Frozen side of the sun
...The sun having a frozen side~
a wish like a snowball in hell,
or netting the wind while oceans b o i l
in f i r e.
The rage of its heat needs curtailing.
I'm melting...
like chocolate...
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Categories:
sunshade, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Streets of Solitude
..."Streets of Solitude, losing your way behind fogged glass of bliss, a journey to reality." Quote by poet
Away from mental incessant chatter,
A walk in solace away from the world,
Off time, a sen...
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Categories:
sunshade, absence, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Senses
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Sunlight and shadows
White clouds drifting by
An old apple tree
Birds of a feather
Scavenging windfalls.
Barefeet on grass
Cool leather seat
Glass table top
Sun...
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Categories:
sunshade, bird, how i feel,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Air
...Title 3/ Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Live in the sunshine:
As the air strolls neath the elaborate branches
Weaving between dreams of th...
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Categories:
sunshade, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Spring
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Awaken to citrine sky as
Birds are heaven bound
Canvas rich true complementary colors spun.
Delight sensation of sweet scent does tease,
Enchanting pink sunshade trees intertwine
Fervo...
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Categories:
sunshade, spring,
Form: ABC
And Heaven Is Here
...A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness—
Oh, wilderness were paradise enow.
(Omar Khayyam’s (1048-1131 CE) well-known ...
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Categories:
sunshade, heaven, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Umbrellas
...I could find in all of my short childhood,
No umbrellas around our neighborhood;
Farm-workers used palm leave woven structures,
That resembled head-gears said in scriptures...!
Our school lay l...
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Categories:
sunshade, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun In the Square
...one waiter
ten tables
a sunshade and chair
a small cup
strong coffee
the sun in the square.
the fountain
a church door
the white heat and glare
graffitti
neat flowers
the sun in the ...
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Categories:
sunshade, imagery, sun,
Form: Imagism
The Weather Don'T Ask Me
...THE WEATHER? DON’T ASK ME
There won’t be a cloud in the sky today,
But don’t get too complacent.
The weather’s coming from the north
And storm clouds are adjacent.
My job us...
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Categories:
sunshade, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Amid Cherry Blossoms
...She strolls neath the sherry sunshade trees.
Serene, the start of sown spring, slumber sate scene.
Steadfast, striking, whimsical, white
swans swim, mid melding of cherry blossoms.
She's spellbo...
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Categories:
sunshade, solitude, spring,
Form: Verse
Hypocrisy
...The adulterous housewife
point fingers
at the prostitute down the street
How sluggish is the tortoise
said the snail
yet slow in her own little shell
The toad has no stool to offer
who p...
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Categories:
sunshade, judgement,
Form: Free verse
The Kalahari
...The Kalahari
Kneaded clay
Form creases
The thirst of desert
blinding dust and wind
Collide of wave and tide
Females carry the tribe
Their large flappy ears
Fan them cool
Muddy...
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Categories:
sunshade, africa, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Walk In Solitude
...A walk-in solitude, putting one foot
over the other, stepping over roots
to listen to the flutes of nature lutes
and silent subtle shift that are afoot.
Away from mental incessant chatter,
sol...
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Categories:
sunshade, nature, peace, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
On Death
...Departures!
We are all departing,
Beings of departure belonging to no one
And we lack all the knowledge of it
From the first day we came,
Our aim has been to move on,
To reach our goals.
Enou...
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Categories:
sunshade, analogy, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Dreams Hued In Cherry Blossoms
...She walks underneath the pink sunshade trees
dressed in flowing antique white bridal gown.
Un-dissuaded heart, to laugh, love, a peace
drawn to fragments of leaves rustling around.
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Categories:
sunshade, dream, love, spring,
Form: Sonnet
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