Born to Fail
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Begotten to Fail
The strutting hustlers
rouse their slumberous day
amidst their maddened worlds
In the midst
of the wary ghetto
A dream steps out
blinking, yawning with a resolv...
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Categories:
slumberous, courage, inspiration, passion,
Form: Narrative
A Scintillating Sunrise- POTD
...Brandishing the lightning lance, the sun arrives,
The mighty, majestic monarch of the day.
Kissing the mouldy mountain rows, he comes
Banishing mist and frost from night’s blotched brow.
In...
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Categories:
slumberous, appreciation, nature, smile,
Form: Alliteration
You Had Me at Goodbye
...You had me at goodbye, not hello
A goodbye signifies the end of the day
when the sun sweeps her golden skirt
behind the mountains
with a last glance before exiting
the red sky darkening like a...
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Categories:
slumberous, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Symphony of the Sunrise
...Brandishing the lightning lance, the sun arrives,
The mighty, majestic monarch of the day.
Kissing the mouldy mountain rows, he comes,
Banishing mist and frost from night’s blotched br...
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Categories:
slumberous, appreciation, light, morning,
Form: Free verse
SLUMBEROUS INTERRUPTUS
...Trapped in a cave
A blizzard howling outside
……the bear farts
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Categories:
slumberous, nature, winter,
Form: Senryu
Indolence
...An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints...
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Categories:
slumberous, boyfriend, grandmother, happiness, morning,
Form: Free verse
Moon Flowers
...I was a questing, experienced astronaut, on the way to languid, red Mars,
The huge, white sun was my companion, and unobstructed views of stars.
I was enjoying the continuous, pleasant journey, l...
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Categories:
slumberous, beauty, fantasy, flower, moon,
Form: Couplet
Wintry Nuptial
...*Image of Winter Image by Pixabay.
wintry nuptial
forest of bridal dresses
dom perignon waterfalls
crystal cathedral
caves soothingly slumberous
doves kissing a crown
tracks ...
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Categories:
slumberous, extended metaphor, imagery, wedding,
Form: Haiku
Tripping Over Fantasy
...I am so chagrinned
Why don't I ever recall?
The morning after the night
Before
.. Always
The rising
After the fall?
My chignon comes loose
Ebony, sun streaked vista
In slumberous eyes....
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Categories:
slumberous, allusion, appreciation, blessing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Piquant Sun
...I behold the aurora from the open cerulean,
Descending down to the narthex of the east.
The first glimpse awakens the phoenix o'er the yon Caribbean,
And awakens my beloved's soul who still sleep...
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Categories:
slumberous, emotions, imagery, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Dolorous
...Lonesome gusts thrust their course
Through doleful hours of the night;
Every head eased and slumberous,
Except one that here inks its plight.
Blissfully prostrate with remiss peace
Lapses eve...
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Categories:
slumberous, absence, betrayal, change,
Form: Verse
Alone No More
...Channels within the windblown grass and contoured
shifting sand, stretch-probing as a spindle tree,
rouse echoing murmurs of the easeful sounds
of solitude, the slumberous sea, and me.
Entranced ...
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Categories:
slumberous, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Nights
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I smother my face
In the coolness of the nighttime breeze,
Gently chafing my cheeks
Singing its nocturnal lullaby,
And the soft creaking of my rocking chair
Adding to the melody
I watch
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Categories:
slumberous, 11th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
An October Rhyme
...A chill in the air denotes a season of changing,
And fall colors abound so vividly vibrant
Evoke curious stares from a worthy aspirant
While blankets of leaves fall, gently arranging.
October's...
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Categories:
slumberous, autumn,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Caesura
...In lengthening slumberous reposes lies
Dickens' sterling pen under bluish skies;
And through them gloats deathless sun,
Taunting all that under his embers burn.
No more savoring of Oliver’s t...
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Categories:
slumberous, bereavement, books, death, destiny,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
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