Ghost Orchid, Violet
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"Ghost Orchid, Violet"
plumes of purple blue
like a burning bruise, spear through my mind
the heart waits for the fall Evermore
with open palms it’s bright core foreve...
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Categories:
petalled, muse,
Form: Narrative
Soul Rose Fulcrum
... my soul-rose has a fulcrum
sometimes
veined petals spread a c R o Ss
skies unknown
thorns ready
for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionat...
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Categories:
petalled, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Bird-of-Paradise
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Silent warblers perch as garden’s crooners
With crest-petalled wings flapping as banners
All day long they exude unfading light
That no woeful glooms conceal their brightness.
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Categories:
petalled, flower,
Form: Quatrain
Hope
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Hope, is in the evensong
That lifts us to a new high
Its the reason to hold our breath
To laugh, to smile, to sigh.
Hope is a whistled tune
That flutters around our head
The words that com...
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Categories:
petalled, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Some Other Poet, White Iris
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“Some Other Poet, White Iris”
When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction,
my eyes are the eyes of another staring back at me,
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Categories:
petalled, muse,
Form: Free verse
Fading Rose
... When love blossoms, in full bloom, the rose of bright
scarlet dances with sculptured petalled passion
as alluring fragrance enchants to ignite
senses and heart aplenty with no ratio...
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Categories:
petalled, lost love, rose,
Form: Rispetto
A Ballade of Easter
...Leaves longing on settled limbs, tongues of green
savoring sweetened rays of saffron Sun,
claim this crowning hall a new day to be.
Mother's morning prayers hath long begun,
first, lo...
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Categories:
petalled, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
do -do - DO-DO-ITSU
...An albertine goodbye
a delicate petalled rose
flutters slowly from on high,
upon the green sward,to lie-
dying sans a sigh...
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Categories:
petalled, word play,
Form: Dodoitsu
This Garden, And This Hour Through
...To lose you, seeing
One so immersed
In a light, silken petalled
As soft dispersed
Least concerning if
So clearly fair
But scented for the freesia
One's presence there!...
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Categories:
petalled, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to the Desert Flower
...Be there a time
that flowed the aura 'neath
the breadth that holds the weight
of thee,
does beauty walks
atop your sliding granules
of trinket feet and painted nails rob few
of the...
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Categories:
petalled, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Ode
Song of The American Beauty Rose No 3: ABAB
...Opulent indulgence amenities
generously upload green thumb senses.
Greenhouse cautions region known as frost tease.
A pastime cores, aloof clock condenses,
held their grounds by abductions amateu...
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Categories:
petalled, appreciation, beauty, flower, imagery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Upon Evening and Exotic Shores
...Upon evening and exotic shores,
I feel the mist of your hair,
Your hips,
Of the sweetest crescents,
Dance like a ballerina,
With an irises love,
And its blush of lavendars,
Serenading vases ...
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Categories:
petalled, beauty, hair, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Tanka Rimed
...in an albertine goodbye
a delicate petalled rose
dying sans a sigh-
flutters slowly from on high
to the green sward,to lie...
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Categories:
petalled, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Sisyphus In Love
...“Sisyphus in love”
stuck in a forever
flowering field
of oddly
even
petalled daisies
day in and day out
plucking and chanting
she loves me
she loves me
not...
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Categories:
petalled, color,
Form: Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Iv
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU IV
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
The moon
hovering above the snow-capped mountains
rained down hailstones
—Sekitei Hara, loose transl...
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Categories:
petalled, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku
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