Private Celebration
...Whirlwind
Of summer embers
Stirs up
From the un-mowed grass
Swept by the brooms of July 4th fireworks
Booming distant in the furled city
Up high
To the tree tops
The fire flies rise
To...
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Categories:
sparkler, age, firework, freedom, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Still, I Burn
...Once,
the world was stitched in crayons;
lemon yellows, ocean blues,
skies that never ended
and trees that could talk
if you listened hard enough.
I used to run
with arms outstretched,
beli...
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Categories:
sparkler, change, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Smile
...Smile
The world, is full of dubious things, dishonor
Painful interactions, self-interested desires
Why good? Everything perish, sparkler life
It always ends the lives, and life, says bye
P...
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Categories:
sparkler, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
Standing Still
...It's not a stillness, really,
but the noise fading into something else.
I am the forgotten beat in the rush,
the space between clashing symbols,
drowned out but unbroken.
They circle around ...
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Categories:
sparkler, anxiety, depression, emotions, journey,
Form: Free verse
How The Echo Filters Reality
...It starts with a hum,
a thread unspooling through silence -
soft, sure, and annoyingly insistent,
like the world is whispering
secrets it’s dared me to misunderstand.
The first echo hits,
ric...
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Categories:
sparkler, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Ti 22
...TI 22
sparkler sparkler as a star
sparkling slow burn from afar
copper colourants
white orange all aglow
in my paint abstract tableau...
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Categories:
sparkler, art, science,
Form: Rhyme
Sparkler
...It's not like a rush of waves
Like I've read in those books
The innocent idyllic lies
Of fountain wishes and
Written dreams and
Patriarchal fantasies
All in illustration
Illusions? Delusions...
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Categories:
sparkler, poems, poetry, poets, princess,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Starlight and Stardust and Being
...When you awaken in the morning
Remember that you're lucky to be alive
You have more time in your Hourglass
For your loved ones and your Life
Whatever the weather outside
Whether rainbows,...
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Categories:
sparkler, angel, encouraging, inspirational, light,
Form: Rhyme
Keeper of the House
...
keeper of the house,
the toilet sparkler,
the bowl pristine
inside and out ready
to be esteemed.
the sink’s polished white,
the grime and dust, binned.
the shower, scoured,
rinsed, repeat...
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Categories:
sparkler, work,
Form: Free verse
Coconuts - Cupid's Tool
... A love story in iambic tetrameter.
Don't be afraid, please have some guts,
write a poem 'bout coconuts.
Though they are big, round, and hairy
they're not so bad, not so scary.
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Categories:
sparkler, love,
Form: Couplet
Star-Crossed Lovers
...Written: September 1st, 2023
Star-Crossed Lovers Poetry Contest -- Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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Categories:
sparkler, analogy, appreciation, love, star,
Form: Rhyme
The Expected
...
"The Expected"
The writing was on the wall
the eraser like a sparkler
annihilated every naysayer
words not required
for such a blind date
He da main player
records...
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Categories:
sparkler, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
July 4th Private Celebration
...Our backyard
Whirlwind of summer firefly
Embers
Stirs up
From the long graves of grass
By the sprawling brooms of July 4th fireworks
Booming distant in the furled sky
Up high
The fire fli...
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Categories:
sparkler, celebration, firework, july, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Devotion Poem Our Dance
...Devotion Poem - Our Dance (For Jim)
You are the first and last poems
God wrote for me.
You are the sparkler
I found flaming sun yellow between
The sprigs of early g...
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Categories:
sparkler, dance, destiny, feelings, husband,
Form: Free verse
If I Had My Drothers
...The brave man or woman, like sunshine, speaks his/her truth.
The get-a-alongs, say nothing new, afraid to rock the boat.
It takes all kinds to make the world work.
I’d like much more courage, th...
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Categories:
sparkler, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
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