ASCENSION
...ASCENSION
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moon slowly ascends
silver coin in well of sky
glow smooths rough edges
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Categories:
smooths, 12th grade, moon, spiritual,
Form: Other
Unraveling and Reweaving
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During this time of agents and robotic helpers,
we yearn for personification.
We crave them to recognize who we are,
what we desire, even to know
our favorite ice cream flavors.
We want th...
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Categories:
smooths, perspective, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
At the edge of the evening, when the world gathers in shadows
...At the edge of the evening, when the world gathers in shadows,
I begin to lose my thoughts, like a river flowing restlessly,
A man, not a societal dream, not a projection
Of conventions, but a fir...
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Categories:
smooths, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
She's Only Seventeen
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She's only seventeen
Eyes of warm blue ice…
a sky with clouds of pearl
Kindness peeks out,
empathy for the whole world
Ebony lashes, concealing,
revealing, in a graceful fan
F...
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Categories:
smooths, child, family, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Kneading Autumn's Yearning
...[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]
Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air
Her wor...
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Categories:
smooths, adventure, autumn, desire, emotions,
Form: Narrative
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLDER
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There are many signs I have grown older…that make me wonder…how
in the blink of an eye…
All the time I’ve been alive…all the years that have slipped by.
When I look into a mirror…sometimes…I f...
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Categories:
smooths, age, family,
Form: Rhyme
Ultimate Journey
...Ultimate Journey
Dr Ranjit Dutta
When the soul freed from
Life's turbulent sea
When the weary wings
No longer room
In midst of blue.
In the realms of light
When love resid...
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Categories:
smooths, 7th grade,
Form: Verse
In A World Where I Do Not Exist
...Near a distant sun
Under an uncontaminated crystalline sky
Exists a world without me
Where the viridescent grass ages unchallenged
Wears wizened beards
And bows only to the wind
Where the ...
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Categories:
smooths, children, family, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
In The Shadow of Sunlight
...Quote: When earth’s one half faces the sun, the other half goes to restful sleep – Anonymous
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With tilted axis
And ellipt...
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Categories:
smooths, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Wordsmith
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He welds and melts, pours and molds
In his "Conversations with My Soul"
He smooths the rough steel of syllables
Into a "Portrait" graced by his "Play on Words"
Unrolling "Scenes from a Coun...
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Categories:
smooths, appreciation, friendship, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Coconuts
...Your hairy brown exterior
Belies the sweet interior
A gift to humans culinary
Or cocktail quite extraordinary
Your oil it smooths, caresses
A babies bum it blesses
Your cream is heaven sl...
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Categories:
smooths, flying, food,
Form: Rhyme
Ethereal
...ethereal lovely touches like
etheric ocean waves smooths
excellent whisper of love
cool breeze of romantic fall night
come and go on right time
coalesce the two souls...
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Categories:
smooths, heaven,
Form: I do not know?
Symphony of Souls
...Written: September 1st 2023
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Blithering from the depths, every word I trace
A crimson river of my soul's embrace.
Ink s...
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Categories:
smooths, analogy, appreciation, beauty, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Bold-Lit Lamp
...Bold-lit lamp, rained on, snowed on
Undaunted; undismayed.
Even of tree's fleshy torn strips
What is splattered for leaf.
Constant standing in one place
With this one fixed purpose;
Courage, ...
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Categories:
smooths, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Moon Is At His Window
...The moon is at his window
It bathes him with its light
It smooths his features wan
With fingertips of white
Steal slowly moonbeam rising
Across the bedroom floor
Illuminate his breathing
Enc...
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Categories:
smooths, child, moon, stars,
Form: Quatrain
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