A Pocket Full of Sunshine
...Lucy Locket lived amidst Lakeland Hills, where jay serenaded morning;
Like plum rainbows celebrate sunshine, with never any silent warning.
Lucy was merely twenty years old, like a peach ...
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Categories:
ripely, birthday, fantasy, friendship, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Valentine Fatale
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"Valentine Fatale"
Pull the violin
strings
from the heart
like a corset undone
there the softest rose,
blood red plucked,
the thorns played
and petals cast
as kit...
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Categories:
ripely, romance, sensual, valentines day,
Form: Romanticism
Pretty Rich
...sun on autumn leaves
struck it rich with gold on gold
hued blossoms shiver
chill winds wandering
with varicolored birds, far
time's slow surrender
on saying goodbye
nature leaves hued memo...
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Categories:
ripely, autumn, beauty, color, god,
Form: Haiku
Slow Gin and Astral Conversations
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"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations"
A maze me?
I’m the architect
of my own destiny
he beguiled her
incessantly
from the depths of
his bottled up Carceri
she ...
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Categories:
ripely, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Amaizing
...Swaying in the breeze
All regimented tufty haired straight
Planted securely a foothold in time
Stretching to heaven
Sun sky sublime
Stretch grow and wait
For the end
Tips ripely flaxen haired
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Categories:
ripely, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Richard and Carma Palmer Forever
...R- richness beauty,
prevails;
I- in love, we are, have we;
C- charisma n' sass', *yes we
do*, pon dis:
H- holy ground, before The
A- almighty grace, of family n'
friends, where peace...
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Categories:
ripely, beauty, faith, future, god,
Form: Acrostic
Fingers Make Some Music, Please
...sigh.
what can I say I haven't said before?
what ingenious pronouncement of metaphor?
the sighs of my life
keep knocking at the door
I want to be drunk with poems
that commit suicide,
hono...
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Categories:
ripely, love, nostalgia
Form: I do not know?
A Phantom of Red Dust
...She slid into a chapter
bound in the volume of life,
a single stanza in effortless grace
she dwelt,
among this paper kingdom
becoming a lady
rounded with words
and ripely shining
in a...
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Categories:
ripely, mystery
Form: Blank verse
Comet's Scrawl
...Darkness falls lame
broken by the full moon
tattered by clarity.
Constellations burn
branding blue satin.
Comets scrawl blank verse
Planets pulse ripely.
The painter stirs the paint pots
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Categories:
ripely, nature
Form: Choka