Self Love
...Where was I?
unusual.
behind
the dizzying looking glass,
cement block,
panelled windows,
noonish saloons
sipping my loathing
like mosquitoes
milking stone veins
consti...
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Categories:
ruminant, emotions, girl, self,
Form: Free verse
A Fell Star Three Bags Full
...Frayed border prints paste illusion,
worn-out inks swirling bleeds,
The hauls, stareways, persuasion,
privileged balconies.
Antiquities of read reviews,
claims of a r...
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Categories:
ruminant, age, animal, irony, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Counting Sheep
...It's one in the morning
And I can't get to sleep
So I've tried various things
Like counting some sheep,
But they just won't stay still
They keep 'milling around
Backwards and forwards
All ov...
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Categories:
ruminant, fun, humor, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Ruminant Child
...
Mary possessed a ruminant child
its fuzziness was sickly pale
and as Mary moved about
the child would take the same trail.
He tracked her to a learning place
that broke the laws of it.
The...
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Categories:
ruminant, cute, fun, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Acrostic-Stole My Heart
...ACROSTIC-Stole My Heart
Stole My Heart
S imple test of faith
T olerant compassions plate
O bsicals overcame now won
L ate passions being done
E levate hard darkling hearts
M y God has rece...
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Categories:
ruminant, adventure, allusion, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Acrostic
Histrionic Human Spirit M
...Those who live an artistic life are genuinely soul-aware.
It is as vital to the human spirit as is the air.
Artistry, sculpture, and landscape design are creative,
That's around spir...
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Categories:
ruminant, analogy, appreciation, beauty, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Rumi, My Roomie
...I stared at the wall, it stared back at me.
I was so lonesome longed for a roomie.
And as I despaired, with feelings of dread,
I heard a low moan at foot of my bed.
Wonder of wonders, beheld ...
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Categories:
ruminant, books, dream, fantasy, humor,
Form: Masnavi
Long Legged Ruminant
...Long-legged ruminant
So, you think a camel is an ugly animal
with kissable lips and the eyes of
Marilyn Monroe, and yield low-fat milk
I bet you didn’t know this.
When four wheels stop in the...
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Categories:
ruminant, best friend, child, dream,
Form: Sonnet
A Spring Day
...Once upon a spring arcadian green
a last veil winter hoar melts on the bud -
Romney low country lambs fattened to wean
chew in flocks upon the ruminant cud.
In stone moss stream, wild aro...
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Categories:
ruminant, life, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
Sun Salutation
...Centered, I envision my next flux for the illuminant
Deepening each stretch, I angle to the ruminant
Breaths breathed deep, I press into a bent round
Clearing my mind space, hands grasping at the ...
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Categories:
ruminant, sun,
Form: Couplet
Cud
...like a ruminant you digest your own cud
you think that life has things in store for you
baby, it's been game over long time ago
go to your cuffin and void your burdens
every action is still born...
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Categories:
ruminant, depression,
Form: Free verse
My Blue Cheese Is- Tripe
...when it comes to food my biggest gripe
is how anyone can eat disgusting tripe,
lining of the stomach of ruminant cows
gastric juices of mine would not arouse,
if I was served this awful food ...
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Categories:
ruminant, food, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Greed
...A child I do not know his citizenship
travels nations rummaging, rampaging
he has no origin but has relatives
but the child knows not how to share
Omnivorous, carnivorous and ruminant
his tee...
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Categories:
ruminant, desire, irony, power,
Form: Personification
Road
...My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to...
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Categories:
ruminant, age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio
Bossie
...COCKADOODLE DOOOOOOOOO! COCKADOODLE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That big red rooster greets each morn that way,
Waking all of us...and the farmer too,
Just so we can all start the day.
A beckoning c...
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Categories:
ruminant, animal, appreciation, day, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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