The Christmas Stable Mouse
...Bethlehem nights were far colder than the bright sunlit days,
as creatures in the stable were taken out to graze.
The ox, the ass, the donkey, and the mule
were pastured out to earn their ke...
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Categories:
purveyed, animal, christmas, nature,
Form: Narrative
Predictable
...Crocheting needles waved her fingers from a self-disclosed mind
Texture and pattern set lines like predictive text and autocorrect
Wool over her eyes would know how to stitch up her soul-scape
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Categories:
purveyed, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Time In Retrograde
...On the edge of November sighs
the end of October steps aside,
the roses no longer in bloom
as they did in the warmth of June;
come the winter of our descent
into timeless age well spent
as ...
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Categories:
purveyed, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Got Your Back
...Twenty-three ...
The freckles on your nape,
Tiny islands of wonder on your silky dermis ...
I have traveled every one, many times.
Day-after-day I sit here at ...
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Categories:
purveyed, crush, high school, longing,
Form: Free verse
Clipping the Coupons
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She always considered herself
to be a good housewife
Took care of all the necessary things
in her husband and children's life
But in the kitchen, she really took pride
in being the savings ...
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Categories:
purveyed, money, perspective, wife,
Form: Light Verse
The Great War
...The Great War
He pointed at us from a posters paint
Washed away the thoughts of truth
Many sick things in those days of death
Feathers for those who did not go
A bullet for those that beca...
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Categories:
purveyed, war, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Memory
...March 19, 2012 by Yenti
The ice was etched in perfect form
Snow like a gossamer gown
That had yet to be worn
Sky carved from an ebony block so true
Scattered diamonds making deep blue
Held within ...
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Categories:
purveyed, happiness, life, love, time,
Form: Free verse
Gone Mother Gone,
...It began in the innocent spring of life
This of which, never did share
Spent summer of youth
… One in blanket gaze
While, she of long reaching, __ mystic stare
Now stirs autumn winds
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Categories:
purveyed, angstautumn,
Form: I do not know?
Borne of a Young Mother
...It was the innocent spring of life, of which, never shared
Spent summer youth in blanket gaze or in mystic stare
Now the autumn winds, whisper of twice cried tears
Of two stories told, each wellin...
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Categories:
purveyed, childhoodautumn,
Form: I do not know?