GOTCHA!
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Tingly skies full of surprise, oh how I love when with surmise,
the little rascal aims his dart as if it were poetic art!
He will deliberately ambush you and your entire tush
with a ...
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Categories:
questing, desire, heart, humor, kiss,
Form: Rhyme
The Cheese of Euripides
...Tingling of tongue sent Euripides
Questing a tastier kind of cheese.
"I found cheddar magical,"
Said this poet tragical,
"Sailing the southern antipodes.”...
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Categories:
questing, food, history, humor, poets,
Form: Limerick
God's Blessings
...Alluring Blessings Come Down Earthward, From God.
Heaven Intercedes Jubilant, Kindles Love-
Magnificent Nourishment, Obliterates pride.
Questing Radiant Souls Thirst Umpteen Virtues....
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Categories:
questing, blessing, god, love,
Form: ABC
Their locket
...In the symphony of love, there is a resonance,
where hearts beat in harmony, finely attuned.
Two souls entwined, finding completeness
together; they dwell by the warm hearth.
In their eyes, a pro...
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Categories:
questing, for her, i love
Form: Sestina
Unholy Ruminations
...The opposite of life
is death
The polar opposite of eternal health
is terminal disease,
with unease perhaps lying/truthing
in-between timelessness
and untimely demise
So too,
my opposite ...
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Categories:
questing, death, grief, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Are We Safer Now
...Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.
Am I OK?
Healthy?
Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,...
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Categories:
questing, dark, death, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Grail's Tale
...It was a dark and stormy knight
who entered the castle unbidden.
Questing to rescue the purloined grail
in the dungeon's depths still hidden.
He met no resistance, no guard or dragoon,
h...
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Categories:
questing, funny, hero, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Eudaimonia's Crown
...In the silent chambers of the questing mind,
We seek the thread that binds our fragile souls.
Eudaimonia, concept undefined,
Beckons us towards our highest goals.
What makes a life well-lived, a ...
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Categories:
questing, education, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
When Summer Is Gone
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Like any transition Summer springs from a bud and burgeons into bloom, fulfilling the legacy of nature's constant change of state. Gone but remembered.
From frolicking in the swel...
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Categories:
questing, seasons,
Form: Free verse
PAIN AND LONGING
...PAIN AND LONGING
Reluctant wood lay
marbled down His spine
as His passion extracted
His strength in diamond
drops daggered
my hip pain a micro
misplay of that which
nailed His truth :...
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Categories:
questing, analogy, animal, character, color,
Form: Bio
Stunning Stranger SCHIZOPHRENIC
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Written: May 23, 2024, For Charlotte Puddifoot Contest
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Always hear hollering hellhounds, yet nothing close, nobody home,
Para...
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Categories:
questing, inspirational, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Cherry Picking
...Quote: "I shall be like a tree planted by the river"
Amidst the orchard's verdant scene, I stand tall,
Beneath the azure sky, I hear the river's call.
Cherries ripe and red, like jewels they g...
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Categories:
questing, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian
Phantom Grace
...Joy tree form
Hint scented mint
Lies forbidden myth
Waking nightmare youthful grin
Echoes of fate not found
Questing toward towers
Safe escape
Remote fear of flying
Waking removed from earth...
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Categories:
questing, art, blessing, dream, feelings,
Form: Free verse
It Started With a Blank Canvas
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How endearing the innocence of life was,
When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas,
Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth,
Happy as can be, cuddled in loving arms,
Flaunting vigor of ado...
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Categories:
questing, life, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Foghorn
...I was an inscrutable, capricious mystery writer, like a pure mystery of days;
And I had composed best selling novels, like westering sun's scarlet phase.
An unparalleled passion for writi...
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Categories:
questing, fantasy, god, lost, mystery,
Form: Couplet
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