I miss
..." Tortured metaphors
spilling from tequila lips,
t i p t o e on my pulse ~
breaking in an arced smile
of the...
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Categories:
pencilled, dark, deep, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Lily Letters of Jasmine
...
Dear grandma,
you were my litchi s u n r i s e,
encasing stars in honeydews of h e a l i n g,
as d a w n s used to wake up
from deep s l u m b e r with
th...
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Categories:
pencilled, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Vision
...At this dawn of "bon voyage",
after million escapades of
blindfolded fate, I'm trespassing
through the pirouetting pigments
of fading frolics and
windsurfing towards rose-oiled
beams of gl...
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Categories:
pencilled, color, emotions, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Sea Cave's Lee
...All words and wonder, wobbling copper green
Foam and guano floating
In the sea cave’s lee
A flock of gannets raucous on a rocky pile
And the ever-growing echo as the men came by
Climbed...
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Categories:
pencilled, adventure, dream, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Pale Daughters
...Pale daughters
don't follow their familial duties
or wash behind their ears
laved in white light,
they sport a smile, when necessary,
compelled by an accidental mischief
pencilled in exclusion,...
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Categories:
pencilled, age, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Similitude
...They were in her mind,
She pencilled them in her heart,
They came forth from her,
Asimov’s children,
She bore them,
One after other came forth,
Generation after generation,
They were transfor...
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Categories:
pencilled, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Walls
...Read the room,
Its paintings and inscriptions,
Read the room,
The volume of its expressions,
Read the room,
The doors to many unspoken words,
Read the room,
The thoughts veiled in the
minds ...
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Categories:
pencilled, art, color, poets,
Form: Free verse
Marking the Days
...I read about a mom and son
Who chose to mark the days
Since Covid struck by making cranes
In most creative ways.
One paper crane a day displayed
And posted as amassed
Allowed them to acknow...
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Categories:
pencilled, appreciation, time,
Form: Rhyme
Letters To the Lady
...Troop ships loading, crowded docks
Mums and sisters waving off
Go with keepsakes, golden locks
Some men hug while many doff
Eric, soldier single stands
Beryl, lonesome widow cares
Many kissin...
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Categories:
pencilled, mother son, war, world
Form: Rhyme
The Bookshop Upstairs
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Try leave behind "Book Of The Week"
And head upstairs where floorboards creak.
Where people tilt their heads to look
At every spine on every book.
Where murderers and secret lovers
Plot an...
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Categories:
pencilled, books, places,
Form: Rhyme
True Cowboy
...Tan leather boots with fancy stitching
Butterscotch vest with pencilled fringe
Polished black Stetson size eight and three quarters
Faded denim shirt with copper snaps
Silver oversized belt buckl...
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Categories:
pencilled, jealousy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Song From Beyond the Stars Part 3 Early Exchanges
...[R-F] = Roundling facsimile
[H-Z] = Human: Zenaide
[G-G] = Gaia-Google - Earth's world-wide internet mind
Dr. Zenaide Arnau, team leader of L 4 investigation
U.N. assignment to Space Station ...
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Categories:
pencilled, adventure, destiny, future, science
Form: Verse
Head On
...Heart beats in rhythm to snowflakes
Cascading in tune to my reality
Like a train travelling through time with no track
Overwelmed by it's vivid fertile surroundings
Colours pencilled in my ...
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Categories:
pencilled, endurance, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
... by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes the time too fretful on your hands
next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all
th...
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Categories:
pencilled, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Dragon Patterns
...This was inspired by an amazing drawing by Suzie
I thought I had drawn a pattern
From the image in my mind
But with no shape or form
Or reason I could find
But then it started moving
With ...
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Categories:
pencilled, magic,
Form: I do not know?
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