Dolphins and Whales at Play
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The humpbacks rolled in the morning light.
Grey whales churned the seas silver-bright.
Dolphins dancing in their foamy trails.
Riding the bows of frolicking whales.
Heave Ho, the sea runs fre...
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Categories:
pectoral, language, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Stars In the Dark
...Pain
Expunge
Green darner
Waltzing in mist
at midnight cobalt.
You're crazy by night sky.
the stars upon which you stare.
despite those shortsighted white specks,
Spruce-colore...
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Categories:
pectoral, appreciation, creation, dark, stars,
Form: Etheree
Storymaking
...Story telling
seems good and sufficient therapy
for those who feel not so patient
with inefficiencies of story making.
RightWing dominant telling
yelling allows remarkable capital stagnation
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Categories:
pectoral, caregiving, destiny, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Tench
...There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilli...
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Categories:
pectoral, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Sacramento River Wordscape
...Redding Poem 2
"Sacramento River WordScape"
These descendent waters swim like mad lagoon fish,
Heading decidedly south with a fiery mindless turn,
Their cool liquid urgencies reaching to all ...
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Categories:
pectoral, freedom, nature,
Form: Free verse
Seahorses
...Swimming side by side in unison among red coral,
Entwining occasionally in their colourful pre-dawn dance,
A pair of small creatures resembling
Horses of the sea
Or perhaps Pegasuses - with pec...
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Categories:
pectoral, animal,
Form: Acrostic
Desperadas
...Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the sec...
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Categories:
pectoral, change, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Fantasy Fish In a Fantasy Ocean Contest
...Fantasy Fish In a Fantasy Ocean Contest
Sponsor: Julia Ward
From reality to imaginary,
Fantasized by unrestricted reason,
Mental images s...
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Categories:
pectoral, fantasy, fish, ocean,
Form: Quatrain
Vision Quest
...VISION QUEST
The Sioux chief Brown Eagle taught me self-respect
And I saw my life as an Englishman must have greater purpose,
And that these "savages" were actually my saviors.
The spirit of ...
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Categories:
pectoral, adventure, imagination, native american,
Form: Verse
Synonym?
...As I flicker speedily through the channels on my TV screen,
I pause because a man now lifts and anvil twice my weight above his head,
Which begs the question:
What is strength? And who put Webster...
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Categories:
pectoral, life, mother, passion, thank
Form: Free verse