Diamond Dreams
...Tulips of morning
just waked from amaranth dreams,
meet glittering sun.
Dogwood rose opens redly
Pink dawn's jewel shines steady.
Beautiful flowers
respond to warmth's mute caress!
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Categories:
redly, beautiful, color, dream, flower,
Form: Tanka
Polly Astley
...Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people;
Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful.
Her days were spent teaching children, with ...
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Categories:
redly, fantasy, friendship, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Daisy Darkness
...midnight was glowing
in recall of antique gold
huge yellow daisy
pleasures we once knew
when dusk daisy glowed redly
twirl memory lane
golden onyx dark
shrouding melancholy moon
a...
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Categories:
redly, beautiful, flower, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Blood Suckers
...I swat mosquitoes
smash flies --
not because I hate them
just what they do
the pernicious nature
of their existence
assisting their evolution
helping them to
come back as a
higher ...
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Categories:
redly, christian, holocaust, love, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Chill Evening
...frosty stars are out
pink moon wanders into night
with its fragrancies
summer's chasing fall
in its ripe, lonely old age
they'll dance at the ball
both dressed up in hues
blending the old ...
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Categories:
redly, bird, color, dance, flower,
Form: Haiku
It Grew On Me
...I was a fashionable horticulturist, for elegant flowers keep eternally in style,
Like the saffron sun, coming and going, always causing dark skies to smile.
Plants were a jade preoccupation, long...
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Categories:
redly, appreciation, beautiful, career, color,
Form: Couplet
Scarlet Noon
...Deepest darkest reds
crimson guest in the roses
of the same rich hue.
Flowers and plumed cardinal
interact through scents and song.
Vivid green summer
showers gold on scarlet lane-
forever m...
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Categories:
redly, beauty, bird, green, red,
Form: Tanka
The Smiles Follow You
...The golden hour for rising has arrived, and there are violet roses in the sky,
So, I bid hello to you, my robust friend, as the vibrant, cerise birds float by.
The obsidian night, it was very lon...
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Categories:
redly, fantasy, imagery, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Way Up North
...I was talking to my solitary self again, grumbling how life held no adventure,
And my parrot, Cherry, often echoed me, as moon echoes golden splendors.
She'd ruffle her feathers and preen, as she...
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Categories:
redly, bird, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Springtime Awaiting
...visitors coming
expectancy afternoon
a hush in the blooms
saffron soon Sunday
and cardinal sings redly
cream clouds paint blue sky
butterflies flitting
through the forests of color
and sc...
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Categories:
redly, color, flower, nature, peace,
Form: Haiku
Curious Integrity
...I find it easier
and, admittedly, more fun
to climb through tough terrain,
piles of leaves,
loose rocks,
debris,
If
and when
my goal is not to push sweaty through
by force of independently...
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Categories:
redly, dance, health, integrity, loneliness,
Form: Political Verse
The Papal Vision
...In verity and with great hopes,
Malachy told his Prophecy of Popes!
Centuries ago, he was called to Rome,
Like the bees to their honeycomb.
There a beauteous vision did flower,
Of all remainin...
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Categories:
redly, christian, destiny, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Poppies: Collaboration With Mystic Rose
...Hillsides shimmer in summer's golden fire
as marmalade sun dawns on poppied slopes.
I run with Monarch butterflies higher
barefoot in honey with tangerine hopes.
I hear the butter chirp of a wa...
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Categories:
redly, butterfly, flower, inspirational, lost
Form: Quatrain
How Do You Decide
...It is the latest news that even claimed attention there in London...
A video clip somewhere in the city, the central part being redly encircled...
Drawing attention to the running digital display...
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Categories:
redly, anxiety, community, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Cross
...Blood flowed from His palms,
ankles redly bright--
the blind first to see Him,
as lame stood upright.
The proud,
of course, they fled Him;
and the strong
more refuge in migh...
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Categories:
redly, allegory, baptism, bible, love,
Form: Rhyme
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