What's Stopping You
...What’s stopping you
From being the person
Who you want to be
In this crazy world
That we all live in?
What’s stopping you
From reaching the mountain top
To complete every goal
That you have...
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Categories:
textiles, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
If You Care To Know
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A few things you should know about the things I love
like the magic of watching asteroids above
the fact that I was born on Easter Day
the joy of buying a summertime bouquet
off-hours where I...
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Categories:
textiles, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: List
Serging Through Life's Stitches with Scars
...Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt,
But always, my thoughts are pick-threading.
As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me,
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
Just too m...
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Categories:
textiles, emotions, faith, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
A Treasured Single Private Moment Captured But Not Forgotten
...Leisurely sat on a busy beach
A hive of noise and activity
A collage of shifting
Shape and colour form
Just casually surveying the view
I felt the hot intense expanding rays Of the sun
Scorc...
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Categories:
textiles, blessing, happy,
Form: Free verse
Nileah
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Nile beams as proud Mother of the land,
it's benefactory, gland.
Rushes to tend, to lend her foster
fauceted facet of hand-maidening
brand of bands in bend.
Oasic endow'n.
Matriarch, lif...
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Categories:
textiles, art,
Form: Ode
Nympheas
...Nymphéas
You wanted to linger in the Montmartre
where the shops were full
of colorful Arab textiles,
I wanted to take the train to Giverny
to see the water lilies.
The shopping was a dis...
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Categories:
textiles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
All In a Day At the Louvre
...Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
majestic pyramid attracts my eye,
mystique draws me in
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
every square in...
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Categories:
textiles, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse
Scissors Man
...You're a waste of a man
The last choice for a sane person
The weirdest weirdo amidst weirdos
You just don't fit in —
Like a pole climbing strap
Trying to be forced into a blue Jeans
What an abu...
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Categories:
textiles, inspiration, inspirational, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Getting Out of the Queen City In Crisis
...At home, on Amazon, hibernating from pestilence and logic,
I searched for happiness in contrivances, wastes, and textiles.
No game, but hunting. I watched my only life sunk
into a Broyhill sofa,...
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Categories:
textiles, analogy, angst, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse
Deathbeds In the Desert -
...The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic...
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Categories:
textiles, creation, history, western,
Form: Epic
Clean Heart- -
...I heard a cleanly, fouled dredging
When I thought of the clean heart
When I thought of the clean heart
The fresh friend finishing
The groomed gut gargling
As of someone gently refinishing, refin...
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Categories:
textiles, analogy, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Unforgiven
...I remember the silhouette
From her stares and gestures
How they gracefully slithered
Through minds and seasons
The silk in her demeanor
How it sucked un-weaved roughage
And tilted edges of disp...
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Categories:
textiles, conflict,
Form: Acrostic
What Heaven Feels Like
...Frolicking minds under benevolent skies
Set into motion spectacular emotions
Painting orange hues on silken textiles
As lovers embark on a path to paradise
Horizon bends listening to ocean tidi...
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Categories:
textiles, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Art - Alphonse Mucha
...Alphonse Mucha's art was so influential it helped create Art Nouveau.
A flamboyant sensuous style, with softness, swirls, curls and beauty.
It heralded and celebrated new art as a counterpoint
to ...
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Categories:
textiles, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Love
...Love is in the air
I can smell love on flowers
I can see love in the rays that the sun shines on the earth
I find love when standing on top of the highest mountain
Love is in the air
All ar...
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Categories:
textiles, love,
Form: Free verse
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