Ashes
...The cafe burnt alive as soon as you
Set your patent leather boot inside
And walked right into this unknown,
Mysterious yet familiar world
Of witty writers and pious poets
With their poetic ...
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Categories:
nostalgically, deep, desire, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Raindrops
...The days when I played in them
Not listening to any words from mom.
Cherishing each drop falling on me
Feeling as though a sparrow is free
Sloshing, sploshing, and splashing
Amidst lightning fla...
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Categories:
nostalgically, rain,
Form: Free verse
Scenes of Childhood
...Running fancy free into a field,
Chasing butterflies my path revealed,
My arms outstretched into the sky,
I am so happy--not caring why.
Cooled by a fragrant soft Spring breeze,
I trip and fall ...
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Categories:
nostalgically, growing up, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Searching for the exquisite present
...What compares to the present?
The present is like a needle
Time threading through its eye
A needle on a phonograph
My record is now on the B side
Still, I can't listen to the present
The futu...
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Categories:
nostalgically, future, grave, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
New year's echoes
...
Bidding adieu to a year now past,
Cherishing new dreams and hopes cast .
From memories, you gently fade,
In echoes, where you've stayed.
Resolutions anew, with a fresh start,
Reki...
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Categories:
nostalgically, celebration, happiness, introspection, january,
Form: Rhyme
In the heart of worlds, a whisper sneaks
...In the heart of worlds, a whisper sneaks,
"We fear love," a question that ripples the calm,
We desire closeness, a sweet plunge into the verdure of the soul,
Yet doubt surrounds us when ...
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Categories:
nostalgically, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Do Souls Dream?
...Is death a dimension of misplaced minds
That we, as humans, cannot fathom?
When our bodies die, will we find
An existence entirely unimagined?
Are souls of the dead elated in eternity?
Do they b...
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Categories:
nostalgically, death, dream, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Psychology
...Souls are assigned an agenda of purposeful worth
People meander meaning as a purpose of birth
Souls are here to experience emotional exchange
Our confluence with drama deceives us estrange
So...
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Categories:
nostalgically, psychological, religion, soulmate,
Form: Couplet
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...
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Categories:
nostalgically, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Harry Horsman
...(Inspired by Harry’s poems- The Old Oak Tree, Oh them hot air balloons, Death is Not the End and An Agendaless Age)
I have known Harry barely two years back
Yet I felt a strange rapport wit...
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Categories:
nostalgically, appreciation, death of a
Form: Free verse
Our Friendship Story
...Our friendship is our pride,
Boundless love story,
Extraordinary rhapsody,
Metaphorically not satirically,
Chronological not nostalgically..
Our costumes consume cost...
This is not fancifu...
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Categories:
nostalgically, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Turning Usa Upside Downward
...Gleeful happy joyful jubilantly wonderful exciting times
Unknowing about pandemics, upbeat feeling climbs.
Two-thousand-twenty sobering, history unprecedented.
Wishing China bat-eating fetish neve...
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Categories:
nostalgically, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Amid Falling Leaves
...Sitting next to me, you turn pages of our album
Unfolding sweet memories, treasured longingly,
Revealing verses of love in ballad of setting sun
Glittering autumn’s twilight on golden foothills
A...
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Categories:
nostalgically, autumn, imagery, memory,
Form: Free verse
Here Be Dragons
...The sea pig wandered aimlessly through the straits of Gibraltar where once upon a time she had seen the pillars of Hercules standing proudly in that so long ago forgotten age
She sighed and swam o...
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Categories:
nostalgically, allegory, change, loss,
Form: Free verse
Your Face Is Like a Playground
...Your face is like a playground
with curved edges inviting
energetic laughter all around,
nostalgically exciting.
Your eyes are like a swing set,
lashes flapping with each blink.
Sometimes pud...
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Categories:
nostalgically, beauty, childhood, emotions, for
Form: Rhyme
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