
moonset, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Petrichor
...Petrichor
(n.)
The pleasant earthy smell after rain.
You touch me under the cloudburst,
And paint me with your fragrance,
As we walk through the wet meadow,
The pleasant scent of petrichor ca...
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Categories:
moonset, earth, earth day, nature,
Form: Free verse
God's Holy Portrait-
...Zest for life
Sunset
Wonderful listeria
Moonrise
Universal kaleidoscope
God's holy portrait
Wild blue yonder
Sunrise
Brilliancy light
Moonset
Picturesque
God's Holy portrait
1/27/20...
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Categories:
moonset, analogy, imagery, inspirational, universe,
Form: Free verse
Larkspur Wish
...Why did men long ago sing to the skies
When they burned hot with scorching honeyed flame
When the graphite waters began to rise
Why did their hope remain ever the same?
Did they inspire sweet, na...
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Categories:
moonset, i love you, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
The Lupus Was a She
...The lupus was a she
howling at an orange winter moon
baying for a he
with pups yelping unison in tune.
“Where could Daddy be?”
They question Mother as she softly moans.
"Just wait there ...
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Categories:
moonset, animal, death,
Form: Personification
I Let Go
...Not always do we meet people with dreams
fantasies too foolish to share
Imaginations too absurd to express
We met and not at first sight but I fell
We could play from sunrise till moonset
Bu...
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Categories:
moonset, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Moonset
...B-eacon starts to shine,
M-orning has broken again,
A-s the night is gone.
Form: Acrostic Haiku...
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Categories:
moonset, birthday,
Form: Haiku
Grief Encounter of Endangered Species
...Grief Encounter of Endangered Species
howl for me
old woman wolf
howl and bay
at the cold faced moon
she whose crescent crown
pierces all armour.
I will join you
on this midnight hill
t...
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Categories:
moonset, sister,
Form: Free verse
Wet Moon
...Sagan grins from a Pale Blue Dot
As LCROSS finds water in Cabeus.
Is Su Shih's bright moon finally told --
Echoed by Dickinson's moon of gold?
Did Armstrong sit in contemplation
O'er cheesy ma...
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Categories:
moonset, moon, poetry, science, science
Form: Quatrain
Birdwatching
...birdwatchers
scrambling off the bus
wild turkeys
Moonset/2012...
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Categories:
moonset, bird, humorous,
Form: Senryu
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