Delusional confusion with a side of freedom
...Settling into a meadow brought about mellow flows of green and yellow assembled by memories they float freely on the breeze glimmering clearly off the trees lay reflections of memories like frailed B...
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Categories:
tasseled, dream,
Form: Free verse
S T U V W
...Sumptuous sensual satin surroundings
Treasured plush, palatial, plushy pillows
Upholstered sofas, tasseled tapestries
Valued prized spoils of war
Wealthy coffers of the lucky highborn
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Categories:
tasseled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Double Double Words , Twilight Gleaming
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T Tassels of stardust flicker across
clouds ' awninG
W Where beams radiant flaunt their
heavenly appeaL
I Igniting nightfall to weave more hues ,
ornatE :
L Livening twilight...
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Categories:
tasseled, beauty, eve, light,
Form: Acrostic
To a Turkey
...Noble, regal tasseled turkey
prominent, pendulous wattle,
garb of iridescent feathers,
and bright red dangly snood.
Your stately gait pleases my eye
and your beloved, peculiar gobble
se...
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Categories:
tasseled, bird, food, humor, thanksgiving,
Form: Ode
We All Wanted To Be a Baton Twirler
...Twirling their flashing batons in a fabulous fashion
Two high steppers with tasseled boots led the parade
All of us third grade girls wanted white boots now
And a full short skirt with matching pa...
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Categories:
tasseled, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Never-Say-Dye Spirit
...My jet-black tresses and the glossy, glass skin-
Ah! Are they the things of the yore!
The silvery strands instead are now a new lure.
Like a model, I wear a crown of gracious gray
For I know, thi...
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Categories:
tasseled, appreciation, beauty, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Earthly To Heavenly Mansion
...EARTHLY TO HEAVENLY MANSION
When I think of a Mansion I think,
of one with “Vintage appeal,”
Stone architecture, welcoming pillars,
A monumental royalty feel.
Great palms and great magnol...
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Categories:
tasseled, home, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Mortality Forces Me To Confront the Inevitable
...Mortality forces me to confront the inevitable...
Though feeling one among the basket
of deplorables, yours truly, albeit groggy
from unsettling frightful dreams also rather
shy to summon coura...
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Categories:
tasseled, 12th grade, absence, children,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Shucking Evil In Favor of Good
...Shucking Evil In Favor Of Good...
(courtesy of tasseled colonel corny maise aye aire)
Challenge more difficult than threading
camel thru eye of needle, hence catchy title
scotched, and I aim to...
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Categories:
tasseled, angel, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Bal Masque
...The dawn of anticipated darkness,
Pierces these gilded walls.
The smoulder of sinister heat arising-
An entombment of dreams.
Let us raise our chalices of stars
To toast these woodland creatur...
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Categories:
tasseled, appreciation, beautiful, dance, dream,
Form: Free verse
Parking Lot Meditation
...PARKING LOT MEDITATION
Leaning back on my car hood
the old blue skies have my eyes
squinting ion clues of a melody
wanting to be born of scars in me
innerspheres humming to a song
an ...
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Categories:
tasseled, america, celebration, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Tasseled Dreams
...Tasseled Dreams
The thought of the future we will never have was pollinating foul fuzzy particles in the air,
slowly following the wake of all those tasseled dreams I held onto to for far too ...
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Categories:
tasseled, desire, future, inspirational love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Despite the Bilboes of Casteism
...He could see her highly strung face
Behind the cloaked veil
A face taught to behold beautiful turbulent.
He could feel the shiver in her timid heart
And the fearful spasm
Running down her spine....
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Categories:
tasseled, love, marriage, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Love's Course
...In the meadow
I am alive
hair tasseled
From my lover
The summer rain
begins to fall
Washing away secret kisses
Planted heavily on my rose lips
My tortured soul
Awaits our next adventure
Ti...
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Categories:
tasseled, emotions, lust,
Form: Free verse
Artemisia, Part 2 of 12
...(It was 1860 when the English poet Robert Browning
stumbled upon an interesting artefact as he walked
through the city of Florence. It was a file of documents
from an old Italian criminal trial, ...
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Categories:
tasseled,
Form: Blank verse
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