5 Haiku
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quiet morning _
petals love the watering hand
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shadows of a tamarind tree _
your company
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jute bangles _
smell of perspiring hands
4.
light warmth _
cups love having t...
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Categories:
pale yellow, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
pale yellow, muse,
Form: Narrative
My Old Holden Astra
...24 seven,
Eight,
Nine,
Ten to the second.
Heaven ate my pancreas,
Please pretend eleven likes me.
Twelve times its elapsed,
Survival wasn’t even likely.
Shelved minds,
And a brain co...
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Categories:
pale yellow, age, color, confidence, extended
Form: Free verse
Wall
...I lie down in my four-poster bed,
facing the pale yellow wall.
The same that I see above,
behind my headboard,
opposite me.
I drown in the sickly pale.
I dare not turn around
to f...
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Categories:
pale yellow, extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Stardust on Autumn Leaves
...pale yellow shards of brittle glass
shatter under my feet
as I stroll along this grey patchwork of concrete
and if the world stutters precarious on its spurious axis,
I pay it no mind
the ice of...
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Categories:
pale yellow, autumn, goodbye, howl, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Animating Innate Vibrance
...What might be your perfect way
to awake with joy and gratitude each morning
within this new day
old way
of opportunity and mourning?
This morning's epic re-awakening
into Beloved Paradise
op...
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Categories:
pale yellow, health, integrity, light, moon,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Moribund
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Pale blue, pale yellow, pale green.
Flowers die,
Plants, birds, animals,
Why do you need a name?
There will be dust, storm, cyclone.
In there, what will you wish for?
This trail, t...
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Categories:
pale yellow, environment,
Form: Free verse
A smile that never fades
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The pale yellow sky, reminds me of a smile that never fades
From a greeting etched in memory, immune to words like cutting blades
The tall emerald trees are drawn toward the layers of light
A ...
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Categories:
pale yellow, color, light, peace, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Why Is The Sky Blue? Asked Jimmy
...Why is the sky blue? Asked Jimmy
Fantastic question!
Why indeed?
Why did The Creator
Whether God or Science or a Scientific God
Choose blue
Instead of forest green, pale yellow, or maroon?
I...
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Categories:
pale yellow, blue, child, father son,
Form: Free verse
Harvest
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shaking maracas
in the pale yellow moonlight
dancing with the stars
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Categories:
pale yellow, celebration, moon,
Form: Haiku
Sweet Rose
...“Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best.” – William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Sweet Rose, for ages you have blessed the human race
with your beauty, elegance and grace.
You show yo...
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Categories:
pale yellow, rose,
Form: Ode
a town i knew
...A Town I knew
He was born in a narrow-minded town where a Christian
the party was in power, and there were rules for acceptable
behavior by stern people who liked to tell others what
is right,...
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Categories:
pale yellow, anger, courage, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Sienna in Season
...I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.
I worked daily at this irresistible p...
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Categories:
pale yellow, autumn, beautiful, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
The Signs That They All Ignored
...Nobody cared.
You could tell from the cracked and broken windows.
You could tell from the maggots and moths in the kitchen cabinets.
You could tell from the nails scattered across the dirt-caked f...
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Categories:
pale yellow, 11th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Rose Meadow
...A meadow of roses...awash in colors, from pale pink to deepest crimson,
lavender, pale yellow tinged in pink, to coral, silver and bronze.
With brick walkways that capture dappled sunligh...
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Categories:
pale yellow, beauty, color, rose,
Form: Free verse
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