Stirs up a shallow mind
...I saw streamlets gush
On hilly terrains inclined,
Rare do rivers rush,
Silent and sure do they wind,
Bestirs but a shallow mind.
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Tanka | 18.08.2025 | streamlet, river
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Categories:
streamlet, river, silence,
Form: Tanka
Rhythm of a river
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Contest: Rolling With The Rs
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date Written: 3rd August, 2025
Placement: Fourth
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Categories:
streamlet, extended metaphor, heart, metaphor,
Form: Rictameter
Dusty Roads Take Me Out
...Dusty roads take me out
To the furthest reaches -
To places not thought of
Way off highway stretches -
To the rocky vales where
A lonely thrasher calls
And scarcely people hear
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Categories:
streamlet, mountains, river, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Searchin For Peace
...Nimble fountain of the mountain
Soaring starry birds on the hilly peak
Greyishness blue heart of the sky
Meditated silent wind of the wood
Enchanted hut beside the streamlet
Golden paddy field, ...
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Categories:
streamlet, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
What Is Love?
... Is it the cinders of hope?
Is it the life which wheezes unfailingly?
Is it the enduring ,crimso...
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Categories:
streamlet, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
The Hidden Nature Trail
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The Hidden Nature Trail
While I was hiking one soft summer morn
beside a streamlet flowing through a dale,
I found a narrow nestled path unworn
which led me down a hidden nature...
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Categories:
streamlet, dream, fantasy, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Most Welcome Cool Breeze
...Gentle is the touch of breeze that makes its way
Through during the evening in these hot days.
I sit in a web chair under the big oak's gaze,
Listening to the mockingbirds sing; giving praise.
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Categories:
streamlet, peace,
Form: Monorhyme
Isidore
...Standing up on this polished stone as
A bard once upon a time
In the utopian monarchy of my lonely thought
Sharping up the plight for its prime.
As an apostate of vice
On the face of the last di...
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Categories:
streamlet, eulogy,
Form: Verse
A Streamlet
...A streamlet falls into a lake
as mist do the cherry blossoms make....
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Categories:
streamlet, image, nature,
Form: Crystalline
Mill Wheel
...The Mill wheel wouldn't turn until the Spring.
Covered in ice from the frigid Winter freeze,
no production until the ivory dove does sing.
The town wondered what nature would bring,
so no on...
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Categories:
streamlet, fear, imagination, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Beauty
...The reverie carries a renown reflection, like a flowing streamlet with torrents of the tributary holding onto its memoirs. Pebbles surface the shore like a lover encompassing the tides of...
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Categories:
streamlet, beauty, nature,
Form: Haibun
A Connection of Affection
...I must have been three or may be four,
when Karen took me to the candy store.
My awesome older sister was she,
she’s was everything I wanted to be.
Her fun and silly ways I did adore...
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Categories:
streamlet, childhood, sister,
Form: Rhyme
An Adventure In Darkness
...One night returning home from the marketplace
Street lights suddenly went out.
I could see the road curving in the headlight of my car.
After driving for some time ,I reached a place
By the ...
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Categories:
streamlet, nature,
Form: Free verse
To My Love
...MY LOVE, it was never your touch that sent my soul on fire,
the way you ignited my passion without ration to acquire.
Nor the way you gently tuck my silky hair behind my ear,
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Categories:
streamlet, love, passion, , western,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Cannot Unlove You
...the winter snow has drifted,
each flake reminds me of you-
through memories I have sifted,
and I thought I'd be uplifted,
but my yellow skies turned to blue,
for my heart cannot unlove you....
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Categories:
streamlet, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
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