A Zeal for Dawn
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Written: January 29, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Wild is the dawn, clad in lace and slight sheen.
The deep rose...
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Categories:
title inspired, appreciation, longing,
Form: Didactic
TIEN - the 10 word form
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We all,may find the Son ,to light our way!
My Tien form is a sentence of ten words of one syllable, no title inspired by Chidiock Tichborne first line of his 'Prime of Youth'...
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Categories:
title inspired, christian, poetry,
Form: Epigram
DIFFERENT SHADES OF BLUE
...Shine like a sky
in this world where you were put on,
filled with different shades of blue.
Sometimes, it's baby blue
like the eyes of Maria,
staring directly at you,
like wanting to devou...
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Categories:
title inspired, beauty,
Form: Free verse
First Love
...December eighth is
Immaculate Conception's
Day of remembrance
Immaculata--
"Beauty is the thought of you"*
You're "the world's First Love"**
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Bitesize ...
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Categories:
title inspired, beauty, first love, mother,
Form: Haiku
Is Ra Ill Question Mark
...Salome just loved gingerbread
But Herod misheard what she said
Who wants a dead head
To bounce in their bed?
So she dashed to the John instead
*Title inspired by Special Charact...
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Categories:
title inspired, bible,
Form: Limerick
Calico Tequila Sunrise
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How do cats know what we need?
It's so chilly this morning, here in
oh so still, golden, wine country.
I'm lying here snug on the couch.
Santorini-blue quilt, iPad, coffee,
writing poetr...
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Categories:
title inspired, autumn, cat, imagery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Yummy
...(title inspired by the Justin Beiber song)
Baby, you're like pastry
Shimmering
In florescent light
I want to caress
Your creamy chocolate eyes
Grab you
Taste the sweet jelly filling
Insid...
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Categories:
title inspired, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Away From Me
...Where are my memories
Where have they gone
New images come
But do not last long
Fear of loss fades with each passing day
As my memories lie still in decay
My journey is unknown to me
As ...
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Categories:
title inspired, political,
Form: I do not know?
We'Ve Got a Groovy Thing Goin'
...Who needs a your highness or sire?
Hillary and Jeb should retire
Though them we can chuck
The needle is still stuck
As behind the curtain’s a liar!
Author's note: Title inspired by Sim...
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Categories:
title inspired, humor, sad,
Form: Limerick
She's Wet
...When she gives a cough or a sneeze
Some wee trickles down past her knees
Her knickers are damp
She smells like a tramp
Dashing home so nobody sees
TITLE INSPIRED FROM A COMMENT BY ARTH...
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Categories:
title inspired, humorous,
Form: Limerick
"...The Voice of the Turtle"
...It must be springtime
for she lumbers by her nest
below the fig tree.
Hatchlings soon appear
to scamper into the sea.
She cries out to, "Watch
for eagles above!"
then turns away; her voice...
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Categories:
title inspired, devotion,
Form: Haiku
Goodbye Is the Hardest Word
...One Day i'll see US smiling in Our Land....
Does it make a difference if you wake up to find me gone?
One less little lady in your heart on this new dawn..
Does it make a difference if i leave ...
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Categories:
title inspired, loveday, me, heart, sweet,
Form: Free verse