My Perennial Garden
...My perennial garden is peaceful and tranquil
A timeless place of beauty where calmness will instill
Vibrant blooms emanate sweet and savory scents
No fake or synthetic wafts among the floral pres...
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Categories:
spindles, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Shared Torch Lake
...I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind
Don’t need a full seat to see before me
The drop off on Torch Lake
I...
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Categories:
spindles, earth, father, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Writer from Within
...The less
I move my lips at my 4:00 am Saturday morning sessions
The more
These words are trees standing still beside a racing river
A long way away
Freight train bores the night
Moon without ...
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Categories:
spindles, journey, silence, solitude, sound,
Form: Free verse
Ode To a Fallen Leaf
...Image by: Kimberlee Baxter
The nonpareil of a a violin plays late into a golden era
its "An Autumnal Farewell, by Debussy"
With magnificent beauty in dazzling colors of dying
she spindl...
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Categories:
spindles, appreciation, art, music,
Form: Free verse
Psithurism
...There was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires and spindles lash...
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Categories:
spindles, extended metaphor, fate, fire,
Form: Elegy
I Word Iceflower
...To the ice, you will not succumb.
Formations of ice crystals
Short furry spindles.
For you to form
It can no longer be warm,
For You to emerge
The surface must be still without a surge.
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Categories:
spindles, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Turbulent
...Blank horizons, desolate space
Oblivion in this place
Grey fibers, blank wonder
Losing its luster
Exhausted dreams, taunted hopelessness
Emptiness in this openness
Ruptured dreams, fractured s...
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Categories:
spindles, anxiety, courage, emotions, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Rusty Gate
...That old rusty gate, goes way back in time
It's body of metal holds memories
Through the hinges and spindles- Ivy climb
Almost hidden from the thick leafy trees
The gate still swings in the...
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Categories:
spindles, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
...1.
This hunger artist cannot read
volumes of printed material fast enough
to satiate an immense appetite
and unquenchable thirst
to acquire learning from
the millenniums gushing fount of
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Categories:
spindles, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Scary Inheritance
...We were excited by our recent inheritance and decided to move
We packed up and drove to our new home, some family disapproved
We were thrilled, the old Victorian home was everything we wanted
Igno...
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Categories:
spindles, dark, house, scary,
Form: Rhyme
I Could Write About the Smile Shared With Dog
...Know that this purr-ing cat
will probably eat my face
how many wings are stored
how many insect spindles
how many bugged ladies
too little buttered flies
not a bad word for the cloud
drizzle d...
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Categories:
spindles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Archaic Like Spindles
...old bookshelves dwindle
one page holds all ~ big swindle
new hardback kindle
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Bookshop Poetry Contest
10/3/2021
Syllable counter ...
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Categories:
spindles, allusion, analogy, books,
Form: Senryu
The Thingamajig
...D ug it out from under the stairs,
I knew it would be useful someday.
S aving it I was for future repairs,
C huffed I never threw it away.
A ll in good order as good as new,
R atchets and spind...
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Categories:
spindles, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Weavers
...weaver’s
spindle fulls the cloth
teasel
Note: Scottish thistles were once used by weavers as spindles....
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Categories:
spindles, appreciation, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Haiku
If It Takes Forever
...drove wife to doctor
counting wheelchair ramp spindles
~waiting for Godot
7/10/2020
My wife smiled at this one. Or was it a smirk?
Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel...
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Categories:
spindles, humor, husband, irony, satire,
Form: Senryu
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