As Clean as a Whistle
...As Clean as a Whistle
The park is a dance of colour
as leaves pirouette and waltz
around brazen, undressed trees.
November, and the sun sits weakly
even rather streakily in the sky
while I fo...
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Categories:
swiveling, dog,
Form: Free verse
Deprived of your love
...Deprived of your love,
I become a mere wind blowing
In a whirlpooling storm
Deprived of your love
I am a fallen leaf in an orchard
Crushed under the feet of those
Who come to pluck juicy frui...
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Categories:
swiveling, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
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:
swiveling, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Darling Dachshund
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A dauntless dachshund was my darling dog.
He was charmed to chase the cavorting frog.
He always ran and romped with great agility ,
For sniffing and smelling mice, he had a special a...
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Categories:
swiveling, animal, appreciation, death, dog,
Form: Alliteration
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:
swiveling, analogy, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Enchanted Forest
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Glass illusions forestry of butterflies in flight
swiveling and turning wing, aiming for sun
hovering over lulling waters of purple hues
Breathing like flowers, frilling up the air
inside ...
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Categories:
swiveling, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
fragrance of fading roses
...My soul
is in purgatory,
settling in fading tunes
of suppressed silence,
swerving perpetually
amongst
smoky quartz silhouettes;
swiveling through
the
dimmed dungeon
to unrave...
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Categories:
swiveling, deep,
Form: Free verse
superbowl
...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel...
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Categories:
swiveling, fun, humor, night, school,
Form: Free verse
A Humming Bird in My Garden
...Sudden, as a bolt from the blue,
Came down a humming bird, tantalizing
Skimming down and darting up
As an ever revolving top
It reeled round and round
Before it alighted on a drooping ...
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Categories:
swiveling, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Free verse
Hats Off To You
...What can I say but hats off to you
The top of mine to the tip of my shoe
A tap of a cane with twist of a wrist
On a roll as you stroll to top of the list
A nod of the brim and knot of your tie
A...
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Categories:
swiveling, appreciation, dance, fun,
Form: Couplet
Laughing Angels
...You can hear the echo of their laughter ringing through the halls of bliss
voices rippled soft as feathers, swiveling down on earth like this!
Airborne landings, joyful tickles, oh how innocen...
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Categories:
swiveling, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A Candlelight Moment On the Heart
...Dance your soul into a candlelight moment where the flame is bright
waltz to the music of your heart inside the center of this golden room.
Swiveling confetti floating down upon your shimmering ...
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Categories:
swiveling, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Nine Bubbles
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Big Bubbles
They arise fast though
They wobble as they up grow
Pumped up n brimming with Life
They are heavy, they’re glistening
The way they expand as they f...
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Categories:
swiveling, allegory, children, wisdom,
Form: Concrete
Runaway Train
...It was dark...
I was on board
A running mind off the long board
A sleeping mind across the board
A winning mind over a long sword...
I saw children around me
Abducted, crying before me
Cri...
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Categories:
swiveling, abuse, children, dream, grief,
Form: Verse
Snow
...flurry of snowflakes,
waltz down in swiveling steps~
sun saw their last dance
Dec.29.2022
Ice, Snow or Frost Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Tania Kitchin
S...
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Categories:
swiveling, sun, winter,
Form: Haiku
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