So Precious Recalls
childhood memories
kids life is so much easy
so precious recalls
as the time goes by, marches
"a shame we have to grow up"!
Inspired by Tom Cunningham.
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Categories:
recalls, childhood,
Form: Tanka
EYES SORE SOUL RECALLS TEARS SO SHED--SOUL AS MINE EYE’S MY SOUL SHED TEARS
Soul as mine eye’s my soul shed tears;
Stained raining forth shadowing grows.
Flows aloft, a top my minds membrane;
This be new day dawning
Sometime placement now
This new provisions shroud
Standing outside of time
Yet holding inside of time
Remember the former things
Soul as mine eye’s my soul shed tears;
I don’t remember the former things;
Yet I do?
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Categories:
recalls, analogy, blessing, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Winter Magic
Shrunken by the cold weather,
winter magic gathers us together.
Shivering as naked trees,
we travel across the seas.
We join our effort to see magic under our knees.
We pray to reach home,
our heart is not alone.
A magic winter delights us
on its own.
A magic winter provide us with fulness,
despite of its dulness.
Under the grey skies we feel
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Categories:
recalls, allusion, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Beach Ball Recalls
For almost a decade now,
a beach ball has been firmly wedged
between skeletal roof cross beams
at my local swimming pool
No doubt some kid kicked too hard,
and it accidentally got wedged tight
But come on!
ten years later and still it’s stuck up there,
albeit slightly deflated
Every week when I’m doing backstroke lengths,
I look
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Categories:
recalls, memory, perspective, time,
Form: Free verse
November Recalls
The seconds ran fast
as did the minutes
which never seemed to last.
And the hours took wings
as if racing to the finish
to beat the last bell-ring.
The days flew by like jet planes,
leaving trails to capture the memories.
The Winter months were cold but never grew old.
When young, I captured the memories that arrested me the most.
I shut out
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Categories:
recalls, november,
Form: Verse
Those Calls and Recalls
They came in a flurry
Was it desperation?
Or
Was she really in a hurry?
Wanting to connect to someone
She loved so dearly...
The man
Now recalling those moments
Tries hard to understand
Her raging passion and desire
With no less a burning fire
Bordering not so much
On physical intimacy
As the unyielding temptation
To chat, to talk, or merely to see
Each other
Over distance far,
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Categories:
recalls, miss you, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
A Child Recalls
By my enabled senses five, attention externalised, I beheld the magical world of myriad objects, reflecting their luminous auras. As I exhaled, the world disappeared and through my open fontanel correspondent to the crown chakra, I entwined with universal consciousness, melding with God’s blissful domain of boundless love and soft white light. My subtle body
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Categories:
recalls, innocence, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Lesbia Recalls Meeting Catullus
That night you came and dined with us
there was a wind, then soft rain.
My hair was dressed by Aemilia
who does it to perfection, and I wore no jewelry
except the brooch my husband gave
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Categories:
recalls, love,
Form: Lyric
A Boatman Recalls and Repents
An old thatched boat
full of goods and secrets
sails down memory lane.
Rice boils on a stained
stove again. The same
kerosene lamp flickers
in the salty breeze. His
eyes row along the wet
feminine nudity. Often
he shatters a widow’s
solitude on the Kanoli
Bank. He used to steal
the tender coconuts...
The moist events, he
recalls and repents.
Trucks
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Categories:
recalls, life,
Form: Free verse
A Poetess Fondly Recalls
My Mother-In-Law
Her last years, were on the Internet spent.
Loving chatrooms and then...Mother found a poetry site.
Heavens! How excited was she!
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Thus, she spent her waning years writing poetry.
How she loved mankind and her fellow-poets!
She signed her comments, with "Love,
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Categories:
recalls, family, humor, jealousy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Dropping She Recalls
DROPPING SHE RECALLS
Cold-blooded scales, fiery-hot, languishing,
As she dreamily falls harnessing the icy wind.
Dropping she recalls, and smiles feebly,
That she alone sits on the throne, this Lizard Queen.
Today’s Date: 1/30/2020
Arbitrium Divisa 7 Poetry Contest
Gregory R Barden
Original Poem: Lizard Queen dated 1/22/2020
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Categories:
recalls, animal, weather,
Form: Personification
Whenever Middle-Age Recalls Youth
Whenever middle-age recalls youth
with its long, exciting and carefree days:
we remember that we lived them in our own ways;
our parents argued that it wasn't astute...
have they forgotten how they shamelessly lied
to get some romantic kiss before it actually died?
Before the invention of television most folks were moody...
there were only radios and vinyl records to listen
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Categories:
recalls, family, growing up, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Man Recalls
Night closes in there in the streets
Rushing upon the tar two boys
Racing their bicycles
To defeat
Fearlessly weaving near the cars
Freedom is a feeling
A moment in time
Carefree and one handed on the bar
He looked on them remembering,
Himself at that stage
So long ago its seems,
life turned that page
Where the youthful minds,
carry unthinkable
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Categories:
recalls, childhood, people, places
Form: Free verse
The Dying Poet Recalls a Poem
Hooked to oxygen, you can’t recite a line you’ve written.
Remember all those poems full of woodland paths and trout streams.
Lovingly, the words that always knew your name still hold you.
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Categories:
recalls, death, life, on writing
Form: Sijo