Changing of the Guard
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My wait over in my thirty-ninth year
when an old covet brought a life’s new lease,
and on my first watch would elated stare
upon nursling eyes shut in newborn peace.
Thirty-nine years b...
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Categories:
nursling, baby, change, father son,
Form: Sonnet
The Fire
...Carry it gingerly to the backyard,
it is a nursling yet ancient,
as stiff as chard gristle, as soft as lead,
as hard as a gallstone.
Open your hand.
see how it glows coal black.
This is your ...
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Categories:
nursling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Judgement Day
...The Judgement Day
The Shaking and quaking of earth, the splitting and blasting of heavens
The undeniable promise of the Lord shall happens
Unmounting of the mountains and outbursting ...
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Categories:
nursling, allah, bible, death, judgement,
Form: Couplet
Three and Thirty Springs
...Two and twenty springs
thick boughs and fragile twigs
hued in foilage's deep green
amidst the blossomed serene
pods burst,floated in wind,our seeds
and thousands and more leaves
drunk in life...
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Categories:
nursling, lost love, nature, sad
Form: Personification
Love's Brew
...Another turtle in the sun
Or nightingale perched on a tree;
Another day whose course has run
For living things, for you and me.
Another nursling stirs anew,
Its dull fate longing to defy;
An...
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Categories:
nursling, love, nature, time,
Form: Rhyme
Little One
...baby
powdered, pampered
crying, smiling, crawling
bambino, bairn, nursling, nipper
playing, laughing, sleeping
cuddled, cherished
child...
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Categories:
nursling, childhood, family, love, mother
Form: Diamante