Dear Tom
...Dear Tom
If I had the courage to speak from the heart
Ladybirds of redness would sing from
It.
I imagined my pain was of your making
But it was only the making of life.
Now I'm alive like a l...
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Categories:
redness, friend,
Form: Free verse
When I Was a Boy
...Boyhood was a one-night stand,
So brief and unforgettable,
Full of dreams,
Sweet —like a rooftop party,
Wild and loud,
When the world several feet below,
Full of envy, shouted at us,
“Come dow...
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Categories:
redness, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
Horror Poem Number Two
...The razor;
It slipped
Leading to
Unexpected consequences.
The redness
Splashed and spread,
Splashed and spread....
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Categories:
redness, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Unknown Room
...I walked into a room and did not know it well
yet, feel I should, for I have been there many times,
not a liminal space, though sometimes this is so.
But this time, oddly, somewhere I should know ...
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Categories:
redness, memory,
Form: Blank verse
Christmas
...Christmas is a long song sung in winter,
An epic poem written with white quill feather pen and
Gold ink, and on clouds of paper,
Beginning from a sneezing December to a
Dizzying twelfth-calendar ...
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Categories:
redness, christmas, winter,
Form: Free verse
My Maltese Framed My Life
...Animals Poetry Contest
Constance La France
Snowball painted my life with all hearts
He would fill our canvas with his love
For twelve years we played our parts
Like two little angels from ab...
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Categories:
redness, animal, appreciation, dog,
Form: Quintain (English)
The redness remains
...The redness from the veins still stains the earth,
Bones stripped bare of flesh by ravenous ants,
In each of the souls, peace was much in dearth,
The redness from the veins still stains the earth,...
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Categories:
redness, anger, angst, conflict, death,
Form: Triolet
Shades of Red
...Shades of Red
The red spectrum of people,
Like a beautiful butterfly,
Fluttering across the sky,
Looking for a bloomed flower.
Shades of Red traverse the landscape,
Like freshly turned fall...
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Categories:
redness, autumn, celebration, spring,
Form: Free verse
Saline memory
...I walked on the beach as a child
My prints were small and hurried
Excited steps fed my way
Testing the cold beast
That would tempt me
In and out, each silver back
Threw out its arms
Was it lo...
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Categories:
redness, memory, sea,
Form: Free verse
Sultan Poem:
...Where there is love there is life.
Nor those spiritual eyes exist anywhere else
Nor that glowing face
Neither I found those heartfelt talks
Nor that fresh youthful beauty any place
I have seen t...
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Categories:
redness, culture, family, marriage, wedding,
Form: ABC
Effect of Redness
...
As the blush of a lovely breast spreads
Harpy eagle's desire hovers over the Tigris River
Taurus rides the high tide of excitement.
The Cliff gets inundated by huge floods
Turbulent is the da...
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Categories:
redness, allegory, mystery,
Form: Free verse
DONt WORRY LOVE
...
Don’t Worry Love
The hot redness of her face, as if Mars,
Surrounded by flashy yellow a-bright;
And pure snow clouds dancing, chastefully, light.
Orbit’s blush and puppy love...
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Categories:
redness, first love,
Form: Hybronnet
Jesus And The Demons
...As thorns exist with the rose, or redness subsists with blood
The evil that dwells in hearts has its traits in the physique.
Though humans try to nip all negativism in the bud,
Expressions of the ...
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Categories:
redness, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
The Senses
...Dust falling on your nose.
The smooth, redness of a rose.
A ponytail gripping your wrist.
The frustration of necklaces in a twist.
Some senses are calm, others burning.
A raindrop falls and I fi...
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Categories:
redness, senses,
Form: Rhyme
summer Sun
...sweltering heat ray
intense redness on body
beach goers nightmare...
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Categories:
redness, beach, sun,
Form: Haiku
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