Blank Space Craft
...The dark spill muddied my canvas:
Made its mess, dislocated light
And thoughtful lines to the edges
While it claimed the center for spite.
It seemed like all was wrecked.
The time I'd wor...
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Categories:
plainness, divorce, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Mad About Towns
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When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which ...
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Categories:
plainness, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick
Helen Steiner Rice
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Writing with peace about the Avenger
She assembled words of worship
Simplicity filled her pages
Writing with perseverance for the Builder
She bumbled with joyful jubilance
With truth, sh...
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Categories:
plainness, dedication, inspiration, poetess,
Form: Verse
Love Delayed
...Love Delayed
Who could have known?
The pattern of life was already here.
Hot and cold in its earthliness.
It only required us to find our willingness
On a simple classroom first-glance,...
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Categories:
plainness, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Meanness of Nature
...Plush peacock king wears his crown with pride
Heralded as one of the features of his spring time park
Admired by thousands, refreshed daily and often
He is created from the prettiest flowers.
M...
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Categories:
plainness, animal,
Form: Free verse
Depths of Moon
...I do not want sweet pretty poems
Of unmarked sky where fancies roam
Give me the bones of ghosts to haunt
Sweet pretty poems, I do not want
I've had enough of gilded gold
Whose pretense of valu...
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Categories:
plainness, angst, beauty, dark, night,
Form: Quatrain
Within the Shadow of a Broken Heart
...I stand tall among the same restful souls;
Within the shadow of a broken heart.
Trumpet of harmony sweet fragrant bloom,
Restored innocence after death conso...
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Categories:
plainness, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Wisdom of the Sun
...In a night where the sons of sons sat under the stars
My father’s father told the sons of the wisdom of the sun
The beauty of the world is beheld in who we love
To live and to die they are all we...
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Categories:
plainness, africa, art, culture, lost
Form: Blank verse
Another Dawn Pt I
...Pt.1
Another dawn, another beginning of filling the hours of the day with despair and mundane longing to forget my troubled past. Each day my mind is pulverized with agonizing memories of days...
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Categories:
plainness, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
The Humble Square
...My favorite quilting shape’s a square;
It’s simple, quick to stitch and spare.
Such plainness shouldn’t be ignored,
For it can form a checkerboard.
This pattern’s friendly and it’s neat.
To qu...
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Categories:
plainness, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Towards the Land
...In arcade of rigorousness
that brought the use of scrupulousness
walking in the valley of rectitudeness
with a pure mind of purity
which truncate not, witting truthfulness
to a steadfast adher...
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Categories:
plainness, betrayal, corruption, life, peace,
Form: Didactic
Sunshine
...Sunshine, life's primordial sustainer
Channeling to all, the sun's energy
Plant, animal, insect, fish or other
Without sunshine, not one of them would be
Sunshine can uplift your mood and spir...
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Categories:
plainness, flower, joy, life, magic,
Form: Quatrain
The Meaning of Life
...What is the meaning of this life?
Is it pain and grief and strife?
Is it the happy and joyful things?
Those things that life finally brings?
Is it the dark and dreary trail?
Is it the ...
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Categories:
plainness, deep, life, simile, symbolism,
Form: I do not know?
Utility
...A blank page a hollow one
Its plainness sickening
A page without a scribble is faceless
Without a story or experience behind it
Nothing for emulation
But with a little colour or few words
...
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Categories:
plainness, change, uplifting,
Form: Blank verse
Gainsborough Phrasis All Is Simplicity Rected
...ALL IS SIMPLICITY
Create a little business for
the Eye to be drawn from
trees, to return them with more
glee.Variety, lively touches,
surprising effects to make
the heart dance so pictures
walk out...
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Categories:
plainness, art, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
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