A Precious Jewel
..."i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go..." ee Cummings
In the silent wondrous wonders of my yearning,
you appeared
as a lasting ...
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Categories:
tideless, love,
Form: Free verse
Fight For Your Love and Rights
...living in the flame
rideing on top of that tidal wave
the invisible waves, rushing through
the saltless hot beachy sand
Looking ahead as i saw that beautiful squeaky flippin dolphin
stars sp...
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Categories:
tideless, angel, deep, fairy, family,
Form: Free verse
True Love Waits - Two Sonnets
...Sonnet #1
A cloying scent this unrequited love
sad saccharine denial of its roots
harsh coo – the chortle of a fleeing dove
escaping from the nest of passion’s truths.
The fetid feel of limp...
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Categories:
tideless, betrayal, lost love, love,
Form: Sonnet
Gift Me Radiant Smiles
...Gift me radiant smiles and
And the beauty of a horse's neck.
Gift me glens of green,
Pastures pure, and distant tideless shores.
Gift me red velvet bows of Christmas spirit,
And happy-drunk un...
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Categories:
tideless, christmas, family,
Form: Free verse
Silence
...It's time for silence...
but a piercing voice rolls
through the valleys
It pitches unseen through
lifted eyebrows
And winds around
a cry for lost trinkets
dispersed in sandy winds
It rings ...
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Categories:
tideless, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Red Sea Recalled
...RED SEA RECALLED
Perim squints in sun without relief
Through its narrow windows
Towards the mirage
Of Socotra’s pearled reef
Red and shallow sea floor
With coral islets shimmering
And rainbows o...
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Categories:
tideless, sea,
Form: Verse
Emerald Skies
...Gazing deeply into her isles, beautiful oceans eyes...
Endless they seem these tideless waters; breathless
My heart frozen within, their aqua's joy; waves of her
Love, crashing upon life's reef; thin...
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Categories:
tideless, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Middle Distance
...You are now
as you were then
A figure in the middle distance
suddenly gone
And with the sand and my tears hot
I fought the knot of fear
that you wouldn't come back,
carried out by the tideless sea
Th...
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Categories:
tideless, death, father, loss, sea,
Form: Verse
Beach Picnic For Two
...BEACH PICNIC FOR TWO
Calm and tideless,
Warm and timeless,
Unsalted, undeep –
Warm Baltic half-asleep
Hot sand, hard pebbles –
Dark sparkling crystals
Heated and sunlit,
Ancient and...
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Categories:
tideless, food, happiness, wife
Form: Couplet
Flameless Smoke
...Like endless words
emotionally meant
Like tideless memories
erratically spent
Like dreams that weave
a few days content
Like flameless smoke
love lies dormant...
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Categories:
tideless, angst, lost love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Joy Elaine Wellington
...Joy, they named for themselves, the future's blind
Oyster to drink your sand. In salt tides love rises
Yearning to part the twinning shell and there resign.
Empress of the emerald seas, my ship ...
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Categories:
tideless, education, lost love
Form: Acrostic