love yawns at dawn
...Immersed in dreams deep,
some fairies oversleep,
atop fragrant sunflowers
and then they shape shift,
sharing love’s gift;
divine bliss shower that empowers....
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Categories:
oversleep, fairy, flower, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Ground Hog on Groundhog Day
...Groundhog promised he would never oversleep again.
On February second they sent out the annoying wren.
He could not rouse groundhog from his slumber.
So Mom and Dad went over, in a wagon-lumber.
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Categories:
oversleep, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Start the Day
...Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a decent hour (11:30) but ...
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Categories:
oversleep, angst, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Zen Mode
...powers we seek
toys to play with
requires identity
to indulge awhile
in lucid dreams
let’s not oversleep
26-March-2023...
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Categories:
oversleep, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Kam Be For the Storm
...My fear is not of Joe with hair of grey, mind in disarray, coherence at bay.
Main concern not about his overall knowledge lack, or how he doesn’t know Iran from Iraq, or cause he wannabe black
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Categories:
oversleep, america, patriotic, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
My Guardian Angels
...I was deep into a dream this morning…lost within its fog…when I was awakened rather suddenly by the barking of a dog.
I immediately recognized the bark of our dog Whitman… I should have felt wond...
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Categories:
oversleep, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmically Deep
...COSMICALLY DEEP
Did the garden weep
With the ungrateful sweep
Of their covetous hands? Deep
Was the pit of their pickpocket. Sleep
Thought merciful and kind, allowed not a peep
From their ros...
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Categories:
oversleep, christian,
Form: Monorhyme
Joyful Happy Snow Cone Day
...Joyful happy snow cone day.
Laughter. Singing. Skipping.
Every child who has almost perfect attendance.
Ninety-three percent was the cut off percent.
I felt really sorry for the two or three ch...
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Categories:
oversleep, parents, school,
Form: Light Verse
My Baby Behind
...Alert all night
So to not oversleep
As dawn ended night
My eyes wouldn’t keep
We managed attendance
A moment to spare
But, greeted the entrance
And shrills filled the air
Quickly consumed...
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Categories:
oversleep, 1st grade, anxiety, change,
Form: Rhyme
She Always Cancels
...It is midnight when I remember a friend is coming early in the morning to play in the studio with me.
I really should go to bed.
Which friend? My husband asks.
They are all the same to him. He ...
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Categories:
oversleep, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Sun Day
...SUN DAY
A
Sun Day
Beautiful
A Pick Me Up
I Sip On My Cup
Suddenly Clouds Appear
Rain Splashes Like Spit On Glass
HailThundersAndHitsTheEarthHard
I Cower
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Categories:
oversleep, imagination, storm,
Form: Free verse
Without You
...Without you, everything I do
loses value every day.
Habitual things that mattered,
yesterday,
are hard to do, today.
Yoga in the morning,
even my daily poetry,
have suddenly lost their mean...
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Categories:
oversleep, memory,
Form: Free verse
Tightrope To Love - Or Asylum
...Walking on a tightrope to you
Strung up between high stakes
Much higher than my fear of heights
But my courage needn’t go to war
When my heart knows the path is right
It’s a simple matter of tra...
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Categories:
oversleep, adventure, crazy, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
How To Be a Man
...Take out the trash on Tuesday and remember the white bags are recyclable;
Don’t mix the trash with the pig food, we’re saving the world;
Put the yard waste on the curb on Friday after you finish ...
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Categories:
oversleep, dedication, environment, farm, hero,
Form: Free verse
My Bones Will Finally Get Their Cloak
...Memories are walls
desecrated by graffiti of remembrance
well intentioned people
all around
and me
playing that „warm rabbit“ game
(take a guess who the rabbit is)
it feels like I'm one ...
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Categories:
oversleep, life,
Form: Free verse
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