He, the Word
...Christ, the word, lived in the celestial world.
His graces, like petals, slowly unfurled.
He was one with the Father and Spirit.
To His fervent grace, there was no limit.
In the form of the bre...
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Categories:
rivulets, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Rippling Refrain
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Written: August 5, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
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River,
rippling refrain,
rushing, rolling, revived,
ribbons of rain rearranging
ro...
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Categories:
rivulets, river,
Form: Rictameter
Sea Smiles
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Strolling upon the shore at night,
cavorting crabs come into sight.
White-capped waves kiss the sultry shore,
whisper nothings in gentle roar.
Digging clams discover their holes,
hiding away w...
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Categories:
rivulets, environment, feelings, fish, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Idyllic
...The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." Hellen Keller
Snow-tipped mountains ranged around the prairie,
Smal...
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Categories:
rivulets, flower, imagery, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Stillbirth Memories of 1987
...Within my own axis,
It did not slant
It did not drizzle.
The void shunned the grey clouds.
Lightning was rare.
Thunder turned mute.
Leaf-tops shook with the sleepiness of
Shameless drunks, cas...
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Categories:
rivulets, community, growing up, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
He, the Word
...He, the word lived in the celestial world.
He was one with the Father and Spirit.
His facets, like petals, slowly unfurled.
To His fervent grace, there was no limit.
In the form of the breez...
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Categories:
rivulets, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
The World Is Bleeding
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who's got a tourniquet?
the world bleeds out of her limb.
she's anemic. the ship of world peace
has sailed; existential chaos reigns supreme.
recourse to arms now the go-to solu...
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Categories:
rivulets, angst, death, horror, humanity,
Form: Lyric
In The Mouth of Desire
...Plump cherries sit atop twin mounds
and a sly smile hovers around her
ripe strawberry lips,
Sweat, like honey, titillatingly
rolls in rivulets down her
lithe and luscious torso to
an oasis, m...
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Categories:
rivulets, desire,
Form: Free verse
diamond diadem of dawn
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I'm white s m o k e ,
a silhouette of titanium wings,
tethered to the snowy flesh of a flawless dandelion,
whose skin still remembers ~
the thawing of winter from its glass-cut edges,...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, destiny, life, light,
Form: Free verse
In stars above
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Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin,
as the silhouettes
of d...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, emotions, imagery, moon,
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...
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Categories:
rivulets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
TOUCH OF NOCTURNAL VELVET
...A cascade, shimmering, of rivulets that undulate,
Metaphor thalassic, richly blending at the pate.
Each silhouette of vitality, speaking with gentle weight,
On shoulders resting, an adornment, del...
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Categories:
rivulets, hair,
Form: Other
Illusions on Rivulet Path
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Written: May 15, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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I’m neither harmonious nor a hidden hymn
Who said I'm wedded to whimsy, lil...
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Categories:
rivulets, analogy, character,
Form: Ode
Trance dance
...As we trance dance, in our dream world,
in truth we are always alone,
propelled along a path unique,
in time coming into our own.
Shifting hues of scarlet sunset,
rivulets flowing down a hill,...
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Categories:
rivulets, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
The Door of Uncertainty
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The Door of Uncertainty
I stand at the door of uncertainty
I have a difficult choice to make
My sweaty palm grasps the handle
My heart and the clock beat rapidly in sync
Time is my enemy, ...
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Categories:
rivulets, humorous,
Form: Free verse
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