Roosters From Another Creek
...Urban jungle roosters,
born-again scarecrow,
to untutored city eyes,
tawny pipit stonewall nester,
jet black Inca dove bereft,
of dovetail on a croque monsieur,
idle bone grub crawl,
mother h...
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Categories:
nester, art, beautiful, beauty, environment,
Form: Ekphrasis
White Wine And Feather Boa Dreams
...I wrap myself
in feather-boa-fantasies of his dreams
sinuous pinot-grigio-me;
X-rated and never sated
dancing to rock ‘n roll— 80’s dated
...my floorshow our foreplay
welcome to the conjuga...
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Categories:
nester, age, beauty, marriage, passion,
Form: Free verse
No One To Come Home To
...
Aloneness
metamorphosizes
into isolating loneliness
with haunting banshee-like screams;
daily caged inside
perennially mute
four walls,
a divorced empty nester.
Inhabiting
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Categories:
nester, divorce, fate, freedom, home,
Form: Verse
Empty Nester
...The time has come, the nest is bare.
The little ones have grown and flown elsewhere.
The house once filled with laughter, turmoil and noise
now echoes silence, with peace heralding different joys....
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Categories:
nester, family,
Form: Free verse
Empty Nester
...I never thought that I would be a mom,
you were an unexpected surprise.
I fell in love with you instantly my child,
My nurturing womb was your first home.
You alone were my absolute everything,...
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Categories:
nester, child, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Tricky Chirp
...The Tricky Chirp
The nester bird comes to live,
in a nest, they did not make.
Yet... the bird,
feels right at home
and not alone at all.
The new mom seems surprised,
she can not hide ...
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Categories:
nester, age, angel, change, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Empty Nester
...sad faces
final waves goodbye
nope, not at
funeral
last child leaves home
makes her Dad...
an empty n...
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Categories:
nester, farewell, father daughter, home,
Form: Shadorma
An Odd Group
...
We meet once a week, an odd group of poetic friends-
Hannah is from Atlanta and wears a bandana,
Abraham always says hello ma'am to me quietly, oh
Timothy is all fidgety, and
Stephen is dre...
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Categories:
nester, humor,
Form: Acrostic
Happy Father's Day, Dads
...I just want to tell all the fathers out there
Thank you
Thank you for having your seeds
Thank you for carrying it to the next generation
Thank you for sticking around
Thank you for learning to b...
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Categories:
nester, faith, fathers day,
Form: Free verse
Reflections
...Reflections
Looking up above, at the blue sky, at the white doves, as the rain is coming from a distant cloud, at the mountains staring back so calmly displayed, like a post card, in my back yard....
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Categories:
nester, beauty, happiness, , cute,
Form: Lyric
Falcon Rollers
...I have a little birdie
And we have a little nest
She came up fast
Now with wings so strong
But a true nester
She’ll be the strong
I am the deep roller
I fly higher than most all
Way above t...
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Categories:
nester, devotion, nature,
Form: Rhyme
In the Year 2012 Contest
...2012
Hungry reader, wild sea lover, wordsmith, listener of dreams and lies
Daughter of beloved parents –strong-- longingly and sorely missed
Left Alaska, empty nester, wrote a book and growled thr...
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Categories:
nester, adventure, life, sea, sea,
Form: Bio
Richie's Wedding
...My nephew Richie finally took a bride
Down the aisle she did gracefully glide
Radiant was Erin standing by his side
But my sister-in-law just cried and cried
“Why?” I asked, as her tears I dried
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Categories:
nester, wedding
Form: Rhyme
Welcome To Delhi
...Revived to pop out as an empty nester
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and willed at country’s metropolis.
The heirloom edifices o...
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Categories:
nester, places, social, urbanblue, change,
Form: Imagism