Trees
...The weeping willows
Their widow's veil of leaves
Trailing sadly in the stream
Pungent spicy peppercorn trees
Their green feathery hair
Festooned with pink beads
Crooked old oaks
Their g...
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Categories:
peppercorn, care, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Divine Madness
...Salt cascaded across sharp jagged edges of obsidian glass, forgotten but never in the past. Prominent and worn ,used and torn
Once to plague your sin-laden body. twice more as an act of revenge. N...
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Categories:
peppercorn, 9th grade, anxiety, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Peppercorns
...If each peppercorn was a life,
each is saddled in surrender
of shunless damnation.
They dwell in anguish--
death row prisoners.
They huddle together
awaiting torsion
as the grinder rends
the ...
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Categories:
peppercorn, life,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Seems Out of Place
...
Today,
nothing seems out of place.
The river is at ease between
its banks, those four swans
are meant to be there,
suddenly emerging
from the shadows beneath
the bridge and into a bright ...
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Categories:
peppercorn, dog, morning, river, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
i hope one day i get the opportunity to flee on horseback
...i ordered at the bar in archbishop's rig
two pork sausages
baked beans
strawberry bear fruit snack
orange juice
meat free burger
r white's raspberry lemonade
bangers and mash
pepsi
corn w...
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Categories:
peppercorn, december, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Scarlet Roses
...
"But when you showed me what happiness looked like, I shook harder, sobbed, wailed and bawled; tore at your clothes, your perfect, perfect face, and said, "This could never be mine."" - the poet.
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Categories:
peppercorn, death, grief, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Elegy
Her Wishes
...solitude
. . . quiet
black peppercorn
on a ribbon
of tagliatelle
I, on my path
sinuous striding
impelled by you
impaled by you...
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Categories:
peppercorn, analogy, earth, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
No Other Place
...A gentle wind combs the long tresses
of peppercorn trees and brings
a sense of ease, the soft stroking
of a morning to slowly awaken
drowsy souls from sleep.
I enter the space and take in
th...
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Categories:
peppercorn, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
An Unexpected Vacation With My Sweets and a Travelling Record Player
...sitting in front of my record player
i am glad that i fixed it and that i found some 45s and some 78s
my excitement builds as i sift through all of the new discoveries
i am in my element
all i ne...
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Categories:
peppercorn, growth, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
What We Do On Thanksgivings Day
...Ocean’s seagulls are magical the older woman thought.
Her cat was thinking a seagull sandwich is what he ought.
Each on a beach chair, they sat in silence side by side.
Each with their own thought...
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Categories:
peppercorn, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Admiral of All At Sea Built From Wood On the Hanging Tree
...So this is where the trail ends
in a long forgoten paper town
Flipping dirty mattress in the ghetto turning tricks for matchsticks all for money lending
Because we born unto it like scarlet v...
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Categories:
peppercorn, slam,
Form: Free verse
Maybe I Need a Sweet Change
...maybe i need a sweet change
driving down an avenue
looking at all new things
digging cherry flavored scenes
chicken kabob feeling
taco salad nature
wish for peppercorn ranch waterfall
i will e...
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Categories:
peppercorn, cute, day, dream,
Form: Free verse
Piper Nigrum
...one sneeze too many
seasoned grilled bacon slices
a flowering vine
Piper nigrum (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually...
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Categories:
peppercorn, nature,
Form: Haiku
Making Guacamole
...Round and smooth
orange red
playing sunset
in azure pail
holding hands
with moonlight
slices
gifts of pearls
from the earth
dancing peppers
hot and horned
kicking out
garlic smell
sun...
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Categories:
peppercorn, food,
Form: Free verse
White Witches In the Wind
...Up the dark and barricaded staircase
With a monitor well focused between their legs
They came to digest an Ego
Caress ten long fingers aflame at the tips
Imbibe bright juice
Heal a chequered hea...
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Categories:
peppercorn, allegory, animal, celebrity, desire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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