Fly Systems
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WHEN THE WInD BLEW THROUGH THE HOLLOW REEDS
written by: Pannus Sphinx
native to regions of habitual areas the Brya ebenus t...
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Categories:
rosewood, business, character, devotion, film,
Form: Bio
From Rose to Rosewood
...Pigtails sat tightly on her head
Curls poking through
And framing her face.
The bear kept her company,
Sat close by her head.
The dolls sat carefully placed
Drinking tea around the table.
Her ...
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Categories:
rosewood, emotions, flower, goodbye, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Sunlight On The Collectors Quill
...Patience meets a quietude of Rosewood,
a quill twixt fingers, held in the left hand.
The trophy collector shares his boyhood,
as a quill fairs right assign no men's land.
A quill twixt fingers,...
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Categories:
rosewood, analogy,
Form: Pantoum
Exotic Escape
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All I remember is rampant rain and a loud bang.
As dawn distilled through a canopy of palm trees,
glimpses of light reflected like emeralds on leaves.
I felt blessed in its warm golden glow,
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Categories:
rosewood, dream,
Form: Free verse
I now whisper a verse, like a curtain of shooting stars
...I now whisper a verse, like a curtain of shooting stars,
Weaving with a rhyme, an echo from worlds locked in the distance afar.
To clasp your treasure, your sublime feminine essence,
Through rosew...
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Categories:
rosewood, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Other Gift
...And one fine day into your hands
I'll place your special gift
You picked it out, she was your choice
Possession then will shift
She's got six strings, she plays real nice
Spruce top, the rest...
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Categories:
rosewood, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Sharing Butterina
...Butterina is not the faerie you see every day on Manhattan streets
you would not be spotting her sharing a Celtic Irish dance either
No matter how fey you are, Butterina might escape your notice
F...
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Categories:
rosewood, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Stars of Clarity
...Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than t...
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Categories:
rosewood, analogy, appreciation, beauty, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Music in Me
...O singing
strings of my violin heart
let the vibrant breeze
of mellifluous air
embrace your deep rosewood skies
orchestrated in dulcet warmth….
Childhood can be ...
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Categories:
rosewood, child, children, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Fresh As May
...I was born in everlasting springtime, as happenstance often does to others,
Like natural green halls wherein joy sings, to its wilder sisters and brothers.
I was situated in mellowed sunshine, li...
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Categories:
rosewood, beauty, fantasy, flower, joy,
Form: Couplet
Devil's Door
...A Hundred-year-old rosewood door
Was found today in an old liquor store.
Buried Beneath the basement floor
so, the story goes
For a century she laid dead
shot up with bullet holes and blood s...
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Categories:
rosewood, addiction, america, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Saturday Nights At Barney's
...Saturday nights at Barney’s
Rowdy Cowboy Honky-Tonk,
Our band sang soulful love songs
That cried while our guitars wailed.
We oozed moods for fresh lovers,
And throbbing hearts on the mend,
Thr...
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Categories:
rosewood, heart, love, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Transcendence
...I the ordinary human being of flesh-and-blood,
Rise from vital self, like a flower blooming from the bud;
Make my inner self to extend its hold far from mundane,
And grow, like rosewood, tall towa...
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Categories:
rosewood, life, relationship, religious, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Octavia - a Haunting
...What’s left of Octavia glides down the hall
Past the portraits she painted in life,
Now framed in mahogany, rosewood, and oak,
And they’re hers for the haunting tonight.
She looks for the canva...
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Categories:
rosewood, allegory, art, gothic,
Form: Lyric
Cup In the Curio Cabinet
...*Image of Waterford Curio by Houzz.
Cup in the Curio Cabinet
An empty cup daintily accompanies
an assemblage of finery,
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Categories:
rosewood, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Imagism
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