Paradise Festival
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Written: April 14, 2024
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Outside the domain of absolute morality,
A wilderness of sacredness would cleave.
A framework devoid of v...
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Categories:
redound, appreciation, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Raving, Raving; the Tides Receeding
...Here I am,
In the first fling of youth-
In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?
This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, c...
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Categories:
redound, allusion, angst, anxiety, i
Form: Free verse
Mercy Songs
...Disparage not our hearts-- they are God-loved, God-found
This will get mystical -- allow me to propound
Just think-- wherever we pray can be holy ground
Contemplation of His Love always will ast...
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Categories:
redound, clothes, heart, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Monorhyme
The Fiddler and the Frog
...A symphony in two part sound:
the fiddler and the frog
played echo in the fog,
a lovely analog.
Crescendoing as they redound,
with none to inhibit
the bow or the ribbit,
they simply ad-lib i...
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Categories:
redound, music,
Form: Other
Meaning of Life
...People surround until they stop expecting……...the upright stands alone…an intelligent walks alone……moral and ethics struggle to prove themselves right……friends and relatives are born disguised compet...
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Categories:
redound, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Old Age
...I don't know whether
ignorance can grow
but wisdom can
for many years
it has been
to the credit of facts
and redound to
longer experiences
even common experience
is not an exception
then w...
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Categories:
redound, love,
Form: Free verse
Noise and Silence
...Beneath my mind the demon danced,
He reaps away my brain
With awkward sounds and sights untrue
Not of the homely grain.
It's party dim tonight I think ,
But things are moving all,
I cl...
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Categories:
redound, angst,
Form: Ballad
Indolence May Induce Innovation
...Loathing the mazy, the lazy look around
To spot the shortest of all paths to be found
For the indolence that in him does redound
The lazy man with novelty does abound...
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Categories:
redound, smart,
Form: Quatrain
When Will You Know
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Curious child with the azure eyes
ever innocently searching,
never down
Where unbeknownst tears
have yet to sigh fall
pillow bound
Curious ewe with the bright cloud colored skin
alw...
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Categories:
redound, hope, longing, nature, romantic
Form: Prose Poetry
Ezra
...This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that I...
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Categories:
redound, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Unlimited Grace
...Greatly
infinite...
...unlimited
freely granted to me...
God's grace*!
*2Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksg...
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Categories:
redound, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Cinqku
The Reluctant
...THE RELUCTANT
by Mark Miller © 09/19/2014
We are the living seeming stillness willful we endure
Through vows of contempt to never surrender
Vacate questions fly by trees terse unknown
Retrea...
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Categories:
redound, conflict, courage, self,
Form: Ballad
Fight Goliath
...Hold it jumping knife
Lead me now
Off pride quality resembling stationary trains
Under velvet willows
xylem yields Zephaniah
Angelic baritone can decorate
Everything from gi...
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Categories:
redound, fun, word play,
Form: ABC
How We Stand
...The baseball glove I never wore
Is kept within this box
With a first place ribbon partly torn
From the medal at the top...
And a letter mom asked me to mail
That had begged you to come home
B...
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Categories:
redound, absence
Form: Light Verse
A Walk Through the Snowy Copse
...Into the snow white castle only tepid feet bound
Head mirror of quilted bed reflects a glimmering compound
Satin blanket spreads over each frozen mound
A blinding glare from the silted bed doth rebou...
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Categories:
redound, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
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