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Thistledown Poems - Poems about Thistledown

Katherine Hepburn
... You built your house upon the mist, The sea-sigh cradled every beam, And winds like lost and wistful souls Would lean against your fevered dream. You wore the sky against your hair, The stub......

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Categories: thistledown, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whisper
...The balmy breeze wafted over the prairie, Where yellow cowslips huddled in patches. And here and there I heard a whisper echoing: Love her, love her, love her. But she seemed deaf and pref......

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Categories: thistledown, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Butterfly Dreams-Nursery Rhyme
...There was an old woman, who lived in town, She had seven cats, all of whom wore frowns, When crimson butterflies left, each sundown, Off to their sweet dreams, in the thistledown. Much more fun......

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Categories: thistledown, butterfly, cat, color, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As I Lose Myself
...With fanciful thoughts swarming like locusts, When my mind runs bizarre, I look for a quiet spot To sit and jot them down, not bothering if they ring or rhyme At times, like gurgling......

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Categories: thistledown, happiness, poetry, poets, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goldfinch
...Plumed gems flit and flutter from whitest Queen Anne's Lace to purple thistledown; roadside attraction.......

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Categories: thistledown, nature,
Form: Cinquain



Abandoned Angels
...We played a lot of games, the stars dancing of their loud laughs. They seemed cluster of angels surrounded me with their songs too. I wanted to close my eyelids, to listen their innocent voi......

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Categories: thistledown, angel, caregiving, pain, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All Alone and Flower Fables
...pouring rooibos tea for no one but me. the high whistle would not be a sound if it was all alone. still, i set out three florid cups — to gratify Lily-Bell an......

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Categories: thistledown, beauty, drink, fairy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Hurt In the Coldest Night
...The cold hands of the night crept in from the walls, But hurts like the slave master's steel, And still, the shivers building up around my spine stung from within my glommy soul, Shattering my ner......

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Categories: thistledown, depression, love, night,
Form: Free verse
Goldfinch
...plumed gems flit and flutter from whitest Queen Anne's Lace To purple thistledown roadside treasure......

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Categories: thistledown, nature,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Massacre of Glencoe
...Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, a massacre took place in Glencoe, in the Hig......

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Categories: thistledown, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Freedom Is
...riding on a puff of wind thistledown......

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Categories: thistledown, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Gates of Hell
...The Queen of fairies fell asleep upon a bed of thistledown. And didn't notice the hours creep as she dreamt of a golden gown. She was to meet the setting sun, so she waited with bated ......

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Categories: thistledown, emotions, fairy, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Vaccinated Vine Street
...Blowing up On the thistledown tail Dancing in grooves Of Vulcans palm Printed in a horses ear Swimming in a fish's gills Cleverly caught To be spread on butterfly wings Shouting, “I want ......

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Categories: thistledown, allusion, america, angst, community,
Form: Free verse
Water Cooler Kiss
...His Velvet voice Rusty growl Gentle pauses caress the veiled swell Her secret beneath a tailored vest Radiant warmth spreads thistledown shuffles throug......

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Categories: thistledown, butterfly, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild
...The wild asses' rough hair Similar to their diet of briars and thistledown Kicking and braying and sit down A wild donkey was he Not understanding nor had sympathy Much like the wild ass......

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Categories: thistledown, nature,
Form: Free verse

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