Plaintive Thoughts, Delicate Distress
Delicate distress of the loon
beckons plaintive thoughts
return home, as they wriggle
desperately away from where
our past confronts us
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Categories:
plaintive, bird, cry, imagery, sad,
Form: Free verse
Plaintive Trance
" How sweet to the heart are the scenes of my childhood"
Samuel Woodworth 1785 - 1842
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Categories:
plaintive, childhood, memory,
Form: Terza Rima
The Plaintive Song of a Stone
If I could but feel!
I would feel the warmth
of the sun upon my old,
cold, featureless face....
If I could but touch,
I'd touch the grass I lay on
and revel in its texture like
a little happy king....
If I could but smell,
all the flowers of the world
would be mine: roses and
daisies and even orchids
would be endless delight....
If I
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Categories:
plaintive, analogy, appreciation, beauty, god,
Form: Free verse
The Theory of a Plaintive Music
The equanimity of the day reached beyond my solitary realm,
As if the tune of demise fathomed the doleful heart of mine;
Escaped from the autistic aftermath blamed by mordacious charm,
Healed beyond charade of some credulous bonds -
As if the tune of avow choired with the tune of demise,
Crowning an arena slewed by the tune of ravine;
Vehement
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Categories:
plaintive, depression, lost love, sadsong,
Form: Free verse
The Plaintive Fish (Or
In the heaviest hour I'm transparent
in skies that you've painted green
Carnivorous, blatant desire
replaced with a boyish need
May night creep beside me slowly
and nudge me along your path
The loveliest, calmest sea
flows gentle beneath my past
Oh hours and winters and all
the fish which do dive just for you
can't carry my sleepy ambition
or safely follow me through
You pray
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Categories:
plaintive, adventure, art, imagination, life,
Form: Quatrain