Different Quiets
...When it’s quiet in the city,
It’s a temporary hush,
A break from all the noises
Of the normal urban rush.
The bustle is suspended
For a holiday, perhaps,
Or the hour’s just so early,
From ...
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Categories:
scampers, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Rambling Reflections
...To where does my soul belong?
at times my meandering mind wonders…
Is it to the vast blue of the boundless sky
or the tangerine rays of the sun at the crack of dawn
or to those stars ...
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Categories:
scampers, introspection,
Form: Free verse
up the hill
...I’m listening to a song,
that’s captured my mood.
What’s the singer saying?
If it knew, I’d sing along.
but the slurry words elude.
It’s an artistic choice, I suppose,
and I don’t require deepe...
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Categories:
scampers, august, education, endurance, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Tchotchke
...Early morning thud...
the bedroom door opens wide...
ginger cat scampers
frightened by the sudden sound
of an overturned tchotchke...
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Categories:
scampers, cat,
Form: Tanka
Autumnal
...Summer; the season of the sun,
Spring; the season of new life
Winter; the season of struggle,
Autumn; the season of no strife
Step outside, take a glimpse of beauty,
The fresh breeze flow...
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Categories:
scampers, autumn, friendship, halloween, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Forgotten
...FORGOTTEN
Soar,
Soar like the wind.
I flit and dance, obeying my master.
Dipping, I glide over the lake;
In the mist of the morning.
This is my life.
Jerk, goes my line.
My neck stretches...
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Categories:
scampers, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Wee Hours
...It's the wee hours of the morning,
And the rain is drizzling down.
It makes the air all fresh and clean,
As I walk the streets of town.
Although July is ending,
It's damp and cold tonight,
An...
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Categories:
scampers, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Categories:
scampers, rain,
Form: Haiku
Butterflies and Friends
...butterflies and friends
ragged winds depart
snow maid leaves a farewell kiss ~
robins lay blue eggs
wisteria blooms
calls to butterflies and bees ~
roly poly bugs
silky cocoons swa...
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Categories:
scampers, butterfly, spring,
Form: Haiku
Untwine
...It lays helpless at the foot of the hill gasping for breath, while the shadows drifts slowly over the hardened earth and thickened skies. The scent of the gully birds kept meandering around strange d...
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Categories:
scampers, cinderella, community, courage, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Four Cafes
...Four Cafes
Winter mists swirl up from puddles on the cobblestones blurring the names of the four cafes facing the narrow boulevard. Townspeople and visitors walk briskly with their heads down, co...
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Categories:
scampers, january, night,
Form: Prose
Beneath Unknown Shores
...Beneath Unknown Shores
Waves envelop the steel keel of a massive cruise liner
Off rails eyes hypnotized sense serenity on indigo bay
Cloudles...
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Categories:
scampers, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Where Tranquility's Quintessence Abides
...I start my afternoon hike up a mountain trail.
October’s sunlight, the vestige of Indian Summer,
dapples my exposed skin with welcomed warmth.
Sun’s rays are gilded tendrils cutting through pi...
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Categories:
scampers, autumn,
Form: Free verse
The Earth Mourns
...The earth moans the earth and blood is soaked into dirt, the beatitude stands still and the mountain goat is grazing patiently on the hill. The birds are conducting Sunday morning mass and the leader...
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Categories:
scampers, appreciation, business, childhood, environment,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Hope
...They stand erect on the hill side listening to a jubilant ceremony saturated in the wind and the lake side spilling waves of hope over amplified sound while the residue of life scampers all over the ...
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Categories:
scampers, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
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