Songs Paused in the Tree
...Since the elderly king greatly loved music, his court esteemed it, too;
As sun and moon smile on myriad colors, during the butterfly revue.
The king was well loved and jolly, with the que...
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Categories:
rapturously, beauty, fantasy, happiness, music,
Form: Couplet
PALEO PAIR
...PALEO PAIR
Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions
were our t...
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Categories:
rapturously, age, allegory, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
CLOUD DWELLING
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CLOUD DWELLING
I choose to dwell among
sailing clouds for a while
here fleshlessness is style
silver state of bliss I soak
to return is to freshly cloak
no lungs o...
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Categories:
rapturously, birth, character, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse
Shoo
...I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with pride.
John had left us a prosperous farm,...
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Categories:
rapturously, age, children, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
In the Gloaming
...I was a daydreamer and stargazer, who eagerly awaited calm nights of glitter,
Like blue skies warily turning pink, plum and red, as orange sun sinks, bitter.
I grew familiar with diverse constell...
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Categories:
rapturously, beauty, fantasy, nature, sunset,
Form: Couplet
Words
...Far more words than
open ears --
a world of chatter;
words everywhere --
difficult to avoid such
precipitous splatter…
poets use them, vociferously!
Politicians use them, surreptitious...
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Categories:
rapturously, animal, cat, cute, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Goldfinch
...The finch dances merry, weaving feathers into music
That spills from overeager beaks and drips light onto slick wings
Which beat in time with the song, fluttering, flittering,
Finding life in th...
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Categories:
rapturously, bird,
Form: Free verse
Earthquake In a Tea Cup
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"Earthquake in a Tea Cup"
the earthquake
rocked through
a pink haze
soft and powdered
scent of lit smoke
flaming fires
hot oven baked
green apples
ripe skin siz...
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Categories:
rapturously, muse, satire, sensual,
Form: Narrative
Rainy Blissful Sunday With Yourself, Friend Or Lover
...#SWISH! SWASH! SWOOSH!
MORE, MORE...POUR SOME MORE!
Oh what's in store, for this day, is a memorable drenching, a satiated and satisfying encapsulation of sensations
met rigoursly and rapturous...
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Categories:
rapturously, appreciation, celebration, day, dedication,
Form: Free verse
The Messenger
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"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
wa...
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Categories:
rapturously, dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Multiculturing Gifts
...I wonder
wander through sacred history,
in
and out again
Back
remotely far
before humanity,
When EarthTribes
were already compassionately gifted
with potential whole-sum divinity,
Pan...
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Categories:
rapturously, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Frequency
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“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existi...
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Categories:
rapturously, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Wandering Sacred History
...I wonder
about wandering into sacred history
Back
remotely far
in collective memory
before humanity,
When EarthTribe regenerativity
was all compassionately gifted
divinity,
Panentheist...
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Categories:
rapturously, culture, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Salvage
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"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
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Categories:
rapturously, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
Inside the Great Halls of Us
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“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT hol...
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Categories:
rapturously, i am, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
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