Pause Between Summer and Autumn
...Seasons Now and After 8-11-25 Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
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Pause Between Summer and Autumn
Summer sighs ~ she pauses to gaze on days
When sunligh...
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Categories:
savors, autumn, summer,
Form: Other
Scars on Starry Skies
..."People expect all stories of abuse
to be loud and angry
but they're not.
Sometimes they're quiet and cruel
and swept under the rug." ~ Trista Mateer
When the...
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Categories:
savors, abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Feast of Power
...Walls breathe insistent hunger,
red as the inside of a split pomegranate,
richer still where the tallow has melted,
slick as the fat from a burnt offering.
Scarpia does not eat.
He savors—sou...
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Categories:
savors, anxiety, character, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse
Our Love is Like Curry
...Our love is like a bowl of curry
Sour and salty, then sweet and spicy
It lingers and savors slowly
Explodes a burst of umami
Perhaps the lemongrass and lime
Gives aroma of our passing time
Wha...
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Categories:
savors, food, love,
Form: Free verse
Held Together Like Daisy Chains
...pluck me like a ripened fruit from the garden
that the sun shone on early in the morning
and you would sigh in relief at the harvest
because i was good to you
see me as fondly as the first buds...
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Categories:
savors, emotions, fate, how i
Form: Free verse
Midnight snacks
...The beauty of the evening,
The blushing horizon in the west
I adore much the taste
Of sugary sweets blended
In the black coffee
In the mug of beautiful evening
Moistens my thirsty throat,
To a...
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Categories:
savors, allegory, art, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Missy Sue
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Missy Sue makes malted milk shakes
and she savors marmalade,
macaroons and snickerdoodles
and sweet souffles she has made.
Sue is messy slicing melons,
strawberries and mangoes too.
Sue mun...
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Categories:
savors, girl,
Form: Alliteration
Periwinkle Confessions
... I remember Cupid’s scent when December stars sailed,
above vast seas of scars rippling with past mistakes,
awaiting the euphonious moon to cr...
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Categories:
savors, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
savors, dark,
Form: Free verse
Alfred Joyce Kilmer Tribute 'Trees'
...Alfred Joyce Kilmer Tribute ''Trees'' via rehash VIDEO presentation:
Alfred Joyce Kilmer, penned name, 'Joyce Kilmer,'
was killed by a sniper's bullet in WWI at 31 years old,
20 July 30, 1...
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Categories:
savors, analogy, death, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme
An Ice Cream Dream
...Though they come in the same container
And each on its own is a taste sensation
Not everyone savors the different flavors
In a Neapolitan nation...
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Categories:
savors, america,
Form: Rhyme
Panorama of Primrose Promises
... In the valley
of violin vines,
when the saffron sun ascends,
and crooning clouds
drift in mulberry cadence,
I let my quivering quill harmonize
mystical moonbeams
splattered...
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Categories:
savors, music,
Form: Free verse
Ode to a Pressure Cooker
...In my kitchen, there's a treasure,
scrumptious dinner, it helps me prepare.
Under pressure it combines flavors,
Serves proudly, mouthwatering savors.
This wonder made of stainless steel,
Shine...
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Categories:
savors, food, joy, thank you,
Form: Ode
Povero Diavolo
...Behind the mask made of many ears
Calla lilies earnestly listen
Their canals thirst for morning’s song
For the manic moon stared upon us
with hollow light transfixed
Behind the mask of valley’d ...
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Categories:
savors, art, dream, flower, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Parables of My Soul
...In the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography.
On the edge of the prec...
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Categories:
savors, 12th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse
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