She Trusted the Stars
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She placed her dreams in starshine's bright design
where she believed the galaxy would guard them
from incidents and accidents that might shard them.
She trusted stars to lifelong harmoniz...
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Categories:
splotchy, betrayal, cry, depression, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Tears of a clown
...In the halcyon hush of twilight meadows,
a clown carves laughter from hydrangea elixir,
his smile — a fuchsia epitaph,
hidden behind a dazzling white glow.
Sparkling countless orbs drift...
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Categories:
splotchy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Purple Dreams In Other Realms
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Written: April 24, 2025, for Contest sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dre...
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Categories:
splotchy, analogy, cute love,
Form: Free verse
The Morning After
...The lightning danced all through the night
To wrought a festival of fire
That put to torch in blackened blight,
And scorched the forest like a pyre
Now, petroglyphs of nature’s arts
In splotch...
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Categories:
splotchy, allegory, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
she had fried her face
...Lee had fried her face
She had fried her hair
Sitting in the sun
Outside her beachfront lair
She was all spotted now
Her skin was mottled and wrinkled.
Her face was splotchy like a cow
Her n...
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Categories:
splotchy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Secrets
...There is something we all have
Inside us, both good and bad
That can cause A splotchy stain
Of despair, sorrow and pain
Revenge and payback can unseal
Things that shouldn't be revealed
Trusted ...
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Categories:
splotchy, family, friendship, joy, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Grocery Poem Xii
...A gray and white cat sidles up
against the splotchy green dumpster
and meows despite himself.
The plastic lid slams hard at the end
of another long shift. It sounds desperately final
like th...
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Categories:
splotchy, fate,
Form: Free verse
Backface
...what face? his back
we face
an umbrella in space
a splotchy coat embrace
striped pants
dark yellow and orange canopy
his countenance red hat you see
atmospheric happiness
of blue powder...
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Categories:
splotchy, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jer...
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Categories:
splotchy, absence, adventure, business, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
As Knight Falls
...The campaign …
was over -
he, the last left alive on the
field of battle, and barely, at that …
his men had fought valiantly -
the odds were never theirs,
yet he was content in
their efforts, ...
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Categories:
splotchy, analogy, appreciation, history, life,
Form: Free verse
Back In the Woods
...A rainy hike following mud trails.
It’s a Cadillac ‘Fleetwood’
here in the back woods!
A car crumbling out of memory.
Layers of rust have layers of moss,
a film of bird adds a splotchy frost
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Categories:
splotchy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Carousel Mirrors
...I remember childhood carousel mirrors,
antique, ornate, intoxicating, glimmering,
glinting, gleaming, turning,
calliope piping, toy top twirling, shimmering.
I remember all those early years of...
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Categories:
splotchy, childhood, dance, happiness, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From Blank Screen To Logorrhea, I Write With Confused Adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
aforementioned conglomerated eye gripping titled,
poem already aired
though revisiting said theme
downp...
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Categories:
splotchy, adventure, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Back of the Woods
...A rainy hike
following mud trails.
It’s a Cadillac ‘Fleetwood’
here in the back woods!
A car crumbling out of memory.
Layers of rust have layers of moss,
a film of bird crap adds a splotchy f...
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Categories:
splotchy, poverty,
Form: Blank verse
A Blemished Sky
...splotchy clouds
squeeze billions of
raindrops
from a blemished
sky bruised with purplish
charcoal grey
blotches
as lightning
flashes
and thunder
accost the
th...
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Categories:
splotchy, 10th grade, imagery, imagination,
Form: Verse
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