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Fading Photographs




The most honored woman of her place;
I’m not fortunate enough to see her face!
She is none other than my loving mother;
People say, one can’t find like her another!
I know not, what mother’s love is all about!
Does God have any sense? I always doubt!
The lady in the photograph, I was taught,
Was my mother! Oh, a great

Categories: parading, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Beauty Parading Feathers

she wears feathers better than a peacock
More of them than a revered Apache chief
Feeling their strength, understanding they have flown
Their ancestry coaxes her to shine her light

She parades their beauty down the catwalk
Showing them off, as they show her off.
Other models gawk, appreciating her designs
Where everything is moving and fluttering

Categories: parading, fashion,
Form: Blank verse

Parading For Everyone

she was frail on the inside
never letting it show
but behind closed doors
there was no need for masks

no games were played to try and drown the silence
just a low languid longing echoing on through the night



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Categories: parading, games, lonely, longing, night,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Love Is Parading Around On the Stove

Love is parading around on the stove tonight
Cooking beanie weanies for the likes of me.
The smell makes me smile.
And he makes me giddy.
For fifty-five years I have been in love with this fifteen-year-old boy.

He is grinning like a sailor who just fell off the back of a whale.
He is seeing my dancing legs on the

Categories: parading, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Parading Plumage

Pretty peacocks parade puffy plumage,
painted peach, pink, purple...
Patterns preview picturesque poses,
pleasing peahens' passion.
Peacocks' plumage presents protection,
potential predators pass promptly.

Categories: parading, animal, color, nature,
Form: Alliteration

Parading Into Purgatory

Parading openly into purgatory
    singing Irish folk songs
      smoking cigarettes, not joints
              one vaping

Appreciating our comradeship
         Accepting whatever will be in a luxurious way

Categories: parading, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Police Corps

P-arading at ceremonies, protecting and preventing conflicts and violence
O-fficiating official outings and offering guides and shields
L-anguishing your own at any point of call
I-nvestigating initials of the inevitable crimes and dooms
C-onfident to move to meet flaming fuse and fights
E-xpectations too huge to meet …’where were the police?’

C-rimes deter your presence in humility and respect
O-bvious are the

Categories: parading, 3rd grade, conflict, courage,
Form: Acrostic

Parading Blue

Tides, they arise overshore
along with fears, they reverse overboard
her cloaks, they float in their eternal blue
with her flawless gulf carried out through.

Those emerald hairs, they dance along
as her salty breath , they slap across
 chords escaping through their entangled twines
that symphony, they engulf my senses.

Those ships, they riding on her back
never was sure about

Categories: parading, love, nature, sea, longing,
Form: I do not know?

Parading the Unkempt

Countless in our days
Of lives seize with easy.
Alas! Guns off fashion
For many of them
Fathoms its symptoms.
Enters the Polished clean hands
Reddish with stabbing ,
Answers they have not.

Dollars dump in bin
In search of them 
With forensic eyes
And better long nose
To sniff out the doers.
With fanfare, we welcome the
Three wise men from white color above.

A vote lost in

Categories: parading, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Free verse