Sultry Summer
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Sultry ~ the days of sizzling summer heat
when wildflowers bloom in meadows and fields.
The warm embrace of sunlight never yields
and on the horizon— sea and sky meet.
I traipse across a...
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Categories:
spanned, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
...Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
The species and genus
known as *****sapiens
predominated across the webbed wide world
for tens of thousands of years
until many brain children teamed toge...
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Categories:
spanned, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Dionysus Markets Asphodel
...Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.
So many burden...
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Categories:
spanned, dark, myth, mythology, snow,
Form: Rhyme
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.
An enchantress and a ...
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Categories:
spanned, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Dreamer and the Dreamed
...Line of Inquiry...
as an entity in the dream we conjured
we know not we are both the dreamer and dreamed
how then may we wake up when we are in trance
in bondage to illusions we ourselves stre...
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Categories:
spanned, dream,
Form: Free verse
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She
...Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nab...
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Categories:
spanned, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Idly Fret
...I'm sitting with device in hand,
Trapped in forked thought,
Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned,
All plot but ought for naught.
Zephyr-jostled oriel,
Jalousie jingle jets,
Venetian pi...
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Categories:
spanned, addiction, body, dark, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Some Final Thoughts for 2024
...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m...
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Categories:
spanned, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose
The Old Aqueduct
...It juts out by the river road,
traffic passes it each morn,
what’s left of the old aqueduct,
something stately, yet still forlorn.
The rock, with no mortar, was set
so fine it would make Incas p...
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Categories:
spanned, appreciation, history, imagery, in
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 165--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANYA: Damian Chases a milestone-- part II
...Date: August 10 2051
At the time Dolly Molly and Holly arrived at the restaurant most of the Hakims were there enjoying jazz melodies some relatives were on the second level l. Mama Lucinda was...
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Categories:
spanned, august, best friend, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Hero's Heart
...In a castle, cold and grand,
Where shadows danced and secrets spanned,
A hero bold, with heart ablaze,
Sought a potion, in shadowed maze.
His wand, a whisper of ancient might,
Gleamed in t...
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Categories:
spanned, hero, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of Autumn
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Whispers of Autumn
Whispers of wet winds on mellowing leaves
Herald coming of the autumn seaso...
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Categories:
spanned, analogy, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Old Photographs
...In the quiet attic's embrace, where dust motes dance,
A brittle paper whispers, in the dim and silent trance.
Yellowed with the passage of a thousand days and nights,
It cradles laughter, and capt...
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Categories:
spanned, old,
Form: Rhyme
Missing the romance
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Missing the romance
In twilight’s glow, where shadows dance,
I find myself in a wistful trance;
I miss the spark, the whispered word,
the tender moments, softly heard.
The days of pas...
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Categories:
spanned, emotions, true love,
Form: Rhyme
ENTANGLED
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Deep in meditation, I waited.
Breathing slow, soft and deep; I waited.
Then exploded on the inner screen
Such an image of the Divine Matrix
It took my breath away.
There sat I, alone, y...
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Categories:
spanned, imagination, perspective, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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