What the Sun Sees
...As I rise,
The moon falls
The wind settles
The lake follows
The sand shimmers
The earth softens
The stars dampen and
The buildings brighten,
A tree houses
A bird swooshes
A flower opens
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Categories:
swooshes, 11th grade, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Bolts of Balthakk
...Like many heroes of mysterious Marvel Comics,
Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is a bolt of magic mix;
Spells of supernatural kinds he works, abundantly,
Crimsons, crystals, ice, rings, chains - in...
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Categories:
swooshes, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Observing the Tide
...I am captivated by the ever-rushing tide
Small, distant tsunamis raping the beach,
Granting the tiny sand crabs a free ride
From way beyond the frothing surf’s reach
Causing the terns...
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Categories:
swooshes, beach, ocean, perspective,
Form: Quintain (English)
Rites of the Rising Sun
...A man of ancient skills and tradition,
Lived in a land of structured discipline,
A balanced life with moral conviction,
Daily vigilance maintains his routine,
Rain w...
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Categories:
swooshes, character, devotion, imagery, life,
Form: Dizain
Turning Up Her Imagination
...keep the music sorrowfully low,
so big daddy doesn’t hear.
the shadowy figures, surrender
and whisper in your ear.
the psychedelic colors flow
like the sea foam beat.
Angie, your c...
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Categories:
swooshes, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Nestling Upon the Snow
...Nestling upon the snow, puss peeks over the soft
dusty snow, as sparkling snowflake spiral and fall
upon her long fur sending her spirits aloft.
She has the most expressive face and yet so small...
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Categories:
swooshes, cat, snow,
Form: Terzanelle
Pickled Raspberry Musings
...Caged magnetic daydreams of lucid migration;
I’ve been there before. It’s forbidden:
Orchard carved calligraphy crisply cut -
Spiraled surface-scratched immortality
Dimly azure, aglow o...
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Categories:
swooshes, bird,
Form: Free verse
Sleeptalking
...There’s a quiet in watching myself sleep
Like a buzz , a drone of calm abandon
Gently passing this fluid ocean , deep
Past reeds and tall grasses that slither on
To unknown whispering or ...
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Categories:
swooshes, peace, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
My Lady With Blue Eyes
...MY LADY WITH BLUE EYES
I called her out
She turned around
She smiled at me
And swooshes’ her hair to the back
Where was I, out of the world
I reached for her hand, she became shy
She laughe...
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Categories:
swooshes, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Station In Love
...Above the firmament, crossing over the rainbow
Riding on those clouds, an endless trail of loving you
I am a freed butterfly in frenzy from a red cocoon
I’ll taste your kisses, so sweet l...
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Categories:
swooshes, love, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Victory
...Eyes open as you inhale the morning air, The body still heavy from slumber loosens with each stretch and yawn, Standing slowly you walk to the window, Peeking through the inviting sun beams onto you ...
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Categories:
swooshes, appreciation, deep, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Images Reflected
...You can't trust them
Tangle in the spider webs mind
You see reflection of your outer soul
It shows the wages of time
In every line on once so smooth a surface
You smile
Creams, powders, stretch...
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Categories:
swooshes, age, life, mirror, vanity,
Form: Free verse
The Beat, Without Repeat
...The-beat-the, the-beat-the, the-beat
Drawn into my innards so sweet.
A lifetime of heartbeats come smoldering back-
The child, the teen, the young adult
Pound, out of sync.
But together they sound s...
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Categories:
swooshes, memory, music, , sweet
Form: Free verse
Within a Storm
...A small tree, quite old, sits near the harbor
Where the water swooshes into the rocks
A real dark blue, near black, color exists
A murky flow hits hard there by the docks
The wind picks u...
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Categories:
swooshes, life, nature, storm,
Form: Quatrain
Sly Fox: the Destroyer
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smashing! there she goes swaying her strut in red stilettos
with a lady gaga ’do, vamp gear and rockin’ diva blues…
"hottie P.D." that’s what she’s called.. ready...
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Categories:
swooshes, slamtime,
Form: Verse
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