BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
...she rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful
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blue black curled ...
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Categories:
qs, allegory, allusion, art, bereavement,
Form: Ekphrasis
Ps and Qs
...preening queens prickled~
queendom prerogatives quashed
prized predilections~...
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Categories:
qs, relationship,
Form: Epigram
Port of Call
...O Death, how dost thou captivate the mind
And shape one’s final days as light grows dim.
Though man in earnest looks, naught will he find;
Close to thy breast are held thy secrets grim.
For som...
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Categories:
qs, death,
Form: Quatorzain
Harp Strung With Hopes
...Life is twittering of birds you listen
taking a stroll when sky bright and azure
Life is blooming buds of poppies glisten,
Life is all ...
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Categories:
qs, dream, inspiration, life,
Form: Quatrain
Child In a Quiver
...Catholic education taught me all my Ps and Qs
when nuns and priests coached a child's reluctant view,
in a quandary and a quiver
to kneel up straight and perfectly perpen...
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Categories:
qs, analogy, christian, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Humming Sorrow
...Humming Sorrow
(Replaces 'a' with 'q')
Seeping smogged smithereens in mqrrows,
Cqllous pqin hums hymnql sorrow:
Junk jive embroidered with crescendoes,
Rough rhythms in reefs grow
Qs th...
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Categories:
qs, evil, pain,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
The Day I Saw That Fate Exists
..."The Day(s) I Saw That Fate Exists"
6/17/19
"What Makes You Flinch" poetry contest
Sponsored By: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Today began as most of many days do
Today I woke, a tad bit hungover
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Categories:
qs, addiction, anxiety, brother, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Know God Never Denies
...Know God Never Denies
We know that God never denies,
My oh my how time always flies;
For His sake;
Prayer will make;
Much faster than we did realize;
A soldier fighting in a field dies.
Ji...
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Categories:
qs, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Many Hikes With Three Mikes and Many More
...Many Hikes with Three Mikes
After I had gone on many hikes
Ended up with these three Mikes
Meant to be,
Great all three,
Who I do know everyone likes.
Who I do have a Hoopy Do Review.
Ji...
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Categories:
qs, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
For Jack Ellison and More
...Here A Buck and There A Buck
We never wanted to make a buck;
You and I have been nip and tuck;
Poems love writing;
Each other inviting;
Out more poems we should shuck.
(Before gold someone ...
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Categories:
qs, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Sacred Process
...Images of God as active dynamic process
have evolved through theological circles,
and marched through anthrocentric political squares,
for at least as long as I have been able to regenerate my alp...
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Categories:
qs, culture, destiny, god, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Shape of the Nation
...Shape Of The Nation (an oval precaution)
News outlets draw the line at racism
Pencil gray, color blind and crayons ready
Fantasies replace triangles, circles and square deals
Pentagons, hexag...
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Categories:
qs, absence, abuse, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Death of Captain Khan
...Death of Captain Khan
Was both with much pride and being brave
But Captain Khan now lies in an Arlington grave
After having been humble with much humility
We recently saw his fine father who wa...
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Categories:
qs, appreciation, beauty, death, memorial,
Form: Couplet
Ar 15 Discovered In Black Box
...AR 15 was found in one of the airplane's black boxes
News about AR-15 And Southport, NC
bing.com/news
NC fire department decides to remove AR-15 and other firearms from raffle
WNCN · 2 ho...
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Categories:
qs, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Biggest Eagle Nest Ever Built
...Biggest Eagle Nest Ever Built
With law of nature eagle does eagerly comply
To and from her home she always will fly
Returning back to biggest nest ever built
Had been so sturdy that it will nev...
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Categories:
qs, allegory, analogy, beautiful, bereavement,
Form: Couplet
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