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Sifting Sand
In his indecision he changed again Only to become more of what he had — never been (Dreamsleep: January, 2025) ...

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Categories: sifting, time,
Form: Free verse
When Autumn Leaves Came Sifting Down
late-summer sky, vast cloudless vault hued blue as eyes first meeting mine; soon autumn tinged fresh campus air as flirting-glance to fondness grew and verdant leaves donned ochre hues then blushed rust tones when we would gaze deep into eyes, hearts warm as spring in dappled shade beneath spread limbs of gold and umber, pumpkin-rind, soft pastel sketches for the eye while we held hands...

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Categories: sifting, autumn, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sifting Sands
Treasuring every moment left waking hours become minutes become seconds, sands of time sifting through our fingers and the very sinews of our beings ...

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Categories: sifting, destiny, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sifting Sad Shadows From the Past
Flour, baking powder, sugar, salt must be integrated smoothly, to a fault if what is baked will turn out good keeping it all in proportion, as one should "Sifting sad shadows from the past" to aerate lighter memories that will last helps break down the bigger lumps of those times feeling down in the dumps Having a memory a bit more like a...

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Categories: sifting, analogy, imagery, introspection, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sifting Sad Shadows From the Past
This, perhaps, has been my constant duty all through, My life has been a perpetual stock-taking; Within which, I, like sparrows, from out of the blue, Find possibilities of Nestles get shaping...! The almighty and my kith and kin have been great, What a life he has given me, it's wonderful! Who says there's existential resolve and sad fate? My response-filled life...

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Categories: sifting, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Sifting Sand Shadows
I sit here on the beach, seaside. "Sifting sad shadows from the past." Which like sand flats ebbing with tide, Expose sadness, in blackness cast. As I find ashes of loves died, Sorting it all out, takes its toll. Hands tremble, heart splits open wide, Weighing the sorrows, drags on soul. The shadows lengthen as day dies. Soon to coalesce to black night. I must...

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Categories: sifting, perspective, sad, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sifting Time
always questions always apprehensions in the process of getting through this life begins with stunning realization there is more to this universe than I flows through doubt and self-examination into a struggle to simply get by following rules truly all that there is why not search for something much more than this try to find meaning within existence beyond the needs for basic subsistence reach...

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Categories: sifting, future, life, philosophy, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love Sifting
last third of the night. sifting through torrents of love. to feed sky and stars...

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Categories: sifting, analogy, love, sky, stars,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Post-Thanksgiving Blues
Children have gone, house settling down; sitting and sifting through memories found. How quickly life passes--a grandma now I wish I could reverse the clock somehow. I didn't know how quickly they would grow into their own lives--a world I don't know. November 28, 2021 Bite Size...

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Categories: sifting, appreciation, celebration, child, future,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sifting
What noble little creatures they are tending to eggs through starvation and storm in colorful robes of the Gods. We humans tend to smash our homes with our wrecking ball souls sift through the broken shells and tiny bones of tomorrow. Then we brand it... "our destiny"....

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Categories: sifting, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Tiempo Profundo
to my son, Tito A handful of sand in the angel's palm, how often you strummed and sifted the metaphor of Long Beach (since you were four and rolled and unrolled and jotted down the specks of time as if you knew what was behind the flimsy skies that threw your quantum song asunder)....

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Categories: sifting, absence, angel, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Sifting
sifting through our youthful fingers the sands of time AP: Honorable Mention 2020 posted on April 27, 2019...

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Categories: sifting, age, time, youth,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Memory Sifting
Memory Sifting (a waste of precious time) Written: by Tom Wright 3/31/2018 Sometimes I feel forced, by age, To sift through memories of my past, Often finding today’s clock intermittently suspended. My recall, once in hues, has morphed into black and white, Existing now, from shadows, are few faces, And I only detect ambiguous whispers. A Past can be beastly and only devours my...

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Categories: sifting, age, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sifting Through
sifting through treasure chest of baubles reminiscing posted on August 16, 2018...

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Categories: sifting, adventure, beautiful, color, fashion,
Form: Senryu
Sifting Sleep
sifting sleep through her dreams echoes canyons whispering means fragrances fondling features gracious glamouring gems harping harmonious hymes indulging infamous infinities jewels justification jesters knowledgeable knee kneel legendary lonely leapers many moons multiplied offering obsacles oats pursuing passion pedals question queens qualms resisting relevant reasoning transformed trampling tufts umbilici understans umbrella victories vivacious voice xtra whip cream for the y an z please ?...

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Categories: sifting, art,
Form: Ode

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