Bouncy Brock
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Bouncy Brock blew bigger bubbles than his friends,
Friends whose bubbles were small, soapy bursts of suds
Brock’s bubbles were so huge they’d certainly cleanse
While his friends ...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, child, childhood, children, nursery
Form: Terza Rima
To which image should we cling
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Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Terza Rima
In the Wind
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(Terza Rima Sonnet)
Elated illusions laugh at my reason
Creations of my mind erase dark shadows
I care I search for the joy in each season
Beauties this awesome only God can c...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, autumn, god, inspiration, joy,
Form: Terza Rima
Observations From My Back Porch
...anging groundhog pests.
Edge of forestland critters deftly feed
Earlier in the first light of the dawn
Carefully, watchfully fulfilling their need.
Last comes the larger doe with new fawn
Moving stealthily onto my new-mown lawn.
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"Terza Rima Sonnet" Poetry Contest
All Poetry, November 2, 2021
written June 18, 2021
SELECTED FOR FRONT PAGE PICKS
All Poetry, November 26, 2021...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, animal, june, morning, nature,
Form: Terza Rima
Tenure, a Terza Rima Sonnet
...Are our spirits that of the great Thunderbird
sowing their seeds within the powerful storm
are we just feathers afloat like useless words
slowly they float down landing within the...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, animal, bird, death, earth,
Form: Terza Rima
Rusty Wet Leaves, a Terza Rima Sonnet
...Boots of black on an oak stump, wet by the rains
a forgotten remembrance left long ago
woodpeckers tapping on a birch by the lanes.
moss-covered granite whispers of sun and snow
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, appreciation, earth, environment, memory,
Form: Terza Rima
Mother Nature
...glory of morning sun on forest of trees,
the twitter of birds from many nests unseen,
what devilish mind, cruel hands would fell these?
clear stream lilting through, reflect moon’s silve...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, animal, betrayal, bird, evil,
Form: Terza Rima
Timberland Glade
...The valley is hushed before daybreak,
until the animals awake.
Fawns snuggle for warmth against their mothers
beneath leaves of aspen trees,
dappled in dawn's pale light.
In thicket...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, nature,
Form: Terza Rima
Hope For a Brand-New Day -Terza Rima Sonnet
... ~Hope For A Brand-New Day~
(Terza Rima Sonnet)
Hope for a very brand new day tomorrow
And dont give in to all your hurt, you'll be fine
Just believe that one day things for you w...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, hope, inspirational,
Form: Terza Rima
In the Clouds
...A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly lands
Upon Purple Wild Petunia's blossom
Sipped a drink of nectar, flew; life unplanned
Soon the sunny morn turns into eve; clouds come
Thunder and lightning off i...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, life,
Form: Terza Rima
Near Twilight
..."Sway to the rhythm of summer snow fields. . ."
(From Tim Ryerson’s Cotton Pickin’ Paradise)
We came upon a cotton field one day
near twilight when the sun was sinking low,
then stopped the car, d...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Well Worn Words
...Voices are low, and the pages unfold
Dusty worn jackets, on paper-back shores
Classics of old, or a best-seller's gold
Renaissance store, with a bent spinal core
Latitude shelves, ...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, books, places,
Form: Terza Rima
Ardour's Cloth
...of acid rain.
But rest assured that time will smooth and spread
The memories into the shrouded past
And stitch the lesions with a healing thread.
The day will come when joy will blink awake
To leach the sorrow from that phantom ache.
For Craig's "Terza Rima Sonnet" contest...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, memory,
Form: Sonnet
False Pride
...I have fallen in deep with pride tonight
My good intention used against me
I’m beguiled by ego’s pompous might
Dismissed was true grace; now I see
When clouded...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, death, pride, sorrow, violence,
Form: Terza Rima
Have a Say
...Knock wolf, I want you to lend me an ear.
I know, you are right there watching my side.
My temper you want, but it, I won’t tear.
Unlike you, I have learnt more than a slide.
All of which are not me...
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Categories:
terza rima sonnet, faith, friendship, future, light,
Form: Terza Rima
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