The Oak and the Breeze
...If I were an oak and you were the breeze
Would you whisper softly and put me at ease?
Would you cradle me as the seasons pass
Would you make me bend like a blade of grass
Soothe me, sway me, for...
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Categories:
pleasantest, love, nature, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Nobel Prize Can Surprise
...Grand Citations of The Still Sober
In Neared Radios of Fresh October
And one had in mind a Graham Greene
But - Lo! - Some Newly Discovered Being:
“Greene had a bit got sensational,
His rejectio...
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Categories:
pleasantest, celebration, celebrity, image, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
A Silvery Fish
...A seagull flew by
With a fish in its beak,
A sight which, to others,
Might not be unique.
But here by the river,
Where I sit a bunch,
I never have witnessed
A gull with its lunch.
That s...
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Categories:
pleasantest, bird, fish, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Noonday Riverwalk
...It seems the sky has never been bluer,
As I stroll the lovely familiar path;
And bird trills have never been truer,
Than in hazy dawn's golden aftermath.
The clouds float lazy above the treetop...
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Categories:
pleasantest, bird, butterfly, memory, nature,
Form: Sonnet
My Sundial Oath
...I only tell of sunny hours...
then rest at night along with flowers.
No one will come in dark of night
to read the time I show in light.
I only tell of sunny hours;
the bright sunrise, my sur...
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Categories:
pleasantest, time, wisdom,
Form: Personification
Coy To His Mistress
...When two people fall in love,
there's one thing that they long to do.
It's true for birds and bees and doves,
and equally for me and you.
The pleasantest of loving deeds,
it's fed by, a...
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Categories:
pleasantest, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Rest Peacefully O Dear Friend
...(In loving memory of Thokozile)
A shadow fell, heavy and sudden, upon our quiet reflections,
Breaking the calm with an ache too profound to ignore.
It seeped into the deep recesses of our though...
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Categories:
pleasantest, death of a friend,
Form: I do not know?