You carved your smile into my solitude
...You carved your smile into my solitude, the chisel of your memory digging deep into the marble of silence,
Leaving orchids to bloom in the cracks of my pain, petals of hope in the desert of sadness,...
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Categories:
stopover, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Afterlife
...THE AFTERLIFE
As I come to the end of my life,
Its toil and struggle and strife,
There waits for me a new plain
Where I will be living again.
No, I will not reincarnate;
I’ll live in eternity...
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Categories:
stopover, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Forest, Never To Return, Part 1
...March came in like a lion
And never let up, not really
The children, Markie and Stu, spent most of their day outside
Except, as usual, for a quick lunch and a quicker hug
In the country, the d...
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Categories:
stopover, scary, words,
Form: Free verse
Training Experience: Novice
...*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak.
Training Experience: Novice
All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner,
it is seventy-seven, my first leave
of a first year's work....
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Categories:
stopover, america, friendship, memory, together,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Gaffa and Swiggle Groove and Bounce
...We went to Date-on Ohio
164 miles away to
Do the gig.
Swank and Swiggle
Has successfully convented
Our manager to stopover
Linzzies Supper club
To hear the orchestra
Swede got drunk and
Wan...
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Categories:
stopover, music,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Twilight Zone
...I begin my descent on earth in the vertical
charmed to spin Chantal in the horizontal
100 times I could feel beating at the sleep his liver
then to take the tangent when she awakes just after
th...
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Categories:
stopover, angel,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Around the Universe
...Like the wind
stars love to travel
celestial
journeying
exotic vacationers
racking up mileage.
Occasionally
a brief stopover
induces
a star to
settle down in a new place
happy...
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Categories:
stopover, poems, poetry, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Path 4
...Floral fragrance
Echoes of laughter;
Psalm of morning
~~~~~~~~~
Sun strokes bright
A new day beckons;
Precious moment
~~~~~~~~~
Songbird surprise
Balcony choral;
Brief stopover
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Categories:
stopover, change,
Form: Haiku
Right Then and There
...R-ight then and there
O-ne ode is quietly created;
W-ithout delay it comes,
E-asing the faint-hearted.
N-ovember second morn, one verse is silently written;
A-llowing your eyes to see the l...
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Categories:
stopover, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Luck of the Clover
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Was searching, searching for lucky clover,
when a loud bawdy fairy flew over;
and said, she was a Colleen,
said, to stop touching her green;
KEEP GOING- cause this is no stopover !
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Categories:
stopover, fun,
Form: Limerick
Jigsaw Puzzle
...Friday evening flight,
A touch of urgency,
Changi Airport Terminal One.
Check-in smoothly,
Baggage and all,
A trip Down Under.
Three souls plus one,
Baby in tow plus three adults,
An ...
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Categories:
stopover, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Passage 9
...Evening cicadas
Cacophony climax;
Night time music
~~~~~~~~~
By this playground
Noisy frolic parades;
Little feet gather
~~~~~~~~~
Haiku moment:
Brief promontory,
Dragonfly buzz...
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Categories:
stopover, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Maze 16
...Rainy deluge
Wetness clouds;
Moody day
~~~~~~~~~
Sitting still
Thoughts subside;
Just being
~~~~~~~~~
Stray stopover
Fluffy white snow;
Harsh elements
~~~~~~~~~
Death co...
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Categories:
stopover, change,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Path 1
...December rains
Hurl aqueous tears;
Salty aftertaste
~~~~~~~~~
Monsoon season
Wet and wet again;
Abrupt mood swings
~~~~~~~~~
Seek knowing
Beyond word count;
Awareness sums
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Categories:
stopover, change,
Form: Haiku
Aha Haiku 19
...Morning buzz
Grandeur and grace;
Pleasant surprise
~~~~~~~~~
Floral bouquet
Scented extravagance;
Rose garden escapade
~~~~~~~~~
City lights twinkle
Evening charades;
Dinner for...
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Categories:
stopover, change,
Form: Haiku
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