clouds
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CloUdmisty for Me
cloudscape hold space
aS 888 cLOuDs •••••cloUDsss
waVes w...
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Categories:
oud, analogy, blue, color, environment,
Form: Other
Fulcrum of a rose
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Written: June 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry: track where lies the fulcrum of the fragrance of a rose, then likewise find within your soul.
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Categories:
oud, analogy, cheer up, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Muse of Dusk
...She walks where day and night entwine,
A whispered breeze through aging pine,
With eyes that hold the fading light,
And secrets born from end of night.
A veil of roses, oud, and rain,
A kiss o...
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Categories:
oud, blessing, career, cat, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Under the sky that dissolves dogmas like the wind does sand
...Under the sky that dissolves dogmas like the wind does sand,
A canopy of empathy unfolds like an ancient tapestry,
Embroidered with clarity and illuminated by pure integrity,
Entangled in the fine...
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Categories:
oud, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
As we Metamorphose
...“being mistook we burnt the book
thoughts rest, we dwell in our heart’s nest
touched by spirit, our body shook
by God’s light blest as we undressed” ~ Unseeking Seeker
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Categories:
oud, destiny, devotion, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Beautiful Scent
...A magnificent flower or a beautiful tree are plants of different breed. You’ll smell their scent float in the air as you inhale to breathe.
An attractive smell is natures spell on every man or bea...
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Categories:
oud, beautiful, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Rhyme
Under My Umbrella
...Reluctantly
She shelters me
I don't wish to intrude
Her fragrance I must steal away
Bright lavender and oud
The pitter-patter
Of the rain
Disguising how my heart..
It flutters when she is s...
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Categories:
oud, beauty, longing, love hurts,
Form: Ekphrasis
Squirrels
...Superbly agile and acrobatic creatures.
Quirky zigzag moves and mannerisms.
Unique techniques for stealing seeds and nuts.
Incredibly strong front incisors that keep gr...
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Categories:
oud, animal, humorous, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Pactolus Has Gold
...Sabashtain Berlusconi made his
Presence Known
the Chant of
Pactolus the Magnificent
roar every where
He wore the strap of Honor
from
the Pergerus of Digulance'
the sacred beast of the fields
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Categories:
oud, music, myth, song, sports,
Form: Ballad
Four Cafes
...Riotous revellers' laughter drifts up from their apricot lit late night haunts, four cafes are notoriously avoided venues for overindulgent consumption of alcohol.
Across the street, from my thi...
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Categories:
oud, character, fashion,
Form: Prose
Dead Mans Shoes
...Harry has lived with us the entire eight years.
We did not know that agreeing to keep his shoes here was a big deal.
One day my husband said “I am throwing these oud!”
“We promised his widow!” I s...
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Categories:
oud, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Narrative
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Mak...
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Categories:
oud, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part One
...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET
THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART ONE
GIBRALTAR / DJEBEL-TARIQ 711 AD / 92 AH
In the eyes of the hawk
Djebel Musa to Djebel Tariq
is the tactical distance across the
tur...
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Categories:
oud, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
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Categories:
oud, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-Li
...Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now floodin...
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Categories:
oud, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Sonnet
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