Within Without
...Day and night
Over my years
I watch
This full owl body carved from the light
Of wood
With its slimly painted feathers and howling eyes
Held in swooping flight
At an angle
On a string
From...
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Categories:
slimly, appreciation, beauty, children, creation,
Form: Free verse
Sundrops
...Perennially, like the angels, bloom with a bright smile
Like the sun, radiant with perpetual light and life
Ever youthful, and like the goddess Dyana, fruitful
How slimly and sternly you are held ...
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Categories:
slimly, flower, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Concord Massachusetts Passingways
...Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them
I swing around enormous trees
skirt quickly...trying to catch up
were we holding hands as we walked
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Categories:
slimly, funeral, garden, history, i
Form: Free verse
Food Parade Super Mart
...The large
man underdressed for November
booms at the uniformed
kneeling guy who pushes
chocolate bars on the shelf.
The lady glides, slimly with
forward pressed jaw and
questions in her eyes. ...
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Categories:
slimly, community, life, society,
Form: Free verse
Tchotchke
...My abecedarian fingers
Numb to their recalculations and lexicons
I brush slimly my thumb through each
And clasp myself in fives or nines
It sinks its full weight like an equivocate clasp
One g...
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Categories:
slimly,
Form: Free verse
Our Love Took Flight
...OUR LOVE TOOK FLIGHT
Written by: Catherine Reinke
Poems of others
I’ve read to you
of my love lost,
heartbreak and sorrow.
But to you
neglected, rejected
outstanding and true,
this poem...
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Categories:
slimly, angst, depression, husband, loss,
Form: Couplet