Where is My Hannah Arendt?
...A make-up artist? Um … no thanks.
That’s not my kind of courtship caper.
I want the girl who wrote a paper
on Massachusetts’ failing banks.
You can keep your belly-dancer.
The nimbleness that...
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Categories:
stamen, love,
Form: Rhyme
leader of the garden band
...with a yellow trumpet nose and orange stamen
the lovely daffodil lead Michigan’s floral parade
always the first flower to push through to March
natural leader of the garden band...
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Categories:
stamen, garden,
Form: Free verse
One Thousand Flowers
...Let one thousand flowers bloom
But choose one to your liking
What a beautiful watercolor loom
Where we can intertwine our lightning
The sepals must unfurl subtly
(then supplely) handle the pisti...
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Categories:
stamen, analogy, flower, metaphor, sensual,
Form: Quatrain
STEEL AND SILK
...My love like steel and silk
cuts through you
splutters your blood
watermelon juice down a throat
Wipes it with yellow silken ribbon
for you to s...
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Categories:
stamen, 12th grade, emotions, extended
Form: Free verse
Mountain Speaks
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A Matt Calliri Contest: Are You A Mouse or A Mountain
18 June 24
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Comes the morning fog
sprawling on my territory where northern glens dry from rotten stubble and mess of debris... ...
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Categories:
stamen, feelings, mountains,
Form: Narrative
SUNFLOWER
...Sunflower
I am a sunflower, tall and proud, standing tall in your garden,
My petals are bright yellow, like the sun shining above,
My stem is strong and sturdy, with leaves that dance in the bre...
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Categories:
stamen, animal, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Personification
Garden Queen
...Garden queen wore her florals like a dress
They swirled around in the morning sun
Shaking off their slivers of warm dew
The produce watched in amazement
Wishing they had petals and stamen...
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Categories:
stamen, garden,
Form: Blank verse
PassionFlower
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Tickle stamen dances with the dew.
Released, scent in the air,
fragranced sweetly K-new.
Bubble your brew of pheromone v-aperture
My attention from your look of capture ...
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Categories:
stamen, art,
Form: Ballad
Cyber Life
...CYBER LIFE
My stamen a purple flare of Light
lit from Galactic Sun
igniting me for an hour or a day
a week or month, who knows ?
Portholes open ever so slightly
Time truly an illusio...
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Categories:
stamen, courage, deep, environment, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Immaculate
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"Immaculate"
I’d like to write something
beautiful for once,
divinely dripping with honey
and milk that washes white
like stamen juice over the uncut,
the bees all com...
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Categories:
stamen, muse,
Form: Narrative
Arrow In My Quiver
...Now that you walk the earth,
we await your story dear child
Were you sometimes seated in there
in a floating dream curving a path
like our favorite flower, baby's breath,
glistening in morn...
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Categories:
stamen, 12th grade, angel, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Musk Hibiscus
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Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly
Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully ...
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Categories:
stamen, change, color, environment, gender,
Form: Rhyme
My Head Is a Bowl
...I have a bowl for a head
I have a bowl for a head
Hollowed out for flowers
You'd think I'd be dead
I hold my soul in a lotus
My soul is in a lotus
My soul is a redhead
As you already notice...
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Categories:
stamen, crazy, flower, humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Bipartisan Images
...There remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,
Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,
About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering ...
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Categories:
stamen, games, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse
Plants Having Fun
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stamen spurt pollen like sparks from live embers
florgasmic release from hot, swollen members
flowering sexpots that make noses run
viewed in this manner, just plants having fun
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Categories:
stamen, spring,
Form: Couplet
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