Perfect In Every Way
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She's like the essence of a coral rose
a latent bloomer with a heart of gold
And when she speaks to me in prose
deep inside, she opens doors of old
Rosy cheeked and full of vitality
a t...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, analogy, appreciation, rose,
Form: Sonnet
A Memory Tree For Milton
...A joy it is to see
planted in his honor
A Memorial Tree
Roots, memories of Milton
and a kind act for the ecosystem
Forget-Me-Nots shall be written
by your poetry pals, ‘till then
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, eulogy, memorial,
Form: Epitaph
Paris At Christmas
...Paris at Christmas
city of lights for a week
streets decorated
Eiffel Tower lit
like a Christmas tree aglow
tourists staring up
shoppers bustling crowds
bells ring; children c...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, christmas, paris,
Form: Senryu
Conqueror of Death
...O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Cor. 15:55
1 Dread conqueror! Destroyer of all,
Thou---the king who conquers every king
Thou---restrained by no wall
Thee a ca...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, bird, christian, death, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Related By Choice
...RELATED BY CHOICE
For my adopted grandmother Nancy Enloe
I met you at a friend’s house,
standing stately on your cane,
tall and rosy-cheeked like me.
In your smile, I basked and thought,
“L...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, family, friendship, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Lyric
Wedding Dress
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"Wedding Dress"
Innocence
betrayed a white page
divesting romantic notions
of a pristine life marked
by sibilant soft-tongued seduction
gr...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, desire, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Laughing At Ducks
...We walked through the park, it had just turned noon,
In a cloudless blue sky, sat a pale crescent moon.
Dressed 'gainst the cold we tramped through the snow,
Tingling cold fingers, our noses aglow...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, imagery, joy, winter,
Form: Couplet
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...Misogynist cult
pawns, rosy cheeked petals, for
a cold pallid bane....
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, betrayal, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Haiku
Winter Magic
...Winter’s snow softly falls, flurries
invite me to a magic kingdom -
naïve of bitterness. Cold and warmth
tethered together - in lover’s arms, in hats and coats,
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, winter,
Form: Acrostic
Snowdrift Dreams
...Shivering moonbeams twinkle,
whispered snowflakes flutter in their light
Hand in hand we stroll along flurried wishes,
leaving footprints of desire
I wrap you in my arms
as ice crystals s...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, love, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Sea of Love
...Sea Of Love
Holidays on gilt kissed shores
In the season of suns
Is a dream after every wintery travail
With springy feet I had scoured the soft sands
Running a relays with assorted sea-sho...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, brother, child, life, love,
Form: Free verse
In the Dark Night Sky
...In the Dark Night Sky
In the Dark Night Sky, a “Pale Moon” now arises suddenly,
With clouds of ice sparkling in a frozen-cold ring around it;
While your bright, rosy-cheeked face appears as a ...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, allegory, change, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
April
...APRIL
a long time coming
she is rosy cheeked and chill
breath quite treacherous
fickle april of my dreams
fondest promise unfulfilled...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Memories
...Ginger ‘s hair now grey, bragging
Impishly, how she had worn a mini
Never short of partners when
Going out until small hours dancing
Enjoying the infamy of being a rebel ...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, remember,
Form: Acrostic
Sleep
...Sleep
The violet purple sky above lay eyes to play with the sun
The darkened garnet green of the fields are for animals to seek and run
The warmest orange flame of a fire to sit beside when work is...
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Categories:
rosy cheeked, sleep,
Form: I do not know?
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