Soupcon of Poetry
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A little bit of this
A little hint of that
A little dash of freedom to express
A drop in da ocean
A tinge of fact and fiction
A whiff of wonder and wanderings
A shade of shivering
A t...
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Categories:
soupcon, planet, poets,
Form: Light Verse
If I Were a Poet
...IF I WERE A POET
If you consider me a poet
Then I shall write the words
That will put down roots
And push up into your soul
To flower and blossom there
Where one concedes beauty
Without disp...
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Categories:
soupcon, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wrong Date
...It was not a Parisian café
though it tried to be.
Our teeth were strong
they flashed
intermittently.
The house wine was red,
the bread was good bread.
The creamy leaf was dressed,
it bloomed ...
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Categories:
soupcon, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Neighborhood
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The many positives of Covid
Well for me there have been plenty
I live alone inside my home
The year is 2020
Just a soupcon of neighbours
in the past I have known
And if perchan...
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Categories:
soupcon, friendship, inspirational, social, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
A Kind of Truth
...How terrible and perfect
the shark and the spider.
How forever unknown,
much more than we
who try to explain them are.
Weigh the salt, weigh the water,
weigh the dust. Put it in a bucket
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Categories:
soupcon, poverty,
Form: Blank verse
Dash
...Bespatter me Dash,
Run a short race.
Throw a little somethin
In the mix.
I hesitate an utterance
And drop a soupcon
In parenthesis.
I want the dasher
Who plunges
In the churn.
Signal ...
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Categories:
soupcon, adventure, crush, lust, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Piano Babe
...She is in the kitchen making cheerios pie he is in the music room clanking at the keys
a Maestro prodigy yet to potty train airing out little notes and driving her insane;
With motherly sopranic...
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Categories:
soupcon, music,
Form: Free verse
The Sea's Coy Lover
...I float in an aquamarine idyll;
a bird soaring in shallows
while hearing translucent echoes,
hovering pastel ripples
reminiscent of cobalt depths
carried on shy currents
to an alabaster beac...
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Categories:
soupcon, beach, color, imagery, sea,
Form: Ekphrasis