Days In A Life
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some days
you quiver
as melancholy runs
it's cold hand on your skin.
some days...
resplendently sunny;
spirits and bright smiles
as warm as a Summer afternoon.
some days
you ...
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Categories:
resplendently, encouraging, life, uplifting, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Gemini Garden
...“Hope floats from purple petals to ebony buds” —Silent One
Scents of jasmine overwhelm boldly
along the granite trail made from ebony buds.
Under Jupiter June’s skyline orbits an alignment
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Categories:
resplendently, cute, fantasy, garden, myth,
Form: Free verse
All Saints Day
...How lovely is the dwelling place
Where saints and blessed ones rest in grace
Peace, joy and love overflowing
While we on earth here are groaning
Each one wearing a crown of glory
For vices co...
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Categories:
resplendently, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Imbibing the Cliffs Enthrall
...Heart
Pulse throbbing, breathlessly imbibing the cliff’s enthrall. The crashing of momentous waves against the bolder rocks. The passionate heaving of whisking foam and the swollen coolness...
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Categories:
resplendently, emotions, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ode To a Mango Tree
...Mango tree,
Lovely and beautiful,
As a salsa lady,
You are exotic,
And tropical splendors,
Your leathery sultry petals,
With fine and rare warmth,
Dress the body,
Of your surreal canopy,
In ...
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Categories:
resplendently, beauty, moon, nature, tree,
Form: Ode
My Princess
...Moonlight across the tranquil ocean,
Will provide jewels for your crown.
Deep cyan colors of the sea in motion,
Will create blue velvet for a royal gown.
I will create a vision tender with gr...
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Categories:
resplendently, princess,
Form: Sonnet
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus
Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f...
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Categories:
resplendently, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Woe Time Is Running Out
...The hourglass becomes resplendently empty
As the sand flows through with their kempty
Grains, dry as a corn shuck, flow
Seemingly they know
Time's reduced
Woe!
Earth los...
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Categories:
resplendently, perspective,
Form: Other
Don't Quit Your Daydream
...Just imagine...
Flowers of possibilities blooming
In the garden of your imagination.
Fun travel on nostalgia's time machine,
The sheer magic of moments
As if sand turning into gold dust.
Quiet ...
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Categories:
resplendently, analogy, dream, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Fall Drive On a Country Road
...As I step outside, I feel a chill in the air.
It's a perfect time for an afternoon drive.
With the top down on this glorious day,
I realize summer has reached its end.
Leaves are strewn a...
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Categories:
resplendently, autumn, senses,
Form: Free verse
Kindred Spirits
...Yours is my sacred non-zero soul
core center shared
within
Surrounded by your robust
fertile
masculine energy
Not to exploit
and yet not too shy
Not too retractive
nor extractive,
eq...
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Categories:
resplendently, deep, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
God Loves Me
..."God's love fills me with gratitude" - Quote by author
Gracious Lord with love overflowing while devising,
created this universe mesmerizing
Every single element thoughtfully crafted,
an ep...
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Categories:
resplendently, god,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher...
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Categories:
resplendently, cute love, desire, god,
Form: Epigram
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Mak...
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Categories:
resplendently, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Medieval Poems Ii
...Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he appr...
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Categories:
resplendently, angel, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme
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