First Cuppa in Morn, Steaming
...
The air slowly fills
with curly pungent wafts of steam
billowing up from a
hot freshly brewed cup of coffee.
Raising the baton to
conduct the dawn chorus
of bird songs and plans
mulled t...
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Categories:
shuttled, day, food,
Form: Free verse
Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories:
shuttled, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Walking to School
...
School was a mile and a half
walk from home,
across roadways, busy streets
and railway lines and through
parklands patrolled
by swooping magpies in spring.
We thought nothing of it
when it...
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Categories:
shuttled, childhood, nostalgia, school,
Form: Free verse
Eye See--
...shuttled darkness I
I am a light I see bright
vividly I am
~
bright shutter blinking
eyelids I captivate am
soul light I see bright
~
I am daylight in
the bleckest night eye ...
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Categories:
shuttled, allusion, caregiving, change, destiny,
Form: Haiku
Shoeless Shermans Shortsighted Tale
...Shameless shady shepherd Sherlock shushed shoeless Sherman
so surely shabby sharp-eyes Sheila shellacked sheep-headed Sherlock
Shaken shallow Sharon shadowed shapely shipwrecked Sheila
Shadow-man ...
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Categories:
shuttled, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Weekend Memory
...Late 1940s England
the square
was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful
market barkers
drew the queues
with jokes
impromptu
shoppers filed
neat& f...
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Categories:
shuttled, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Back To School
...Their satchels (twenty five) within auto-rickshaw seats dumped,
Same number (small and big; fat and lean; boys and girls) tight-clumped;
Some hanging; some stamping; some hitting and kicking each o...
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Categories:
shuttled, children, life, school,
Form: Rhyme
Market Day
...the square
was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful
market barkers
drew the queues
with jokes
impromptu
shoppers filed
neat& formal
in sainsburys g...
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Categories:
shuttled, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Feels Like a Lifetime Ago
...FEELS LIKE A LIFETIME AGO
January feels like a lifetime ago,
breathing freely in a hearty party atmosphere.
The wheels on the van go round and round.
A storm loome...
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Categories:
shuttled, family,
Form: Free verse
The Red Square
...The Red Square dared to inoculate us,
We shuttled a few space away,
It shot red blooms into the great beyond,
A hoverance there we would stay,
Observe we did this great awe that ...
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Categories:
shuttled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Precious Jewels
...A Precious Jewel was found
Just laying around
Sparkling in the sea
near the rocks, one flees
time in the wind
the blowing sand
a storm passes by
the winds were so high
shuttled cries.
A Pr...
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Categories:
shuttled, beautiful, loss, places, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Spring Flowers
...Gifts of love grace Spring cabins' still-shivering mantle
Intoxicant scents wafted into every corner -- covenantal
Luscious colors allure tempt Hope in dreamer's hearts
~ 'Till faded p...
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Categories:
shuttled, beauty, flower, hope,
Form: Rubai
Awakening
...In ancient looms of my homeland,
Fairies once shuttled across threads of rainbows
Weaving folklores of gods and goddesses.
Our tapestry needed no haberdashery of
Brabubahanas and Chitrngadas or...
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Categories:
shuttled, 6th grade, abortion, absence,
Form: ABC
The Day Before Tomorrow
...A lonely ringtone pierced through the darkness.
A too-early reminder of a task I must fulfill
Since the cock hasn't barked or found its mic.
I embraced sleep some more till the due call came.
Hur...
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Categories:
shuttled, journey, trust,
Form: Free verse
Now l Am Really Free
...No bothers
No wonders
Of restless opinions
Swaying me from the way
No cowing away
From ty thoughts
We still shuttled through
Though tossed away from our turf
Without manly smiles
Even as...
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Categories:
shuttled, adventure, culture, friendship,
Form: I do not know?
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