SEVEN DAYS AFTER
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The cloud swallowed up his plane,
As she said a little prayer.
“Soon,” he had said at the last,
“Soon our new life will begin.”
Seven days after, it came;
The notepaper edged in black.
“I reg...
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Categories:
notepaper, loss,
Form: Verse
A Sonnet In the Wind
...A SONNET IN THE WIND - NW
“Tell me how you love me,” she begged him,
As they walked beneath the harvest moon.
But, as usual, he got tongue-tied.
He was not very good with words...
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Categories:
notepaper, love,
Form: Free verse
Letting Go
...Let the yesterday buried in the past
Envisioning a future powerful cast
Taking the bridle of your life in your hands
Telling to the world that mind overexpands
Initiating a dramatic transformatio...
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Categories:
notepaper, feelings,
Form: Verse
Laura Contest
...Laura Contest
Latin for “Laurel” was a tall, strong tree,
Queens crowned with such honor and victory,
Poet Petrarch in love with the beauty,
Beloved Laura, fourteenth century.
So many year...
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Categories:
notepaper, poets, tree,
Form: Sonnet
Paperweight
...I made a paper airplane
From the paper heart
You made me.
But it took off
And flew away on it's own--
Make it again.
I wove a paper chain
For t...
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Categories:
notepaper, cute love, first love,
Form: Free verse
February Cupboard Leftovers
...Chicory and parsley soup
smoked streaky bacon
devilled prawn notepaper bread
sweet sandwich granache
buttermilk snow with
pink rhubarb
Drool !...
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Categories:
notepaper, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Girl of Mine
...When I first saw her
She was only a few hours old
Instinctively kicking her long legs
Howling
To escape
I knew then
She was
A fighter.
Attracted
To an old drawer
I found
Fade...
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Categories:
notepaper, familyold, friend, hair, me,
Form: Narrative
Life Is Sad
...This old man begs me for a quarter
Instead I give him 12 dollars, all I've got
I know he'll go and blow it on booze
But it's alright
Life is sad
"This is what the inside of my head looks ...
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Categories:
notepaper, life, sad, me, sad,
Form: Free verse