Good Ol' Rex
...He heard the car and came running,
Jumped and whirled in the air,
Barking his happiness!
Dad lifted her down in her yellow-flowered
Camisole and high heeled shoes.
The dog dropped,
His hind ...
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Categories:
reproachful, 8th grade, dog, happiness,
Form: Free verse
True Friendship
...True friendship is rare
It’s one in a million
A mirror image, a twinning
Mutual acknowledgement
In knowing
She’s the one
Who pays attention
Listens with intention
Can read your thoughts
Bef...
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Categories:
reproachful, appreciation, best friend, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Eggshell Waltz
...It’s a ballet of carefully choreographed mistakes
a tiptoe dance through a delicate maze
a sudden splinter to catch a thorn
barefoot floor where the eggshells are strewn
Playing the hide and s...
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Categories:
reproachful, hurt, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
Dopamine
...Did the creator(s) of his chemicals
wreck his chemicals ?
Or did he recklessly
wreck them on his own ?
He stormed almost violently
through the evening, half an hour after dark,
scowling and bar...
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Categories:
reproachful, lost,
Form: Free verse
Late Afternoon
...Late sunlight,
Mellow and smooth
Touches the placid afternoon
With fire sparkled warmth
A glow of white wine
On the shadow cooled breeze
A velvet scent
Of royal petunias
Drifts from among
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Categories:
reproachful, imagery, nature, summer, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Rock Through a Window
...it was not so much that it was pulled back
but that the release was a push
a spool of thread falling from the table
the gentle undulation of fiber through the air
that was the way you threw the r...
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Categories:
reproachful, family, memory, passion,
Form: Free verse
Until Time Is Done
...For Timothy Lee
Eyes meet over sips of morning coffee;
warmth travels thru both my body and heart
while you couch-settle around and near me.
I value sharing a perfect day’s...
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Categories:
reproachful, appreciation, emotions, joy, relationship,
Form: Quatrain
Oh, Madam Francis
...oh, Madam Francis, I stand flabbergasted!,
when I glance upon your shadow, gray,
I thought beauty for sure ever lasted,
but now I'm enveloped with dismay.
The ocean waves would shamelessly recede,
a...
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Categories:
reproachful, beauty, growing up, life,
Form: Light Verse
Breaking Wheel
...Faultfinding words—the sticks; reproachful glances—the stones,
each one flung through visors of human blinders.
Every emotional prick they create shatters the bones
as one more revolution ...
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Categories:
reproachful, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Invasion of Dreamland
...INVASION OF DREAMLAND
How is it that you still invade my dreams and stir up such feelings of desire?
Motives reproachful for me you had yet subconsciously suppressed you are'nt
Not a thought ...
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Categories:
reproachful, adventure, imagination, lost lovesleep,
Form: Light Verse
Inner Self Renowned
...Inner self renowned free; owned only by me in the thicket of the woods which is ticket to the
goods. Lovely dew drop, tear drop worries obliterated by the sun. Rings true that I don't
know what I...
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Categories:
reproachful, healthself, me, self,
Form: Free verse
The Poor Wretch
...Sluggish suppurating symbol of disgust,
Dragged wailing into a reproachful life
Child of wrath and sloth and lust
All she will ever know is
Strife
Curdled flesh clings to a brittle scaffold
P...
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Categories:
reproachful, angst, sad
Form: Free verse
Monsoon Season
...Torrents of melancholy brine cascade from leaden skies;
Mirroring the salty streams of tears that seep from my sapphire eyes;
Folded limbs of bruised porcelain reach out to feel the patter of the...
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Categories:
reproachful, depression, nature, sad, seasonsearth,
Form: Couplet
Ravens and Shadows.
...Silence breaks from atop the ancient Oak
I discern his small waiting shadow
Where others glimpse only spired branches
Tossing against the cerulean skyline
Sharp eyes of obsidian depths
Follow my...
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Categories:
reproachful, imagination, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Dolls
...When I was young, I had these dolls, in various guise and shapes,
The first was been the simplest; in it no single garment
or any ornament embedded, but only made of clay and heights four inches,
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Categories:
reproachful, loss, nature, nostalgia, places,
Form: Narrative
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