Letter
...Every so often I let my young self-take me back to the past. A time when I had just met my husband. We would go camping and fishing on the Callahan Mountain in Oregon. Of course, he did love his hunt...
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Categories:
sonja, happy, husband, love,
Form: Haibun
The Book of Esther
...Each time I see a swimming pool,
I think of you and smile.
Your breaststroke and your butterfly
Could dazzle and beguile.
You aced your screen test with Clark Gable.
Don’t be bashful, drop a l...
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Categories:
sonja, appreciation, beauty, career, water,
Form: Bio
Watching a Faerie Baby
...Snail was not happy having to babysit.
He was irritated, but decided to not throw a fit.
Instead he recruited his best friend Mr. LadyBug McSemper
Who had common sense, taught ants, and never lo...
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Categories:
sonja, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Its All a Matter of Dark
...there is such a lark;
visions of gardens, butter flies lit up;
poisons passions of Lilly's dancing in the breeze;
impalas crossing over;
moths eating off the evergreens;
where's the soup, who at...
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Categories:
sonja, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Sonja
...And so not knowing her I miss her terribly,
Of all the fire and possibilities,
Stuttering solaces,
The lake in the summer…
I want some, can I have some?
And so not knowing the lake I miss it t...
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Categories:
sonja, timefire, fire,
Form: Free verse