The arc of imagination
...There’s beauty in imagining great things;
It lights our dark future with hope-filled dreams ~
Visions of peasants ordained to be kings,
And plebeians crowned as queens, so it seems.
It charts dre...
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Categories:
squeezes, dream, future, hope, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
How long, How long!!!!!!
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Inside the four walls is my agony surpasses the night
The day is replaced with work, and time slides by
Animals seemed privileged and were cared for bright
Why not I am cared but cut half throat...
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Categories:
squeezes, beach, beautiful, bible, books,
Form: Free verse
Beauty of imaginations
...There’s beauty in imagining great things;
It lights our dark future with hope-filled dreams ~
Visions of peasants ordained to be kings,
And plebeians crowned as queens, so it seems.
It charts dre...
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Categories:
squeezes, dream, future, hope, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
A Night Cap B4 a Cat Nap
...It's been such a purrrrfect day.
it's fun to play.
I love sugarplum wishes.
to try to catch fishes.
violet visions.
hard to make decisions,
play with the dog's tail,
or eat that slow old snai...
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Categories:
squeezes, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
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Categories:
squeezes, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
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Categories:
squeezes, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
the winter blues
...the winter blues has a grip on me, all so tight
Its icy tentacles wrap around me and squeezes
freezing my fingers and toes with its nasty frostbite
staving off the cold is a battle, a...
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Categories:
squeezes, winter,
Form: Villanelle
Three Rings Entice a Perfect Fit
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Each ring alone
too big to fit,
slips on finger,
disclosing its excess.
Too tight the hold,
the urge to control.
Too much the hope
to fill the void,
the more it squeezes,
the embrace t...
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Categories:
squeezes, romance,
Form: Free verse
my eyes tried to tell you
...my eyes tried to tell you
golden and round the setting sun peeks
over sloping mountaintops
while cobalt shadows inch into the rust-brown crevices
like a silent blanket smothering the lig...
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Categories:
squeezes, blessing, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Super Satisfying Sunrise Stroll
..."It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted."
~ Mary Ellen Chase
W...
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Categories:
squeezes, morning, nature,
Form: Alliteration
The Owl
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above the mist of
kohl tombstones . . .
moon hides its face
Wind screams through the graveyard,
and leaves on the ground are scattered around old tombstones
where a modern Cherokee ma...
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Categories:
squeezes, angst,
Form: Haibun
Silence
...Has anyone ever told you the truth about isolation?
No, not the tranquil kind.
The one with a physical presence.
The one that coils around you and squeezes until you implode.
Where you’re alo...
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Categories:
squeezes, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Wounds won't heal
...I'm lying here tonight
All alone in this bed
My memories of you
Dance through my head.
They cause my tears
To fall down like rain
Why do your memories
Have to come with pain?
My favorite...
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Categories:
squeezes, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Ambergris
...lists of things I crave about city
the one in particular
smells reaching for all directions
greedy fruit smoothies in a blender
I can tell that one’s got straw...
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Categories:
squeezes, love,
Form: Free verse
My War With Myself
...I can feel the life,
That flows through my viens,
But each beat of my heart,
Just brings me pains,
There's nothing wrong,
as far as you can see,
But I can't stop the want,
To claw the li...
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Categories:
squeezes, depression, mental illness, sad,
Form: Free verse
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