The Returning Smiles
...The Retuning Smiles
i see beneath pairs of almond-shaped, green leavess
On white fabric, flowers set with four heart-shaped petals,
The color of sun-kissed blueberries,
Decorating the smocked s...
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Categories:
retuning, child, flower, health, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Bring Me Home Mrr Contest
...For Mystic Rose Rose
Bring me Home
Poetry Contest
Tuesday
28th September 2021
Bring Me Home
Today back when
What I'd like to give you is
A subtle heady mix of perfume and cologne
B...
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Categories:
retuning, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Green Fairy
...The Green Fairy
If I were a flapper girl sipping on a dirty martini with a jade cigarette holder, would you still love me?
Singing a bluesy, swing song, while the gents in the room had a great...
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Categories:
retuning, appreciation, art, celebration, crush,
Form: Free verse
Father To the Man
...I grew up
having never become an adult,
the years to now betray
My body infirm,
my vision impaired,
my hair has turned to gray
I grew old
while living within myself,
false promises to none
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Categories:
retuning, age,
Form: Rhyme
2019 Year That Was
...the year that was
January
The world watches in amazement
Longest shut down in history
Watching it all in Korea
contemplating escaping the cold winter
February
World watches as North ...
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Categories:
retuning, age, america, angst, anniversary,
Form: Blank verse
Retuning
...i can tell
that the
sounds
around
aren't
the
vibrations
of old when
alchemists
tried to turn
anything and
everything
into gold...
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Categories:
retuning, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Secret
...Deep eerie dark night
But there are no stars burning bright
Not even moon shimmers with its silver blue light
All there is visage of sad and dreary night
To find happiness one must
Look to t...
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Categories:
retuning, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Beach
...With screams echoing through these halls,
Smoke begins to rise.
Retuning to these murder filled walls,
It's the past I have learnt to despise.
Lights flashing red, blue, and white.
Sitting up again...
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Categories:
retuning, dark, fear, grief, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Their Wings Are Silhouettes
...facing the
Firestone eyes of
the gray moon
Canadian geese
honk their
horns
retuning
back home
and soon,
their wings
are silhouettes
beating against
the wind...
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Categories:
retuning, imagination
Form: Free verse
Carpe Diem
...On a day back in the March of 2007, the world changed forever.
From the sky came a message to remember. It showed a day when
the Maya played a Great Game. They marked it Eleven to December.
Yes,...
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Categories:
retuning, fantasyday, children, night, children,
Form: I do not know?