Not This Rose
...I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my innocence.
My heart burnt for a feel o...
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Categories:
ridging, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
...Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural pallia...
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Categories:
ridging, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Wood With a Mellow Breath
...With palms so chaste and a grip so pure
She wraps her fingers around the mallets
Letting them sit in the space between her thumbs and first fingers;
When she makes her first few strokes
Hammering...
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Categories:
ridging, africa, nostalgia, poems,
Form: Free verse