Staircase
...shadow
shimmies up stairs
catches my eye
and ceasing its pursuit
stops so I can snap its soul
coiled and still...
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Categories:
shimmies, light,
Form: Verse
Tinsel
...
A tremolo of quivering,
movement of light
She shimmies she shimmers
like yesterday's gold ...
Like a gentle soft wind
on the fresh fallin' snow.
Lamettas of old...
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Categories:
shimmies, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse
In The Shadow of Sunlight
...Quote: When earth’s one half faces the sun, the other half goes to restful sleep – Anonymous
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With tilted axis
And ellipt...
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Categories:
shimmies, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
Evil Christmas Elves
...
Tom Cunningham has declared war on the elves this year,
The ones who hacked Santa Claus' computer. and I fear
the naughty or nice lists were mischievously reversed.
I'm very sure I heard Mrs. Cl...
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Categories:
shimmies, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Swamp
...As I watch the rain coming down in measured bursts onto the dark waters of the vast bayou.
My mind notes the watery circles and bubbles that trace alligators asleep in the slough.
I check my line...
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Categories:
shimmies, adventure, animal, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
The Treetop Glimmers Outside My Window
...The treetop glimmers outside my window
As light, dancing upon the leaflets -
Shimmies about in affable yellow.
My gaze can't help but be captivated
By light, pure and perfectly aglow.
In...
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Categories:
shimmies, dance, light, music, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Empty
...You walk down the halls with chatter illuminating every corner you walk through
But it still feels as if you are by yourself and only yourself while your mind is filled with thoughts you would never...
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Categories:
shimmies, absence, anxiety, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Hot Chocolate Hot Chocolate
...Hot chocolate hot chocolate I like it sweet, at Yule time I'll drink it then take a back seat
beside the old tree where Santa I'll meet they'll be cookies galore for St Nick to eat
as h...
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Categories:
shimmies, appreciation, holiday,
Form: Monorhyme
Anti-Poem - Snaking It To Venice
...Anti-Poem — “Snaking It To Venice”
(Poet’s Instruction: Play “The End” by the Doors loudly, while reading this anti-poem)
it’s you and me baby inside this gliding duster
this ’74 green plymout...
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Categories:
shimmies, memory, music, youth,
Form: Free verse
Falling Leaves
...Fall is the most beautiful time of the year for me, with its blushing
Apples and fruitful trees dressed in zesty rubious healthy leaves with
Luminous fruit hanging off...
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Categories:
shimmies, analogy, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
In My Vagabond State of Mind
...IN MY VAGABOND STATE OF MIND
Everytime I caught myself buried in overwhelming
responsibilities, feeling lost, trying to stay sane,
I always sank myself in my vagabond state of mind,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
shimmies, dream, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Brand-New Day
...Draped over the land like a ghostly shroud,
a blanket of morning mist
morphs into rolling banks of fog;
soft as an eider-filled duvet.
Dawn rebukes Night's claim to darkened skies
and ar...
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Categories:
shimmies, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Imagism
Predilection of Dawn
...The glide of the plane almost in step with my rooftop.
Visibility of blue heaven low; lookout for earthwalkers.
My bland Toyota euphoric and banded by tight forest.
The span of an angelic chor...
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Categories:
shimmies, bird, nature,
Form: Verse
The End of the Line
... the sun still shimmies up every morn
meanders down at days end
the moon fills the nights in various stages
morning streets are bombarded by struts slow and fast
cars sigh their usu...
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Categories:
shimmies, desire,
Form: Free verse
She Dances In Her Blue Dress
...She Dances in Her Blue Dress
She stands beneath shimmering clear soft lights
in subtle beauteous of elegance.
A faint glimmer sparks in her eyes ignites
an idyllic aura anxious to dan...
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Categories:
shimmies, blue, dance,
Form: Sonnet
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