Short Ovals Poems

Photographs of
Orbs in gardens
Shiny yellow ovals
Attracted to flowers

Faeries and elves
Disguised, flitting
Among the geraniums
And zinnias.

They spread out 
In a gloriously beautiful
Rainbow, prancing on 
Tiny sun-lit unicorns

Imagination smiles
As she creates fanciful
Stories about the faeries...

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Rest in ease beside me my love
With grass pillows amongst these sprouting flowers 
Destination uncertain but they shoot for the sky
And they long for love that’s wonderfully ours

Hold my hand and pray with me
Those false lives’ they live in ovals will never define them 
Ask that truth present its beauty 
And love may blow the dandelions’ outside the atrium...

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Loving you is like loving a rock. 
Its hard to do, but once you love it, its hard not to.
Your like a rock in so many ways.
Sometimes rocks are smooth,
Sometimes they are rough.
Rocks can be shaped as different objects.
Some are squares and ovals.
Others are dinosaurs,cats,stars,sometimes even hearts.
The thing is Jeremy sometimes your love comes in different shapes and sizes.
Either way I love you just the same....

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Some students finish standardized tests quickly
Others take elaborate amounts of time
My cousin Suzette always finished first
She filled in the oval bubbles with faeries and butterflies
Made elaborate designs that required all of the ovals in a row
If a teacher thought to look at her oval answer sheet she went ballistic.
Reporting her to my aunt, her mother, another teacher.
Luckily my aunt did not put any faith in these tests....

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In July, no air cooler will dissipate the heat.
I squeeze the bag, it squishes, like paste within my hand.
The chocolate eggs were perfect, the kind one loves to eat.
April's chocolate ovals now are no longer grand.

Why were these candies put on a shelf three months ago?
A preference for jellies, perhaps may be the cause,
But a springtime gain of weight tells the reason, I know.
The candies weren't unwanted. They just were put on pause.

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