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Glasswinged Sorceress

...When nylon nights
trade crystal colours 
in the stalls of nimble 
butterfly wings, 
I blossom as an 
irenic origami 
fervently fabricated 
with snowflakes of 
greedy gloom, 
stealing royal v...

Categories: patchworks, angst, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Winter Skylight

...A porch light full moon glimpses me through patchworks of cotton candy clouds....

Categories: patchworks, beautiful, january, moon,
Form: Monoku

Moss Garden

...Moss on the shaded ledge
   spreads across the rooftop of the shed
   gluing shut the shingles edge,
sun reflects the spurt
   lemon yellows, lime green patchworks
   gathered quilted coverlets ...

Categories: patchworks, analogy, garden, green,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Eyes

...
"My Eyes"



Green glass 
broken and polished 
washed in on a storm 

from a tempestuous Ocean
briny and
stinging

deep deep deep
as a jour...

Categories: patchworks, love,
Form: Romanticism

A Patchwork

...farm patchworks
greens and gold scattered
on sides of highway


posted on August 6, 2018...

Categories: patchworks, beauty, color, farm, nature,
Form: Haiku

The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Ii

...Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy...

Categories: patchworks, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Grandma Aesop's Apples - Overture

...My dearest one -
you oft traversed my well tended garden.
A panacea I personally created
to massage your ailing id.
A garden similar to the wondrous patchworks
found in Eden.

A recreational p...

Categories: patchworks, lifeme, grandmother, me,
Form: Free verse

Grandma's Quilt

...God blessed me with a grandma of many talents,
And one of them always left me thoroughly amazed.
It was the way she collected square scraps of cloth
To make quilts that seemed worthy of praise.
E...

Categories: patchworks, childhood, family, me,
Form: Rhyme

Declare the Rising

...Springs blossoms are                  
Riding in on the chariot of achromatic clouds
Sweeping across the vast skies
Covered in shrouds Of March winds

Tree tops wave and swaying in greeting 
An...

Categories: patchworks, happiness, nature, seasons, may,
Form: Free verse

Marbled Vanity

...I live my life in moderation
so I can afford the extravagance 
of dawdling in dreams.

The price of creativity is idle time spent
longing for depth, 
with words in my hand
and though there's n...

Categories: patchworks, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Free verse