Plains of Nod
...Amidst thy grassy sea,
Stands a lone cottonwood tree.
A man of red–
His many feathers
Scatter like dust–
Away in the wind.
Amidst thy cottonwood tree,
Lies a man who once was free.
A ma...
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Categories:
suspends, culture, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Toll of a Single Bell Chime
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A bell tolls — with a single chime.
Igniting the spell of dawn’s regret.
It halts the breath, suspends all time,
Foreboding with threats you can't forget.
You flinch—one foot on the stepping ...
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Categories:
suspends, angst, anxiety, music,
Form: Rhyme
Contrast This And That
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Pause, consider, and think about this.
Some rich people invest and spend.
Some poor people wish and spend.
Short people reach up.
Tall people bend down.
Good habits beget good results.
Bad ...
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Categories:
suspends, family,
Form: Free verse
Interlude
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“In the fall, I believe again in poetry...”
— Jaakko A. Ahokas
When September comes through heated breezes,
sunflowers watch droll dragonflies duet
to tunes of melodic taunts...
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Categories:
suspends, autumn, environment, nature, seasons,
Form: Dizain
Where the Ocean Kneels
...Inspired by the 2024 U.S. "Cosmic Cliffs" stamp (Scott #5828), featuring a James Webb Space Telescope image of the Carina Nebula.
Dune d
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Categories:
suspends, america, beauty, color, devotion,
Form: Ekphrasis
If I Were a Baby's Breath
... If I were a baby’s breath
I’d be the sigh
that bends the wheat as dawn slips by
a gentle chinook that softly speaks
a river’s pause….. before it breaks
the soulful love...
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Categories:
suspends, devotion, dream, emotions, love,
Form: Lyric
WINGED ARCHIPELAGO
...Green waters circumscribe an island’s pallid face,
Hexagons of light, scattered jewels on the waves.
Earthly hues, against litharge seas, shimmering gleam;
Albatross wings glide, an immacu...
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Categories:
suspends, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Buddha Meets Christmas
...Down the fervent aeons Buddha’s sagesse,
casts its august shroud on benign witness,
shades, shadows, subtle symbol shift,
encompass cosmopolitan and temporal,
incongruous to flaccid predilection ...
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Categories:
suspends, august, celebration, character, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Quietude
...We dream of silence, pure and still,
A space where noise suspends its trill.
Yet in the void, a whisper still, hums,
For silence never ever truly comes.
In quietude, a heartbeat strums,
The pu...
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Categories:
suspends, silence, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Dainty Ballerina
...In silken shoes, she twirls upon the stage,
A whisper of the wind, so light, so free,
Her movements paint the air, a soft engage,
With every leap, she writes a symphony.
Dainty as petals kissed...
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Categories:
suspends, dance,
Form: Sonnet
At Peace with the World
...leaves float through the air
clouds rest in the sky
dreams glide through my mind
a dreamer of beautiful places
places that levitate the soul
as my eyes travel the night's soft starlight glow...
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Categories:
suspends, life, nature,
Form: Suzette Prime
Flowering Bond
...Our bond is like a flower.
That blooms in absence of the rain
Words pour from the night shatter
with smile and joy caressing its veins
Its dry roots grow strong and deep
It's like a song th...
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Categories:
suspends, angel, cute, feelings, friend,
Form: Rhyme
April 9The animal world Death to All Humans
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The Parliament of Animals
met one day in a secret undisclosed location
“We are assembled here
to judge the actions
of the human race.
the human race is being charged with
crimes aga...
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Categories:
suspends, analogy, anger, angst, animal,
Form: Narrative
It Is Grace
...Ephesians 2:8 (KJV) “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”
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It’s grace…
that leaves footprints in the skies,
more...
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Categories:
suspends, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
In the Hush of My Sanctuary
...In my sanctuary’s hush where Poe’s tales I clasp
Into his world I plunge with a breath, a rasp.
Beneath the creaking floorboards a heart's pulse
In my mind, my mind, oh it throbs and gasps...
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Categories:
suspends, death, fear, halloween, heart,
Form: Rhyme
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