SUBTROPICAL NIGHT
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A gently warm fan
In the subtropical night
almost refreshs sleep...
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Categories:
subtropical, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
Haiku
...subtropical night
gently oscillating fan
refreshing slumber...
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Categories:
subtropical, cool, sleep,
Form: Haiku
March in the Mild Tropics
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March in the Mild Tropics
Seeing the sun shining for the first time
Just a few days before the Ides of...
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Categories:
subtropical, birthday, march, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Song of The Venus Flytrap No 9: AABB
...Unthinkable odds descriptive recounts,
The Venus Flytrap, U.S.A, amounts.
Unique to Carolina's, north and south,
triggers sensory hairs in its hinged mouth.
Small insect or arachnid alerts trap,
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Categories:
subtropical, allusion, analogy, green, growth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Song of The Golden Shower No 2: ABBA
...Nature goes on living with the ... neglects,
sprung the lands that I would say, Namaste,
stretched from lands that were Siam to Malay,
Golden Shower Tree spreads out its respects.
Stately enduran...
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Categories:
subtropical, allusion, analogy, appreciation, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Glorifying My Birthplace and Country
...Corpus Christi in the southern region of the United States
Named by a Spanish explorer, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, and mates.
As he discovered the lush semitropical bay, an American city
on the W...
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Categories:
subtropical, america,
Form: Rhyme
Magnolia In Mongolia
...MAGNOLIA IN MONGOLIA
Floral gem in a street market
Beautiful by any yardstick
Offered by flower vendor
In crowded street of Ulan Bator
I did a circuit of the market
Searching f...
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Categories:
subtropical, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Iriomote Cats
...Iriomote Cats are listed as, critically endangered
They are only found on, the Japanese island of Iriomote
and they inhabit, subtropical forests that cover the island
and they are a subspecies of,...
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Categories:
subtropical, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Storms Tropical-
...Happy subtropical cyclone
Never forget semi tropical
Cyclones
Sub tropical tornado wild
Miles down
Down, down, down pitch
Darkness wall
Weather swamps
Squalls
Sails or gale ...
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Categories:
subtropical, analogy, storm, symbolism, weather,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of South Africa
...The Capital Pretoria found in the Gauteng Province,
holds the Voortrekker Monument located on a hilltop-
Made of pure granite it was built in nineteen forty-nine,
all the tourists a...
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Categories:
subtropical, africa, beauty, culture, ,
Form: Quatrain
Carpe Diem
...on tree limbs jutting out over rivers
sleepy gators bask, absorbing summer’s heat
in fall, the sluggish reptiles do the same
temperatures exceed 100 in the Sunshine State
till Novembe...
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Categories:
subtropical, autumn, summer,
Form: Free verse
Easter Island
...Once the island was covered by beautiful broadleaf forest
Where subtropical birds sang their choirs
But it is now gone because of exploitation
Only place it still exists is imagination
There exotic ...
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Categories:
subtropical, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Eight Months of Heat
...Two months past solstice
Subtropical climate sears
Just open the door
Step into oven
Midday sun chars skin and lawns
Sweat flows so freely
Water use rises
AC gives welcome relief
Scalding...
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Categories:
subtropical, angst, seasons,
Form: Senryu
Into My View She Came
...This day I sat pondering in San Andrés by the sea
Contemplating my tomorrows as I wonder where I'll be
It's getting close to noon as I absorb the morns suns rays
On the beach in Playa de Las Teres...
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Categories:
subtropical, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, people, placesbeautiful,
Form: Quatrain