TOMORROW REARS YESTERDAY
...TOMORROW REARS YESTERDAY
When life challenges sway us aback
With horizons of tomorrow seem plague
We seek answers that never come
While hope fleets us inwardly
And we grief motherly
Forgetti...
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Categories:
reprint, courage, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Artchard
...You've heard of an orchard/
I've stirred up an artchard with girthed art to be heard/
Words come in with fun as the function never turned defunct/
Metaphors and puns run an injunction to sever cl...
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Categories:
reprint, adventure, art, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Campo Alegre Reprint
...Campo Alegre re-printed
Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A dry barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under the houses
G...
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Categories:
reprint, anger, betrayal, gender, prejudice,
Form: Imagism
Revising the Book of Life
...1.
Rumor has it on heavens above,
Among the angels’ divine sphere,
That God after very much though
Decided in man’s life to interfere.
2.
For He has observed Man’s mistakes,
That late...
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Categories:
reprint, abuse, betrayal, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
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“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
for...
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Categories:
reprint, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Forevermore Love
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his gentle way, his kind soul,
falling in love was easy;
walks in rain, snow and sunshine,
oh, I miss my love . . .
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August 21, 2021 - Reprint
Poet...
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Categories:
reprint, love,
Form: Dodoitsu
I Am a Yesterday Dreamer
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And in my dream- I am a yesterday dreamer,
I am transported to a long ago summer;
and become lost in a sea of blooms and glitter,
where I roam touching each fragile flower.
I kn...
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Categories:
reprint, dream, garden,
Form: Monorhyme
''Of Mind''
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mindful
of voices
within my head
that float and drift like clouds
fleeting
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August 15, 2021 Reprint
Poetry/Cinqu/"of mind'
Copyright Protected, ID 08-1...
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Categories:
reprint, how i feel,
Form: Cinqku
Beautiful Scars
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These scars on my soul are beautiful and painful,
deep gashes that cannot be seen except in my eyes;
the sorrow I keep within me is dreadful,
my short life has been fu...
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Categories:
reprint, life,
Form: Pantoum
Slipping Into a Dream
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I am slipping into a dream
and floating away
for dreams are guests who come unbidden
and I hear a throbbing beat
and see deep blue ocean waves
and I am rolling, roll...
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Categories:
reprint, dream,
Form: Free verse
Climate Warming
...1.
Rumor has it on heavens above
Among the angels’ divine sphere
That God after very much though
Decided in man’s life to interfere
2.
For He has observed Man’s mistakes
Which lately ...
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Categories:
reprint, life, planet, weather,
Form: Quatrain
Haiku
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leaves are withering
in painted hues of orange ~
a song bird whistles
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June 28, 2021
Poetry/Haiku
Copyright Protected, ID 06-1367-485-28/Reprint
All Right...
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Categories:
reprint, nature,
Form: Haiku
For Father
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A clutter of wood and dust in cobwebby corners,
and dappled sun shining through dirty windows;
on his work table a drawing: a project in progress,
and tin cans and jars for nails and scr...
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Categories:
reprint, fathers day,
Form: Verse
For Jacqueline
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Jacqueline,
Oh, just the other day I came across a picture of you with your horse,
and I was amazed to see how much we look alike;
Mom, could it be true that you are mere words up...
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Categories:
reprint, mothers day,
Form: Verse
The Lord's Breath
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"See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing
has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."
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Categories:
reprint, spring,
Form: Sonnet
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