ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE
...ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinki...
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Categories:
pinking, 12th grade, mother, mother
Form: Haibun
THOSE WE LOVE
...Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor
ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the sciss...
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Categories:
pinking, 12th grade, love, mother,
Form: Haibun
PALEO PAIR
...PALEO PAIR
Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions
were our t...
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Categories:
pinking, age, allegory, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse
...I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad foo...
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Categories:
pinking, angst, dark, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Hitchcock
...I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind,
independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their...
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Categories:
pinking, fear,
Form: Haibun
Than-Bauk variation
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Here are a few more Than-Bauk, where I have used a particular letter-sound instead of a rhyme on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd syllables (lines 1,2,3) I find this to be a fun alternative to the limited ...
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Categories:
pinking, autumn, beauty, death, political,
Form: Than-Bauk
Nine Month Night
...Nine month night - light broke free like dawn.
In babe’s face, impassioned pinking.
From romance of wishful thinking -
Too many threads to count, forgone.
Potent, when God, she called upo...
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Categories:
pinking, birth,
Form: Quintilla
She Is Not Ugly In An Ugly Sweater
...La’Donna was a beauty, and most were jealous of her daily.
She can’t be all that! Argued my devil’s advocate cousin, Bailey.
Then he met her, and he knew what we were all thinking.
I noticed when ...
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Categories:
pinking, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
A Reverence In the Clouds
...Airplane strolls on, above the clouds that look like whitest snow
Unknown if this black shark has passengers or is a ghost ship though.
Blaze of the sun sparkles out in the form of an angels’ wings...
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Categories:
pinking, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Delicate Hue
...Blushing soft roses, filled with the smell of romance.
Beneath a flushing sky, as a rosy day comes to an end.
Pinking cheeks and a tender kiss.
Delicate heart candies and cookies top with adorable...
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Categories:
pinking, color, cute, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Afternoon In a Meadow
...Shy woods blush mahogany gold
Temperate wind's silky whisper
Stir pinking buds to waken from shade
Grasses' lush complexion freckled in yellow
Transforming mortal earth to hopeful heaven
Stretch...
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Categories:
pinking, appreciation, nature, summer, yellow,
Form: Free verse
An Empty Box
...An Empty Box
My oldest daughter got her diamond ring.
Brother Bob’s daughters choose next
Each reaching into the box
choosing some memento.
Grandchildren next.
I looked away
Telling my...
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Categories:
pinking, death, mother,
Form: Free verse
If I Were a Man
...If I Were a Man, I'd:
Never purchase another dress,
chop the heels off my stilettos,
burn every pantyhose in the house,
allow my ears to close their portals,
and use pin...
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Categories:
pinking, humor, woman,
Form: Free verse
Memories On Branches
...How did a cherry kiss? Bitter flower petals with sweet pistils.
So laden they act as halos while we breathe the love
in a pink hollow, silence sounding like taste, acting like epistle
to hold this...
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Categories:
pinking, age, autumn, home, love,
Form: Rhyme
Absolutes
...Absolutes
1
Darkness dominates
the earthly cycle at year’s end.
This is true
no matter how many fools
legislate otherwise.
2
Dogs have unerring internal clocks
and finite bladd...
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Categories:
pinking, dog, nature,
Form: Free verse
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