Dancing To The Stones
...I love to dance to the music of The Rolling Stones,
one of the longest-running rock bands since the sixties.
The band’s music is raw with energetic blend of blues,
rhythm and blues, rock and roll...
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Categories:
shimmying, dance, music,
Form: Free verse
The Sound Of Inner Peace
...
Like the hush of mobile crystals
stilling, inside a breezeless night
Like the echoes of distant stars
shimmying towards the moon
Its like tendrils of gray smoke
wafting through ...
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Categories:
shimmying, appreciation, faith,
Form: Free verse
M N O P Q R S T U V W
...Mini mangy monster Marvin moo
Nearly never noticed anything new
Outrageously outgoing onset overdue
Plunking his plush posterior on a pew
Quizzically questioning Curly-Q
Respecting ruffians Brew...
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Categories:
shimmying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Demons and Fireflies
...Major depression crept in,
seeped through my defences like smoke,
the devil shimmying off my shoulder,
setting up a nest in my brain-
a puppeteer of despair,
fingers dancing on my strings,
turn...
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Categories:
shimmying, dark, depression, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The humble cockroach
...The humble cockroach -
Survival of one wreath speck table insect,
(poll ease pod din me Elmer Fudd speak)
thus earning hardy laurels
nsync with inxs of standing kudos
ranking as bajillion year...
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Categories:
shimmying, america, animal, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal
...In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing foothills, where vistas ga...
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Categories:
shimmying, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
...Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling te...
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Categories:
shimmying, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
Rainbow-Colored Wavelengths
...Rose sequins adorn my hidden, bewitched spirit.
Crimson stars with blooming amber wood
Robins lovely ballad whispers chords in the split.
A scene depicts rustling willow leaves as I st...
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Categories:
shimmying, analogy, appreciation, confidence, rainbow,
Form: Pantoum
Voice of Spring
...“and the birds twitter like whispering violins”
Quote by – Constance La France
Whiffs of fragrant breeze propagate tranquility
Kissing delicate roses, blushing amber beauty,
Rustling leaves of ...
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Categories:
shimmying, bird, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse
D R E a M S
...I have seen dreams
Shimmying, like
Stars, in dark of night
I have known dreams
Mirroring miracles, that
Flowed while I was awake
I have held dreams of gem
As beam on wheels of time, so
de...
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Categories:
shimmying, adventure, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Our Daily Bread Community Food Pantry
...The spouse betook monthly outing
today May 4th, 2022
to 3938B Ridge Pike,
Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426.
No more bare cupboards,
fridge, and deep freezer
since returning with more than
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Categories:
shimmying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Green-The Color of Life
...Though I'm ashamed to say it now, I never took conservation seriously,
Just living life as if nothing else mattered, full of wonted complacency.
I would hear intense talk of the climate, recyclin...
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Categories:
shimmying, fantasy, green, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Sun Shimmering O'Er Frothy Snow
...Sun shimmering o’er frothy snow
Like faeries glimmer
In far fantasy lands a-glow,
Shimmying they slither.
Crystals are glistening
Nature is listening;
Soul is awakening,
‘Tis q...
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Categories:
shimmying, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
For Jack Seredyniecki
...Stargazer, stargazer
Bearer of bouquets
Four of stardust
Four the number of times you fussed
Hoping to see cream of the crop.
Pink, yellow, white, and orange stargazer lilies smiled
Your dimp...
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Categories:
shimmying, appreciation, celebration, introspection, mothers
Form: Bio
To Live the Wind's Joy
...“The wind rides in solitude
In her diaphanous delight.
Her skirts brush eternity
To gather the stars of night.”
Forever the stars she gathers
will magically move in the sky.
Their danc...
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Categories:
shimmying, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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