Ohio Sea Song
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Where the groundhog has chewed the chain link
I slip through a brittle-boned hedge, and I am there
where geese sail a puddle-deep fog.
We taste the sea in its brine-washed ripples
splas...
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Categories:
paddles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Water Margins
...Dawn, a bed comes ashore,
dripping and fog laden.
Tuna sandwiches float
on foaming waves of nausea,
aqueous globs of salty oils,
surface. Punctured sea-dreams
float; flabby and flatulent.
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Categories:
paddles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Until We Meet Again
...Rowing with golden paddles
The water glides with quiet grace
Ripples shimmer like scattered diamonds
Smooth sailing with no thought of Winter
Summer forgets by design
Winter does not ask permi...
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Categories:
paddles, change,
Form: Free verse
Sisters In Poetry
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Two sisters born afar from my terrain
one rising near Taj Mahal ‘s glorious dome ,
another hopping on lanes of maple trees;
still, poetry traces their heartfelt rays
enduring continenta...
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Categories:
paddles, dedication, friendship,
Form: Imagism
Water sings a lilting lullaby
...Hear Ye!
the babbles of brook flowing on by.
the fizzy hiss of foam floating on tide.
the howls of a waterfall crying into sky.
the raging roar of waves crashing on beach.
the pitter-patter raps...
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Categories:
paddles, water,
Form: Free verse
Dreams and Hearts
...a serene lake on a moonlight night,
as she paddles her canoe away,
far into distance where it shines bright,
in gentle breeze water lilies sway.
her hopes are lit she would meet her dreams,
that...
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Categories:
paddles, beautiful, desire, dream, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Age of Terror
...(“Utopia and Terror Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)
The Age of Terror
It’s a new reign of terror
With demon hit squads roaming the earth
To lurk on roof tops, hedges
And parking lot...
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Categories:
paddles, humanity, sick, society,
Form: Narrative
Read That Twice
...In vast realm between both false realities
efforts of a strained bowel movement collapse
like the arithmetic dreams of abacus beads.
Arthritic persistence contemplates procrastination
while stil...
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Categories:
paddles, math, moon, space,
Form: Free verse
Divine favours
...Success paddles forth on a teak-crafted boat,
God’s blessings now shine in a glow to adore.
Your foes only watch as your fortunes take note,
Your blessings now match every sand by the shore.
God ...
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Categories:
paddles, blessing, fruit, love, success,
Form: Quintain (English)
Riverbed
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Puffy white clouds
Like pieces of
Floating cotton
Shifts silently across
the blue sky
Birds of morning
Sing songs in the
distance
Fish swim in crystal water
River flows gently
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Categories:
paddles, nature,
Form: Pastoral
Whitewater
...Foaming water, hard to see,
raft rocketing rapidly,
constant roaring on the air,
everything soaked, toe to hair,
paddles plunge and the bow shifts
slowly through the angry mists,
shoots past ro...
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Categories:
paddles, adventure, boy, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Overlooked
...Overlooked-by Dominique Smith
Can you cry the ocean so those in need can come over with a boat? No but I ca- Can you fix a window with the scraps of band-aid? No, But I ca- Can you burn like the ...
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Categories:
paddles, 8th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Better Late Than Never
...On March the 5th I wrote a poem –
The title was “Dear Jill,”
Which was a plea that maybe
The First Lady would help fill.
Of course, she never saw it
And my quest was not unique,
But had she ...
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Categories:
paddles, political,
Form: Rhyme
touch my words
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the glow of the sun and ripple of water
paddles stroking blue
on a quest
bird songs echoing
taste, smell the movement of air
with thoughts positive floating
a storm
on shore my canoe she...
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Categories:
paddles, introspection,
Form: Suzette Prime
A Dew Drooping Dawn
...A reluctant dawn
predicts a heel dragging day.
The sun slinks away from the sky
with dawn cast eyes.
Pond ducks swim slow,
as amnesia paddles them
in nowhere circles.
Lead tinted tears,
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Categories:
paddles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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