The Wonder of Creation
...I climb high up the tortuous path
Of a ragged hillock and
In pensive solitude I look around
Upon the universe that surround me.
There from on high
I spy so many mysterious wonders
That God ...
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Categories:
ripens, creation,
Form: Free verse
War
...A cloud bursts,
and the earth drinks --
the sun shines,
and the earth ripens;
the moon, sanctuary
of werewolves and Love,
keeps alive our fictions.
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Categories:
ripens, character, environment, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Dawn to Dusk
...Pop!
sunshine
and birdsong
awaken them.
The boy gardener,
the sprout breaking the earth,
with the birds, they arise first,
leaving their beds to gather sun,
reflecting, quietly excited,
soil...
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Categories:
ripens, garden, life, nature, sunset,
Form: Etheree
Whispers in the moonlight
...Amidst the tranquil moonlit night, the forest murmured secrets.
The leaves rustled in hushed conversation,
the shadows in exuberance
darting from trunk to trunk,
languishing wherever the moonligh...
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Categories:
ripens, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
ROBINS IN THE CHERRY LAUREL TREE
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Near the end of our walk the other day we were blessed to see
hundreds of robins enjoying breakfast in a cherry laurel tree.
In Florida this time of year the fruit of the Carolina Cherry Laurel...
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Categories:
ripens, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Three Apples
...
Eden's fruit gleams red —
Knowledge wounds deeper and sharper than now
Silicon dreams wake
Gravity's whisper
Via a slew of logical falls
Into neural nets
Jobs' crystal garden
...
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Categories:
ripens, fruit,
Form: Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day Begins
Sand grains station elevated for want
in the cool starless relics spell of dark
a sun behold horizo...
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Categories:
ripens, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Falling Away
...A rusted breeze ripens with early frosts
Ill-fated trees wilt begetting their loss
Rich fermented decay's putrified bloom
Bidding farewell to the song of the loon
The belching pond spurts summe...
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Categories:
ripens, autumn, celebration, environment, flower,
Form: Sonnet
Between Reality and Understanding
...A thought arose...
In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!
While S...
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Categories:
ripens, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse
Apples to oranges gruk
...Not all fruit ripens at the same time, so don't look down on me ...
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Categories:
ripens, allegory, bible, christian, irony,
Form: Grook
A Place Not Meant To Be: 01
...#1: A Day Begins
Sand grains station elevated for want
in the cool starless relics spell of dark
a sun behold horizon that dews haunt
favoring a virgin's touch settled spark
illu...
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Categories:
ripens, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beach,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Uterus Fruits
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First picked Summertime cherry
Dew glimmer marble blood clot
Taut fruit platter embitters sweating cheese
Liver pate shivers jiggle jelly
Nep...
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Categories:
ripens, cute, loss,
Form: Verse
Weather Worries
...The milk’s gone off today, I don’t know where it’s going
It booked a cab to Stansted, then climbed aboard a Boeing.
He doesn’t have a passport, I’m sure he’ll be ejected
The milk’s gone off ...
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Categories:
ripens, africa, beach, environment, future,
Form: Rhyme
Our Mother a Literary Translation of Humayun Azad
...We knew more about our mother. While, father was a revered persona , a bit distant.
Our mother was always an undertone in front of father, an unrecognized delicate privacy, worn out
Her lingering i...
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Categories:
ripens, mother,
Form: Free verse
Summer Comparisons
...I relish spring's green growth; plants at their best
and babies after mama birds build nests.
But I cherish summer trips on fishing boats,
going barefoot, bare arms, no caps or coats.
Fall em...
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Categories:
ripens, 11th grade, fishing, garden,
Form: Sonnet
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