The Flower and the Bee
...The flower and the bee are miracle signs.
To last forever when the spirit aligns.
The summer is abuzz with all of the fun.
A day to remember when love was outdone.
The most perfect design th...
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Categories:
plainest, life,
Form: Rhyme
Glamour
...Getting all dolled up, even the plainest moth can become a butterfly.
Looks are made alluring when body, nails and hair
Are given glints of gorgeousness! One becomes candy for ...
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Categories:
plainest, beautiful,
Form: Acrostic
In a Minute of Posture
...Fishing through any needy soul
For God's only purpose
We search for the goal
On Hideous bible planes we reach
And love and learn and
Cry and teach
We are far gone
In whiskey and gin
strang...
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Categories:
plainest, anxiety, character, death,
Form: Rhyme
Singing Lass of the Valley
...Pretty little lass Meena had an endearing wish,
which did not seem very much attainable to her family!
She had a captivating singing voice -
people called her "Myna of Srinagar",
in the vall...
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Categories:
plainest, bird, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Coping With Bad News
...A great wonder Kim’s legs still carried him.
A lot in Sam’s remarks still worried him:
The Sam who’d been watching Dolly and Kim
Right from the day Kim was trapped by The Slim!
Sam’s bold comment...
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Categories:
plainest, crush, love, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Invisible Barrier
...Do we perform countless roles in our life?
we do…and we try to perform our best in every challenge that comes our way!
Was it the motivated student graduati...
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Categories:
plainest, childhood, children, poverty, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
My Flowers That Are Dear
...I look around me walking down the street
on warm May days, and flowers I can see.
So many lovelies – for my eyes a treat.
But they are not all in my memory
engrained, so how they look I can’t def...
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Categories:
plainest, flower,
Form: Sonnet
I Imagine
...can you imagine yourself a young girl from Nighastan?
who is thirteen, and never stepped foot in regular school?
toiling day and night, taking care of siblings and housework,
her smile reminds of ...
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Categories:
plainest, imagination, poverty, power,
Form: Free verse
When Heart Passes Baton To Head
...Let dead rocks of reason lie on the way,
Let all logic, all do's and don'ts lie still,
The rules of grammar gathered yesterday,
Of metre and foot, let them let-down feel
If lines river-like flow ...
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Categories:
plainest, heart,
Form: Sonnet
The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity
...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...
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Categories:
plainest, eulogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
Broken: She Thought She Wasn'T Beautiful
...Dressed in rag with a face of stone,
A smile you would ignore,
Was all she thought she ever was,
Was all she ever saw,
But to me she dressed in sheets of velvet,
She sauntered through the a...
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Categories:
plainest, love,
Form: Quatrain
Diamonds In Her Heart
...She was the plainest buzzard in the chicken coop.
Man, is she plain, the roosters used to say.
But one rooster gave her a chance. They shared a nest.
She had diamonds in her heart. He told people
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Categories:
plainest, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Personification
Forgotten
...I know if I could ever reach you,
i'd come to say I'd love to meet you...
In the days that lie beneath the open face,
in the simplest ways we live in our craze-
and the wildest braves...
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Categories:
plainest, allusion, anxiety, art, assonance,
Form: Prose Poetry
On the Mount of Transfiguration
...Revelation in its plainest form,
Glory revealed before the naked eyes;
To whom is this understanding granted?
Oh behold Him on the mount of holiness—
Oh behold the transfigured Christ!
A brigh...
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Categories:
plainest, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Rejoice, the Soul Is Alive
...Rejoice, the soul is alive
The sight of star-spangled skies if at night
Drench you deep with wonderment of a child,
And that of dark skies, with the same delight,
And if this unknown joy be no ...
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Categories:
plainest, age, child, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
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