SWEET SCENTED UNITY
...SWEET SCENTED UNITY
Scenting their sweet love,
In their black and white ones,
Two skunks seeking birth:-...
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Categories:
scenting, allegory, animal, color, cute
Form: Haiku
Sweet Summer
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To thrushes’ serenade at blush of dawn
and with the blooming of magnolia trees,
sweet Summer wills the sun to smile upon
the meadow flowers scenting morning’s breeze.
Sometimes she’s mellow...
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Categories:
scenting, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Nature's Fireworks
...Flowers are nature's fireworks.
Especially in May.
The explosion of color
takes one's breath away.
From the finest artists' hands,
come morning, day and night,
in all their different hues
an...
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Categories:
scenting, appreciation, beautiful, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Louvre
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Beneath strands of citrine dangling in the sky
arms glitter on a Moulin Rouge display,
neon bulbs flirt with the Arc spinning high
its rich tableu, like pastel from Monet.
And stree...
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Categories:
scenting, art, places,
Form: Quatrain
HIM
...Annunciated,
Germinated, seed of God;
Blooming in heaven:
Scenting the foul air of earth
With his divine peace and love:-
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Categories:
scenting, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Tanka
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:
scenting, anxiety, character, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse
Where Time Stands Still
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In that timeless realm, O Cosmic Sister, our love at the helm, where time stands still-
our love becomes the canvas,
the enzymes, the film.
Each fleeting heartbeat -a brushstroke, ballast,
a...
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Categories:
scenting, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Jasmine
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Well-favored Winter Jasmine,
how have you managed to survive?
It's long past the briskness of Autumn days.
Yet, your exquisite beauty lingers, and you thrive,
lovely petals still intact w...
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Categories:
scenting, flower,
Form: Rhyme
HAILING MARY
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HAILING MARY
(A Haiku Quintet)
Gardening Mary...
Her fruit of love blossoming...
The Christ child is born...
Her Rose of Love, born:
Crucified stem…petals of resu...
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Categories:
scenting, allegory, christmas, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
AWAY THE FLEETING BUTTERY FLY-
...fleeting butterfly
fly away son be autumns
sway flower breath breath
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waving quietly
sweet scenting quite so temping
aromatic plants
9/23/24
Written words by...
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Categories:
scenting, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Haiku
Tumbling
...Over the flume in a barrel,
consumed by a rainbow cascade;
Oh, the adrenaline of inundation!
Sumptuous the rush of shock therapy;
Chaos is the fresh start,
that flow is the restart of your hea...
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Categories:
scenting, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Canticle For The Cosmos
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Every atom and molecule
of me was made by you
in the cauldron of your womb
and these five senses of mine
are as much yours to mirror
back your majesty.
For you I assemble the morning
wit...
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Categories:
scenting, creation, morning, spring, universe,
Form: Free verse
Minus Identity
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Shines the season brimming with grandeur, rich
In winter... frills of ice and snow bewitch
My pine trees capped with tinsels evergreen :
Comes spring-- dizzy where buds' hues turn to shee...
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Categories:
scenting, appreciation, nature,
Form: Couplet
The Lotus At Midnight
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Floating blissfully alone in a moonlit, silvery repast.
Scenting the night with her heady, fragrance of romance.
4/1...
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Categories:
scenting, beautiful, flower, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Chrysanthemum
...Sitting on me, butterflies and dragonflies give poses.
Am I not, yet, less known than my fragrant sisters, Roses?
Am I not somewhat less cared for as though nature's stepchild?
The sun and the s...
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Categories:
scenting, flower, nature,
Form: Personification
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