To Friendly Face and Open Door
...In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet:
for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall be raised up
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
—1 Cor 15:52
To Friend...
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Categories:
non rhyming, pain, spring, time,
Form: Pantoum
March
...March is a soft conversation
as I look out the window.
March is the front lawn
after shaking off remnants of snow.
March is a sunny day
and in the next a touch of rain.
March is a branch ...
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Categories:
non rhyming, love, magic, march, spring,
Form: List
How To Haiku
...three non rhyming lines
just seventeen syllables ~
let nature inspire...
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Categories:
non rhyming, poetry, writing,
Form: Haiku
The Dead Weight of a Tomb
...Kicked away, the dead weight of a tomb.
Agape, bug-eyes; and gullet, of guards.
Dawn, with its playful bouquet, first in.
Nature resounds as power walks out.
Women and men, still mourning th...
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Categories:
non rhyming, christian,
Form: Couplet
Running Away
...I’m running away
to unearth consolation.
My knees - my bindle,
carried to the ground.
To unearth consolation,
I’ve traveled so far, so near.
Carried to the ground -
all my trepi...
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Categories:
non rhyming, christian, grief, prayer,
Form: Pantoum
In the Yawning
...Coffee! Coffee In the Yawning.
Pour straight from the pot.
In the dawning - deep fog of brain.
Lifting of the breakfast cup.
Pour straight from the pot.
Open very wide, the eyes.
Lift...
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Categories:
non rhyming, drink, food, morning,
Form: Pantoum
June
...It is June again.
It is a June after our June when my mind is not preoccupied by bigger concerns:
friends, college, which show should I binge?
It is a June since our June when my heart is not in a...
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Categories:
non rhyming, beautiful, for him, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Unable of Late
...Of late, I seem unable
To write a song or fable.
Perhaps it’s too much caffeine;
I seem to be unstable.
Now recently, I’m shaking;
My muscles have been aching.
I may be lacking protein,
Or m...
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Categories:
non rhyming, missing, muse, silly,
Form: Rubaiyat
Poetic Feat - Delete Delete
...There are so many forms poetic
at which I am sadly pathetic
The Etheree don’t set me free
The Villanelle, this poet’s hell
The Cinquain is a royal pain
I find the Acrostic absurdly caustic
Bl...
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Categories:
non rhyming, fun, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Walk
...On a Sunday in July
The meadow will sing of sage,
And laurel will rise purple
When I am strolling through the woodland.
written January 12, 2022
[a Lind30 7/7/7/9 poem
non-rhyming]...
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Categories:
non rhyming, flower, nature,
Form: Verse
Autumn Promises
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autumn promises embrace the silence, melting away bitterness, awakening the brilliance of peace in the shadows of His grace - Quote by Poet
Syllable based – 5-3-5
harve...
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Categories:
non rhyming, autumn, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
Birth Notes
...The mystery of my birthday has been solved
Seems it was a Friday, two days before Pearl Harbor
Twenty-six days remaining in the year evolved
Into the most momentous for both my mother
and th...
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Categories:
non rhyming, birth, history, perspective,
Form: Quintain (English)
Noble Virtues
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Virtue
of Loyalty:
dependability
sincerity, devotedness
fidelity, credence-
noble to be
Loyal.
Virtue
of Honesty:
respectability
transparency, morality
accountability-
nob...
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Categories:
non rhyming, inspirational, words,
Form: Verse
Chimera
...Perched atop the vaulted arches of Notre Dame
Exquisitely carved spouts are not angelic hosts
To receive the embattled, sinful souls seeking
Entrance to the cathedral, Paris's most holy,
Clos...
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Categories:
non rhyming, christian, irony, religion, religious,
Form: Sonnet
Surveyor of the Storm
...SURVEYOR OF THE STORM
Today’s early afternoon is somber-gray.
Red, white, blue, cherry willow, stars.
A single lightning bolt, in downward zigzag,
striking, alongside the bark of a crépe myrt...
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Categories:
non rhyming, storm,
Form: Couplet
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