Facing Poverty
... If I went barefoot for a lifetime,
shoes would be pointless.
Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline.
Me, Tarzan to pedicurist!
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Categories:
regnant, africa, appreciation, black love,
Form: Free verse
HONEY SWEET QUEEN DREG-
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Honey
sweet honey
food of love, nectar
sugar well amix amino antioxidants.
fruit of relationship
Sweet
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Categories:
regnant, analogy, appreciation, character, metaphor,
Form: Diamante
Depth of Desire
...I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.”
~ Pablo Neruda
He quoted an intimate line from a Pablo Ner...
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Categories:
regnant, desire,
Form: Free verse
Hobson's Choice
...We are never allowed a voice
When gasping for our final breath
And Hobson didn't offer a choice
We are never allowed a voice
There is no reason to rejoice
For in the regnant grasp of deat...
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Categories:
regnant, anxiety, death,
Form: Triolet
Golden Love
...Love like in Mine
Glittering
Glistering
In Mine
The heart
Love's dear
Heaven feels near
Pain subdued
Love regnant
Soul's emperor
Body's lord.
Drencho POET Loads...
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Categories:
regnant, love,
Form: Romanticism
Oxygen
...Two joined elements swirl around
Into its lungs with wisp of sound
Turning its blood from blue to red
Preserving life as cells are sped
And though not regnant is the right
Concentration to giv...
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Categories:
regnant, society,
Form: Rhyme
Regal
...R- Regnant-reigning
E- Elevated-Equated
G- Grandiose-Galore
A- Aristocratic-authoritative
L- Loyal
4/5/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
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Categories:
regnant, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Spring Is Coming Soon
...Smelling so fresh, sounding her melody,
Parading herself, floral gallery,
Releasing the strength stored in seeds,
I’m always amazed; Spring’s toil seems carefree.
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Categories:
regnant, beauty, bird, earth, flower,
Form: Acrostic
Quintessentially Tempestuous Nature
...Captured in twinkling apricot diamonds dappling cosmoses
& ocean's tumultuous roar of foaming cerulean furor,
prolific winds that howl & soar atop empurpled elevations
mid streams th...
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Categories:
regnant, appreciation, earth, mountains, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Blind Men Can Dance
...When I hold you tightly
In pursuit of life’s dance
I spy just by perchance
Your ice blue eyes slightly
Against the clement moon
Whose beam of love by chance
Sets this stage of nuance
Yet passe...
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Categories:
regnant, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Merry Queen of Squash
...Pumpkin, merry queen of squash,
regnant on accord.
With a smooth and ribb-ed rind
clad in pepo-orange,
two strikes to sever
from the vine.
Gourd!
*Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded b...
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Categories:
regnant, food, funny, history, cousin,
Form: Epulaeryu