Penelope's Tea Party
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Sounds a little bourgeoisie
to put on a formal sit-down tea
all dressed up with a bumblebee
As she sets up under the willow tree
it's the perfect antidote to a bout of ennui
for sweet little...
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Categories:
sublimely, blessing, celebration, fun, uplifting,
Form: Monorhyme
SO THAT WE DO NOT GET LOST
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We must never renounce
the dignity of being...
So that we do not fall
into the hasty,
cunning nonconformity of non-belief...
Let us reach the chimera of dreams,
even leaving...
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Categories:
sublimely, allusion, analogy, blessing, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
Lacustrine Opera
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In bejeweled jade landscape
the topaz terrain rolls
as wondrous waves,
undulates with
sculpted panorama
of captivating cadence,
entrenches in earthen frame
the sprawling shape
of a pl...
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Categories:
sublimely, nature,
Form: Free verse
Stardust
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The opaque grains of darkness drizzle silently
from the curved cauldron of the seamless sky,
the silver embroidered satin tapestry rolls out
from the cornucopia of the falling night,
as the ...
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Categories:
sublimely, analogy, beauty, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Harmony Tree
...My thoughts of this world lie troubled and profound
As I pause drenched in the golden hues of copper fields
Stretched to the limit of the bronzed horizons that crowned
Beaming with the aspiration ...
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Categories:
sublimely, encouraging, happiness, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
End Of August
...August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.
The odd uneven time—Sylvia Plath
End Of August
The end of August is oh so near ...
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Categories:
sublimely, anxiety, art, august, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
In the twilight of a crystalline night, under the rounded silence of moonlight
...In the twilight of a crystalline night, under the rounded silence of moonlight,
my thoughts flow like a river struggling within the banks of a poet's heart –
they become an endless stream of melanc...
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Categories:
sublimely, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Did you hear about that politician doing something illegal
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…pick one
Triden or Bump
The or wins every time
All the new politicians
wore new suits
but everyone ones starving
Tell you what it is a good strategy
Less to rule
My queen was Freddie...
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Categories:
sublimely, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Tattered Handkerchief
...The white statue rested above the dying woman's head,
A ray of light shone thinly onto the old talisman.
Carter watched silently at the old gaunt wrinkled woman.
He would be brave, prepare his las...
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Categories:
sublimely, fantasy, humorous, magic,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Raindrops
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Sunny days of amber
Start daylight summer.
Skyline clear, veils of clouds' scatter.
Sunshine silhouettes placid and plenty
Sustain vivid space for dreaming beauty.
Sparrow sisters spirit ...
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Categories:
sublimely, rain, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Soup Is
...Poetry Soup Is…
A place to post words and be heard
a platform for prose, a poet’s eatery
A sonneteer’s palace, for the sagacious or the absurd
A silver chalice that pours golden poetry
Rhymed...
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Categories:
sublimely, analogy, community, how i
Form: Rhyme
Play Of Colors
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"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge
In the enchanting emerald landscape,
the terrain undulates like the jade waves
in the panorama of...
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Categories:
sublimely, beauty, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Charismatic Concerto
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In bejeweled jade landscape
the topaz terrain rolls
on wondrous waves,
undulating with
the sculpted panorama
of pristine cadence,
entrenches in earthen frame
the sprawling shape
of a ...
...
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Categories:
sublimely, analogy, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Different or the Same
...Ever since the days when the world was still young,
The same stories were told, the same songs were sung.
Through the constant tide of birth, marriage, and death,
We each seek our place, ‘til ...
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Categories:
sublimely, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
Time To Come And Go
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Luminous lucent mind
longingly mystique,
made of multi-facetted crystal
of gorgeous gem,
shines sublimely
with translucent thoughts,
glistened by soul-suffusing
sensuous rays,
emanati...
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Categories:
sublimely, analogy, life, time,
Form: Free verse
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