Fool's Gold Fortune, Part I
...Lester sat in Lisa’s café that morn,
his eyes mindlessly staring out the door,
it was July of 1889,
and new work young Lester now had to find.
He’d left Jud’s ranch when he refused to pay,
did...
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Categories:
silvering, character, crazy, fun, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Paradise
...I look down from clouds, in a plane I sit,
And I stare at cotton, which is softly lit.
A warm glow oozes through, on the comforting hills,
With reds and yellows, my eyes it fills.
The clouds be...
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Categories:
silvering, blessing, color, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
There Is I Am
...There is I am
where the white dawn with the flying pigeons is
where the golden noon with glittering afternoon is
where the silvering dusk with rhythmic twittering is
where the silent contemplatin...
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Categories:
silvering, tribute,
Form: Free verse
G a R D E N S
...Up there, a wonderful garden
moon flowers, silvering
the sky,,,
Further away, igneous
powerful garden of the sun ...
Fire flowers crackle
without burni...
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Categories:
silvering, allegory, art, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Under the Dreadlocked Trees
...His hair is alive,
serpents writhing, a man Medusa of the tropics,
as if he wore the demons
of colonialism and injustice on his head,
unforgetting,
a dung-brown-and-black hologram of
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Categories:
silvering, culture, history, memory, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Highlights
...the
blooms
silvering
shimmering
in
patches
of sunlight
daubs
of colour
midst
the frigid
frost
of
fall:
cursory
change
shapes
all
our
lives...
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Categories:
silvering, autumn,
Form: Verse
Silver Strands
...Mirror mirror on the wall
I went to the beauty salon today
Silver strands ~ gone
Long dark wavy hair ~ beautiful
Bet you're jealous ~ ha
Twirling away and singing "because I'm happy" by Pharr...
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Categories:
silvering, emotions, hair, humor, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Imagination Takes Hold
...EVERY DAY
the ticking of the clock
a future promise...
EVERY DAY
the daydream,
a deep glimpse
silvering fragments
through a lattice
imagination takes hold
its wings await...
EVERY DAY ...
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Categories:
silvering, imagination, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Verse
Virtual Life Metrics
...I spend time with a friend
well, a pseudo-friend
an acquaintance of sorts
no, I guess he'd be a friend,
****, who knows
one of those types you never really share your heart
that authentic...
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Categories:
silvering, friend, world,
Form: Free verse
Jack Frost
...Jack Frost tonight goes on the prowl,
As winters gloom now frosted scowl.
Cold snaps those fingers, when Jack brings,
Kisses on cheeks with frost-bitten stings.
Frozen bones and an ic...
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Categories:
silvering, winter,
Form: Acrostic
Natural Curiosity
...Natural Curiosity
Do you wonder about the me on my inside
As you gaze at the me on my outside,
A counterpoint to those around us?
What expectations do you hold, in keeping with my
Wrinkled b...
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Categories:
silvering, confusion, deep, how i
Form: Verse
Seasonal
...When earths abundant harvest, nature displays.
Then farmers will face, ever shortening days.
As wet days of summer, change to shivering chills.
Swirling light snow, veils those far distan...
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Categories:
silvering, autumn, summer,
Form: Couplet
You
...You
You are my moon by night: silvering my dreaming sleep,
Limelighting my fond imaginings and phantom hopes.
You are my sun by day: gilding my wakened thoughts,
Burnishing my desires and heart...
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Categories:
silvering, friendship,
Form: Blank verse
Inside the Crystal Night
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A lighthouse blinked deep in the shadows' gray
a fog-horn bordered at the distanced lines,
few stars were scattering above the bay
and scintillating mirrored in my eyes;
- my eyes were...
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Categories:
silvering, analogy, love, , western,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Black Lace and Bluebells
...BLACK LACE AND BLUEBELLS
The lilt of floral summer
found me waiting
against a woodland tree,
in the early evening sun,
accompanied by birdsong,
recalling you.
Idling on grass
sprin...
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Categories:
silvering, allegory, desire, i love
Form: Free verse
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