Dividing Line
...Bright lights, flames in motion.
Arms weighted with emotion,
as each carries
their burdensome torch.
Lit alleyways, littered by mayhem,
breached by commonsense.
Is it too late
to chase sci...
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Categories:
revery, imagery, truth,
Form: Free verse
Thanks John
...Clearly in my memory,
a moment of discovery,
in spiritual revery,
and I was not alone.
A kid, when I first heard his sound,
with mountains all around,
it was something new I found,
Country R...
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Categories:
revery, music, sunshine, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
On Devil's Night
...On Devil’s Night
There once was a devil queen on Whispering Lane
Mean and cunning her crew driven insane
For millenniums hurling malice
Content in her palace
Casting a malevolent...
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Categories:
revery, angel, anger, anxiety, evil,
Form: Limerick
The Memory of Rain
...I like the smell of rain
That permeates my nose
a little time before miraculously fat drops
start falling on my head .
They bring a joyful feeling that I can not explain.
those clouds have ...
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Categories:
revery, boat, emotions, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Sight For Sore Eyes
...Milky Way dream spots
and other-worlds engaged me
this earthbound urchin
science fiction plots might stir
a pure childhood fantasy
But golden aura
folks can sense that Christmas treat
t...
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Categories:
revery, care, celebration, character, child,
Form: Tanka
If the World Should End Tomorrow
...If, by chance, the world should end tomorrow
How would you spend the last day of your life ~~
Either in revelry or regret? in jubilation or sorrow?
With time cut short, your day bec...
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Categories:
revery, earth, future, world,
Form: Villanelle
Classic Romance Revery
...You've always known me as I have known you,
we must've sent glances ten thousand times.
Beyond all our days done, both bright and blue;
regal fates fail in moving my windchimes.
The ringing we ...
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Categories:
revery, class, fate, feelings, longing,
Form: Sonnet
God Heard Our Mama Pray
...Summer 1967
None of us ready for heaven
We headed down that old highway
A fun road trip, a summer day
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Categories:
revery, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
A Patch of Moonlight
...A Patch of Moonlight
A patch of moonlight glimmers in pale shades of ivory
Then drips from feathery pine boughs in soft revery;
Nightingales fill solitude with pure symphonies
Still serenity of...
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Categories:
revery, moon, night, stars,
Form: Rhyme
In a Revery,The Last Post
...A tragedy
alone and dying
far from home
all you can hear
sotto voce
in a revery
The Last Post....
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Categories:
revery, life,
Form: Free verse
A Sappho Song Tribute
...sorrows
of the night
dew
falls
tenderly
upon hearts
of loneliness
breath
words
soft spoken
disperse
the light
into
purple
shadows
soft
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Categories:
revery, poetess, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Fading From a Distance
...We held the ash of paling revery
how fast, through shadows blowing out the night
but then, it faded; lost in times remote
in places where I had been known to you.
But flash and fade, ...
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Categories:
revery, hurt, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Dreams of Library Ladies
...The Dreams of Library Ladies
Library ladies could it be you sometimes dream
With books (and children) all put in their place
Do you imagine an alternate library scene
A view transformed to more...
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Categories:
revery, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Gone
...No time for breakfast, snatch a cereal bar,
anger at mislaid keys to the car.
He vents his spleen at anything that moves
she dishes out a look that disapproves.
The children eat their toast, the...
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Categories:
revery, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Soul Transporter
...What is Love?, but the transporter of the Spirit
Neither Fair or Foul the Truth of it is that we Fear It
When a woman of young age doth see what she desires
No heed nor helm in many a realm will...
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Categories:
revery, allegory, allusion, death, humanity,
Form: Narrative
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