Thawed
...My heart was encased in ice.
You left my warm body cold.
It took tender, loving care, from
another, to make my temperature rise.
My heart is beginning to thaw.
My memory of you will drown....
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Categories:
tender loving care, life,
Form: Free verse
INSPIRATIONAL FLOWERS
...WOMEN ARE LIKE FLOWERS THAT DECORATE MEN'S LIVES AND BRING US HAPPINESS.
THEY COME IN BEAUTIFUL SHAPES AND SIZES, INTOXICATING SMELLS AND A VARIETY OF COLORS.
LIKE EVERY FLOWER, WOMEN NEED TO B...
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Categories:
tender loving care, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz ...
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Categories:
tender loving care, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Free verse
My Soul My Dream My Story
...My Soul awakened to an autumn song serene pleasant vital and calm! My flesh went to sleep kissing the autumn breeze that blew in the window while the autumn waterfall did spring forth the smell of a...
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Categories:
tender loving care, appreciation, beauty, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
Fire Garden
...Seeing the garden rage with fire
Oh! the might of her might scream
Only the water from the rod of life can lower that pyre
How a person would be able to smile as her rage becomes a pleasant beam
...
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Categories:
tender loving care, allegory, allusion, care, health,
Form: Sonnet
Without Handlebars
...Come out, come out, taste the bouquet!
Flowers smell better tossed with stars;
Tonight the fairies will come out to play;
Riding the sky without handlebars
the Fey’s toadstools delicately ring...
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Categories:
tender loving care, dream, emotions, flower, stars,
Form: Terza Rima
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024
...Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off fo...
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Categories:
tender loving care, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Mother’s Day
...I’m not sure what to get you this year, Mum.
It’s so unprecedented.
I’d usually opt for chocolates or wine,
Or a candle maybe, that’s scented.
Do you remember that time, years ago,
When I made...
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Categories:
tender loving care, death, missing you, mother
Form: Rhyme
Our Garden
...Our Garden
In my mind’s eye,
I see you still,
Standing still in our garden,
Motionless,
Deep in thought.
So what were you thinking?
The seeds we planted together,
Grew strong,
We te...
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Categories:
tender loving care, garden, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
...Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day
Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money went separate ...
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Categories:
tender loving care, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
The hidden treasure
...As the hail blows down snow mountain
falling white flakes a carpet unrolls
Warm tenderness
touching the heart
inside gentleness flutters
Within ice winds cutting deeply one smiles
Faith s...
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Categories:
tender loving care, angel, beautiful, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Day By Day
...Day by day, by frame
Your tender, loving, care poise
Haunt me, day by day....
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Categories:
tender loving care, meaningful, nostalgia, romantic,
Form: Haiku
Home
...“Poetry is one way to escape, without leaving home.”
-Poet
Home is made with tender loving care,
A broad beaming smile and a tea...
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Categories:
tender loving care, home,
Form: Rhyme
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and Men
...The moral mortgage of mice and men
Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned a...
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Categories:
tender loving care, adventure, animal, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...
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Categories:
tender loving care, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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