Perking Poems

Premium MemberLIGHT THAT LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS

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Light* that lights all lights continues to glow 
triumphant midst woe toward jubilant today 'til tomorrow.

Blest light wakes soul up 
perking with God's prop.

Divine light wafts ...
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Categories: perking, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Couplet

Premium Memberflower garden

...roses and daisies
perking up the garden fine
beautiful colors...
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Categories: perking, flower,
Form: Haiku


Premium Memberhaiku 101

...the skies overhead
as airplanes come and depart
crisscrossing smoke trails

the smell of coffee
perking in the kitchen
wafting on the air

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Categories: perking, sometimes,
Form: Haiku

Premium Memberdaybreak

...Daybreak ignited 
strong morning coffee perking 
mornings beginning...
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Categories: perking, morning,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberMilk Time

...coffee pot is perking 
I open fridge door for milk
 cats waiting for milk...
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Categories: perking, cat,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberUnwritten Absence

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She came into our lives unbidden, 
A pleasant surprise, 
Her open heart was never hidden
From her soulful eyes;

She won our hearts with her gentle love, 
Always filled with grace...
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Categories: perking, dog, missing you, pets,
Form: Rhyme

You, the Sun, the Power

...YOU, THE SUN, THE POWER

The sun rushes quickly over trees and boulders 
across rivers and fields of different blooming flowers
it knows not shadows or shade 
it comes to my doorstep and halts
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Categories: perking, encouraging, faith, people, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Thanks For the Challenge's Chance

...Kelogb 10 (6-7-6)

For Emmanuel Adédayò Òjéládé. 



When for all the long lines,  
Eyes don't catch up the design 
Of all I had combined

And in little shy glance, 
The eyes travel in spr...
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Categories: perking, 1st grade, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCoffee Crumb Cake Critique

...*Image of Freed Fountain Pen by Pixabay.


Coffee Crumb Cake Critique


Coffee, dawn's waker-upper, cause to rhyme,
The second cup broadens your eyes, sublime,

Noontime, pot per...
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Categories: perking, analogy, endurance, motivation, writing,
Form: Couplet

Write Or Work

...Writing and working, writing and working 
Staying busy but thoughts are lurking. 
So I pick up a pen, write a couple of them 
Recording and then more bloom in, such a bountiful stem. 
But really ...
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Categories: perking, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFor the E By the S By the E - Nursery Rhyme

...First heard the call when three.
Pet store said come and see
and mommy did agree,
every child should have a puppy.

Wanted to get you all the toys,
while blue still ok for boys,
even got us pe...
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Categories: perking, animal, caregiving, children, dog,
Form: Rhyme

Four Point Eight: Limerence

...He's now the color the dawn wears for me to behold each morning
no matter how bland and monotonous is the rising

He's the serenading hello conveyed by the birds' early lilt
when I'm amongst limp...
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Categories: perking, heart, hello, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake

...Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake

No matter, of course, how many times I asked,
The answer came, “No!”  Thus,
At age 9, at the start of summer, I searched
Our not especially well-kept house and yard
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Categories: perking, age, dog, friend, life,
Form: Free verse

Solstice

...There is something about my voice
that no one hears
yet in the background, real life
appears, dozing, reading,
working, talking,
deaf to my cheery perking,
silent to my reality…
it’s that way ...
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Categories: perking, absence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAwakenings,A Senryu Trilogy

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                       Awakenings
                   ~A Senryu Trilogy~

            morning mix, blue haze
            cat calling for her breakfast
            sun in window pe...
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Categories: perking, morning,
Form: Senryu

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