Half Moon
...The pale half-moon,
like a swag of sheerest organdy,
adorns the sky...
an ornamental drape
on an ethereal window....
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Categories:
organdy, appreciation, beautiful, imagery, moon,
Form: Free verse
Red-Hot Pick-Up Valentine Day Line
...I've bought a whole pound of Red-Hot Candy
If you'd share it with me, would be handy
I'd offer a chocolate bar
But my thoughts have gone ajar
Seeing you draped in curtains org...
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Categories:
organdy, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Organdy
...Though you may stand amongst a crowd it's only you I see
Though you may sit across the aisle near you my soul doth be
Though you may sing amongst a group it's only you I hear
Though you may live a...
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Categories:
organdy, beauty, longing, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
A Memory
...A Memory
By Sy Roth
It didn’t come in like an invading horde of Mongols astride their horses.
It came like a Siren whispering a sweet song, blowing soft winds in my ear.
The old woman sat o...
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Categories:
organdy, memory,
Form: Free verse
Dreaming of Emily Dickinson
...What a dream
it was that done
in silk or organdy
as light as the wind ...
What a shower of poetry
had you to rain,
when you inebriated
in clerical verses ...
when you painted the
soul of the...
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Categories:
organdy, allegory, art, creation, dream,
Form: Free verse
I Am Blessed By These Things
...Angela, Andy, Amber, angels, ambience, attitudes, altitude, all-purpose flour.
Beds, breakfast, brightness, brevity, butter pecan ice cream, bald eagles.
Cali, Carolyn, Chelsea, creativity, compas...
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Categories:
organdy, blessing,
Form: Abecedarian
It Was All About the Sheets
...I remember organdy curtains swaying
Over our old double bed,
Made up with sheets fresh from the line,
Full of the perfumes of fresh air and ivory.
I remember the puff pillows, a wedding presen...
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Categories:
organdy, memory,
Form: Free verse
Mysterious Breezes and Winds
...Mysterious Breezes and Winds
Consider the breezes and how they blow
Organdy curtains across a lover’s bed;
The brush of air conditioning on a working head;
A chiffon dress fluttering with the b...
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Categories:
organdy, appreciation, introspection, wind,
Form: Verse
Breezes
...
Breezes
Consider little breezes and how they blow;
Organdy curtains cross a spring night bed;
The brush from an air conditioning vent
On a heated working head.
Chiffon dresses fl...
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Categories:
organdy, environment, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Organdy Dancer
...My organdy dancer
Aquarian child
Is always in fashion
Lights sweet flames of passion
When she dances for me
My crinoline princess
Has sensuous moves
That nothing conceals
And yet...
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Categories:
organdy, angel, beauty, emotions, fantasy,
Form: McWhirtle
Organdy Fog
...The golden sun at first hidden
By fog's silver organdy.
As clouds rise slowly in the east
A warm spring do foresee
The fog's silver shawl floats lightly
Coating hill, dale, and green
Its coat a...
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Categories:
organdy, nature,
Form: Verse
Autumn Colors
...Italian olive leaves metamorphoses now
Into exotic flowers beautiful burgundy
While another sycamore's exotic honey boughs
Reflects its gold from mirrowed glass organdy
Until the acorn sp...
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Categories:
organdy, seasons,
Form: Quintain (English)
Organdy Swirls
....
Organdy swirls
Aurora Borealis grace
Organdy swirls
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Categories:
organdy, imagination,
Form: Rondeau
Raven Now Among the Dead
....
The scent of Tube Roses
Is so overpowering
From the bouquet
That is on the casket
Allergeric nasal passages swelling
The dress that my family chose
...
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Categories:
organdy, death, depression, imagination, lost
Form: Free verse
Sun Versus Wind (Imagism)
...Winter clouds drift eastward
An organdy curtain in afternoon skies
For Brian Strand's Spaces Contest...
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Categories:
organdy, nature, sea, seasons
Form: Imagism
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