Name Quintain (Sicilian) Poems

To touch a leaf upon a tree and watch it shiver with delight 
and when the sun comes out to play to watch it swing...

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September sixteenth, wedding change of gears.
I wait my turn an usher by my side.
Surprise! my arm, the groom now commandeers.
Revised rehearsal plan requests his bride,
a...

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Knots

Two fibers to join take some time,
Partly crossed, partly ajar.
It’s like a poem without a rhyme,
Knit closely but yet too far
For both are alike and...

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I hold my little new born child  
who is born in a hospital
in a town where tumbleweeds roll mild   
the Cancer has...

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Crystal dewdrop jewels pendent from leafless Hawthorne
over snowdrop pearls and early golden buds of daffodil.
A blackbird upon Sparrow, Peggy Gladys does adorn,
while morning light accentuates...

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Our choir cantata won't take place this year.
We lack the space to be six feet apart
on stage or in the choir loft, but the fear
of...

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In the night sky I admire the moon,
and the moon's ever starry friend;
they travel together and are attune,
above in the dark they suspend;
but I...

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This pathway is doubly dangerous
That one who cuts my stitches
A tad too short
Is the same who reaches 
Carelessly too close

To that dreadful corona mortis 
God’s...

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Sunset sky was like a fiery red flame
wistful touch on her hair with a sigh
Warm, sweet smell of cinnamon apple pie
A rose in my safe...

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I tell you, girl, it’s better not to pout
Some tasty treats I have for you in store
I'm Santa's helper with a member stout
Unlike poor Santa,...

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A beauty danced beneath pale moonlight,
While hypnotic song flurried on the breeze,
Distant, the voices tell of magic’s flight,
A heart is caught with such apparent ease,
And...

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A dream within a dream that calls my name,
And echoes through the night while sleeping still,
That voice that never seems to sound the same,
Yet comes...

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I heard my name  from shadows spoke,
beyond the place called time

where thoughts begin, from deep within
where names have never been

It's there I found the...

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