Petals of Pain
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Pale pink peonies, I carried on the day we said, "I do."
Not the innocence of white Queen Anne's Lace of spring,
nor romantic stems of red roses on a sultry summer day.
In all the years share...
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Categories:
nameplate, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Tomb
...Never had I met you
Still I know your name,
Because of the notoriety
Because of the fame
Written in stone
Forever and a day,
Many gone too soon
Seems to happen that way
Halls of Hollyw...
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Categories:
nameplate, celebrity, death, grave, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
As Fames Are Found To Fade
...I
Proudest of graves as get grey mass of moss,
Where goats greedily browse young sprouts still green,
The graves as get grey that had grandeur seen,
Tallest of fames fade fainter with dull glo...
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Categories:
nameplate, fate, grave,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Three Lined Poetry a Life
...A life in tree-lined poetry
Once I was a cook on the high seas and worked long days
seven days a week; Eater and Christmas meant more work
baking cakes and baking bread.
It was not only tirin...
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Categories:
nameplate, blessing, history, humanity, humor,
Form: Verse
Thirty One and Going Strong
...It's happy anniversary again
thirty one years seems not long
but so thankful for all your love
every echo within makes a great song
Thirty one and going strong
looking forward to many more
to...
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Categories:
nameplate, anniversary, love, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
The Candlemaker's Office
...The Candlemaker’s Office
was sparsely filled.
The worn brass door knob —
a patina
countless hands
slipping over its surface,
polished and discolored
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Categories:
nameplate, boy, childhood, family, father,
Form: Free verse
A Demanding Steed
...A Demanding Steed
Once upon a crisp Winter morning, while the cardinals so lively, announced the awakening of a new day.
I sprang out of bed, pressed play on the radio, and begin to dress for a ...
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Categories:
nameplate, animal, appreciation, farm, home,
Form: Narrative
- Can'T Escape -
...No thoughts, no consciousness
Echo the sound of strangled cry
Can't escape
Take my hand
The dark dungeons without the breath of life
Deeper than you can imagine
Can't escape
Take my hand...
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Categories:
nameplate, death, family, goodbye,
Form: Couplet
Nostalgia
...I could see your excitement
Each time you picked up the phone
The only thing you always asked—
Daughter, when are you coming home
Very soon, I always replied
What can I get you father?
Choco...
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Categories:
nameplate, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
The Harmony
...The Harmony
I saw a village on top of a cliff overlooking the sea,
and each tiny house had a nameplate.
The road up was cumbersome a track of thistles,
I thought only the brave gets to dwell whe...
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Categories:
nameplate, dedication, mystery, house, house,
Form: Blank verse
The Stranger -Two Parts
...( story 03/14/11)
I saw a man coming down the road
Head held high, eyes were strong.
He stopped and asked of me
If he could have a bite to eat.
His clothes were all torn and tattered
I asked...
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Categories:
nameplate, faith, hopeme,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Apartment
...It's the 16th Floor, 302F
do not you worry, you'll love it a whole lot.
I can see your hesitation,
but u'll see, this is the perfect one.
Here we are, white door
with his favourite, brass namepl...
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Categories:
nameplate, lost loveme, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Time
...Depth of a bruised sea
rising from the surface
overwhelms the dumb shore
shining
for impossible tomorrow
golden sand, the locked door.
History repeats amnesia
for a depressed meniscus
shi...
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Categories:
nameplate, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Dirty Time
...Depth of a bruised sea
rising from the surface
overwhelms the dumb shore
shining
for impossible tomorrow
golden sand, the locked door.
History repeats amnesia
for a depressed meniscus
shi...
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Categories:
nameplate, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?