Consider the Finer Things
...Come, let us together consider the finer things
Like mystical pyramids and fringed silk scarves
Stones that bring comfort to the aching bone
Intricate ebony statues the lonely man carv...
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Categories:
threadlike, beauty, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Spider Web
...a
long
fragile
spidery
silver threadlike street
crossing in nature's G.P.S.
like those swinging bridges in gentle wafting breezes
temporary avenues to more hospitable environmental...
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Categories:
threadlike, environment, insect, nature,
Form: Fibonacci
I Am the Wordsmith, Guide and Editor
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"Dark-heaving . . . boundless, endless, and sublime . . ."
Lord Byron 1788-1824
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I am the wordsmith, guide and editor of this narrative,
this epic chronicle and ...
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Categories:
threadlike, dark, death, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Darkness Steals
...My heart quite deep within me quakes
when darkness steals the sky.
The night rolls out its raven cape
and stars from shadow, fly.
Gray threadlike clouds adorn the deep
and look down as to spy....
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Categories:
threadlike, earth, moon, night,
Form: Quatrain
Keep Singing Solomon
...I tried to write a poem the way that Solomon wrote about his prize,
But you don’t seem to fit the mold you don’t have a pair of flighty eyes.
And evidently he liked the fact and it seems that...
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Categories:
threadlike, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse
The Lodger
...Blighted
And strangled
By a parasite-
Heather'slife withered
away
Note:The red threadlike dodder lives upon the heather plant...
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Categories:
threadlike, nature
Form: Cinquain
Earthly Colors
...Terra cotta, craggy rocks
Scattered boulders, building blocks
In shades of sienna, ochre, buff
To form this high and hilly bluff
With sunlit ledges thin and wide
Place for hyraxes to sun and hid...
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Categories:
threadlike, inspirational, life, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme