Unending Light
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Light falls across the meadows,
reflecting the gentlest shades of majestic
avocado and olive and jade, all the greens
melting through the shadows,
caressing the endless melodies of peace...
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Categories:
retells, appreciation, god, hope, light,
Form: Free verse
In the Stillness of My Spirit
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Every heartbeat reminds me, He is the life
When I feel dark, blind – He heals all my strife.
Every breath prompts me to know He is love
Creator, Savior, the Son, sent by God above.
Every th...
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Categories:
retells, appreciation, christian, faith, inspirational
Form: Couplet
Genius of Dawn's Rising
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In the blinded moments,
Before the mist rises over the tumbling surf…
Blueness tempting awake my dreams,
A heartbeat from the flaming blaze,
Sunshine pouring through the clusters ...
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Categories:
retells, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Dear Heart
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Oh, my dear heart,
within your beating rhythm my serenity dwells;
I mend you from falling apart,
as old memories my soul retells.
Because of you blood fl...
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Categories:
retells, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme
Burns Night
...Each year, an evening bright as any star,
in song and verse retells the tale once more,
with homage paid to one man’s repertoire.
Humbling and uplifting, his thoughts restore
our universal onene...
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Categories:
retells, anniversary, humanity, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Rusty Gate
...How I used to care for this finely beautiful gate, once!
Couldn't ever see it rusty, dingy, dusty, dirty;
Creaking of this gate left me psychically in a dunce,
I sandpapered; cleansed; oiled; kep...
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Categories:
retells, anxiety, death, depression, family,
Form: Sonnet
Still-Thankful For
...Two-thousand twenty-one, scratching my head.
Let’s back up all the way up to January. Mom and Dad
working consistently to beat the ovarian cancer-monster.
Still the clink
of anniversary cheers...
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Categories:
retells, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
In the Zoo
...Thanks God it's Friday!
Good time was spent in natural zoo
I calmly watched some of cool wild animals,
Birds, cats, monkeys ,and few more..
It was fantastic show
Full-moon gray baboon rete...
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Categories:
retells, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Living In the Dark
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It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.
Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see what life impels,
emotion’s plea, our dee...
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Categories:
retells, anxiety, dark,
Form: Monorhyme
Burns' Night
...Each year, an evening bright as any star,
with song and verse retells the tale once more,
with homage paid to one man's repertoire.
Humbling and uplifting, his thoughts restore
our universal one...
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Categories:
retells, anniversary, community, humanity, international,
Form: Rhyme
First Fruits
...FIRST FRUITS
In number small - God’s chosen men,
doth storm the earth with words and pen.
Strong tithe retells of glory reaped.
Offered first fruits of those who sleep.
We gather...
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Categories:
retells, christian,
Form: Kyrielle
God's Zen Voice
...Once upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God's election and predestination.
Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privilege...
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Categories:
retells, blessing, culture, gender, god,
Form: Political Verse
The Violet Kingdom
...THE VIOLET KINGDOM
purple spreads on a
flower bed in a child’s room
~ violets in bloom ~
ivy climbs the wall
surroundings of her kingdom
~ a barbie princess ~
the story...
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Categories:
retells, childhood, good night, princess,
Form: Haiku
Zoo
...Thanks God it's Friday!
Good time was spent in natural zoo
I calmly watched some of wild animals,
Birds, cats, monkeys ,and few more.. It was fantastic show
Full-moon gray baboon retells his old,...
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Categories:
retells, adventure, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Denouement
...Denouement
The plot thickens broadens in plastered confused juxtapositions
over time there and then weaves tapestries lost unfound caught
Viscous tears dried out shed rivers searching oases oc...
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Categories:
retells, change,
Form: Free verse
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