Flower of the Hour
...A bloom of valor in the heat of summer
ushering me to the epitome of a deep inhale
she becomes by far my flower of the hour
velvet to the touch with red cherry ooze, she is perfect
an...
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Categories:
sidling, appreciation, flower,
Form: Terzanelle
Meeting the Pipe Smoking Buffalo
...I had never met a buffalo who smokes a pipe.
But this one did it without any kind of hype.
It looked natural hanging from the big guy’s mug.
I saw his wife merely give him a tiny bit of a shrug.
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Categories:
sidling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eternity With You
...Eternity With You
It seems like an eternity that you have been gone,
But every day; you're still on my mind, like a song
Sidling through this loving heart of mine
It never fails, every single d...
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Categories:
sidling, beautiful, deep, devotion, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Little Wings
...LITTLE WINGS
“No,” and they meant it. The dizzy seat
almost threw the 8 year old. He was swiveling
‘round and around and around, starting
to look green, ready to fly, free fall. Slip
of balanc...
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Categories:
sidling, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
She Takes No Guff
...She breathes honesty into the bedroom
Dispelling liars and troublemakers
Flinging lechers into the fires of hell
She takes no guff
Sure at first some thought she would go easy
Targeting her at...
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Categories:
sidling, abuse, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Summer Album
...Since my childhood, I love summer
It wakes up in me a dreamer.
The luring bells of the ice-cream seller,
Made me gaze for him at the street corner
Till noon, across the fields, used to wiggle
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Categories:
sidling, childhood, summer,
Form: Free verse
Us Sponges, We Are Not Our Bodies
...Does the Sea
Suffuse...
Does the Sea
Perfuse...
the sponge?
Slipping, sidling
in:
the Great Outbreath
of the far forgot shore;
so small now as to be
Unimaginable,
upwells in swells ...
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Categories:
sidling, nature, ocean, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Sad Shiloh
...Sad Shiloh trots nervously across the frozen ground,
Hesitantly, then decidedly, sidling up to a new lady.
At long last has he a loving mistress found?
Will she rescue him from this place, so pen...
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Categories:
sidling, dog, eulogy, feelings, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
New Neighbors, Part Ii
...Meanwhile, Mrs. Pappadopoulos
has circled back and plops down
on Fred's front porch, all tuckered out
So Fred cheerfully pulls up a chair
and together they sit and stare
openly ogling, gawkin...
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Categories:
sidling, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Hot Hot Hot
...The heat is rising up, up, up
and I feel like a wilting pup
The breeze seems to be hiding
and summer is happily sidling
down the lane it's just insane!
I meet the day with trepidation
e...
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Categories:
sidling, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Rapa Nui Warriors
...Rapa Nui Warriors stand bright and tall and stark
Monolithic dynasties enshrined in all our hearts
But what if I told you, til death doth do us part
Santa's elves could fill the shelves,
Yet you...
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Categories:
sidling, allusion, anxiety, political, power,
Form: Free verse
A Man Is Born, Part Iii
...“...But you are my wife, and I made a vow,
even though I was a half-drunk young lout,
you belong by my side, and I by yours,
the rest of it we’ll somehow figure out.”
She still looked pale, and...
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Categories:
sidling, change, character, growth, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Long Trail
...The Long Trail © by Trisha Sugarek
The Circle Heart brand on the wet rump rippled
as the horse shivered with exhaustion
the sun lost its battle with night and
dropped behind the far peak
Ch...
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Categories:
sidling, horse,
Form: Free verse
Spirit of the Nations
...Spirits of the Nations
They say
spirits abide upon another plane
reside the other side of a universal rift
shifting in the lightness of ethereal heirs;
I aver
the eidols spare us leave,...
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Categories:
sidling, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Falling Star
...(A Children's Poem)
I see you
little star
sidling up to the moon
to steal a kiss
from off his brow.
I see you
little star
twinkling in the sky
win...
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Categories:
sidling, fantasy, good night, light,
Form: Light Verse
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