Glass Slipper in Moonshine
...Midnight came and went as perilous as a wolf howling at the moon.
—by poet
Tease of time, palpitating pearls,
she’s flirting with the bluest eyes,
framed in heaven’s clouds. Girlish...
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Categories:
palpitating, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories:
palpitating, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
She said her name was Amahle
...Mere gaze to her direction, goosebumps perforates my skin
There's something out of this cosmos in her aura.
Sense and meaningful in me,
at loggerheads trying to define her.
Tap into my senses,...
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Categories:
palpitating, beautiful, cute love, dedication,
Form: Free verse
The Victorian House By The Small Dogwood Tree
...There stands the Victorian house
by the small dogwood tree I planted at the age
of nineteen thinking of a colorful spring;
what a subtle joy palpitating inside
at a short distance, before Lassie ...
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Categories:
palpitating, butterfly, dog, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
FISTFUL
...Fistful butterflies sway along with the wind.
Ever frolicking through the vibrant desires.
Fistful sand slipping down in haste.
Unbothered about the delays and tussles around.
Fistful days fl...
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Categories:
palpitating, cheer up, confusion, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Yet I Cling Long Version
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories:
palpitating, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Frostbitten Heartstrings and Drunken Truths
...My eyes couldn’t help
But wander
And smile at every passing inch
Aimlessly following the walls
And your voice
Throughout the house you lay your head at night
It was cozy
Decorated d...
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Categories:
palpitating, angst, body, december, deep,
Form: Free verse
Summer's Endless Nights
...Thinking of tonight
Finessing of the moon
I hear my own heart palpitating
In my every thought
All tender mercies hot murky
Mercury thoughts summer's
Magic you know as much as I
July heart's...
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Categories:
palpitating, heart, imagery, july, life,
Form: Sonnet
When I Can'T Find My Pen
...When I can't find my pen it
Becomes a pestering particular
Problematic position of such
Preposterous proportions
I'm liable to search the deepest
End of the lake in search of this
lo...
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Categories:
palpitating, deep, devotion, fate, fear,
Form: Alliteration
The Timing of Lovers Palpitating Heartbeat
...Tell me lover please what intimately
makes you tick
So I can summon forth bye whatsoever
means
I may intricately hand craft a bespoke clock
That pulses and count's time in accordance
to...
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Categories:
palpitating, love,
Form: Free verse
Thank You Lord For My Home
...Some people live in cardboard boxes
others between buildings
Certain individuals beneath a tent
others under bridges, or close to dumpster bins
Palpitating life on the street,
you never kn...
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Categories:
palpitating, appreciation, house,
Form: Free verse
This Picture Ain'T Pretty
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She ain’t the belle of the ball anymore
She’s not the picture
hanging on the wall
behind every dorm door
Miss Best Beauty
is no longer
the fave social media queen
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Categories:
palpitating, beauty, imagery, parody, people,
Form: Burlesque
The Devil Wears Titles
...The Devil Wears Titles:
President, Senator, New's
Anchor. The Devil can look
spiffy and sharp: a big city
Governor quoting scriptures,
her voice, soothing and melodic,
though a lying Harp – Th...
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Categories:
palpitating, bible, child abuse, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Love
...We cannot see love;
We can only feel it nor touch it.
We see its affection through emotions
The beauty; it take thee to utopia onshore.
Being in ocean and feeling of cool wind.
It can go deep...
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Categories:
palpitating, love,
Form: Rhyme
Shade and Shadows
...Shadows walk the land
beneath the clouded blue painted sky
as winds blow light but fast on the fly
the shadows fall;
spectres beneath the mighty oaks
haunting echoes of time asleep and woke
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Categories:
palpitating, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
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