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Night Nurse

...Her eyes are laden with drunken sleep, 
Silhouetted by lank, tired hair flimsier
Than the spine of an elderly, broken night.
Tattered, it buries the horrors of night;
Braided, it creases the rows...

Categories: traipses, tribute,
Form: Ode

When Sunset And Stars Shine On Sacred Ground - a Collaboration with Frederic Parker

...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...

Categories: traipses, beauty, garden, nature, night,
Form: Free verse

When Sunset and Stars Shine on Sacred Ground a collaboration with Susan Ashley

...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...

Categories: traipses, beauty, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Red Train

...From an aerial view, the sight of a beautiful red train 
chugging along down the railway track 
takes my breath away; 

One moment I am watching a funnel shaped smoke stack sending...

Categories: traipses, appreciation, fantasy, farewell, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative

How To Mellow

...Catch tugs towards their berth
  Little yacht traipses triangular trail
  Cottage clasping slope admires bay
  Fisherman’s wife swells, eon enamour
   

   For his boomerang voyage, she brings
...

Categories: traipses, adventure, beach, child,
Form: Free verse

Spectrum of Ignorance

...Arrogance rests on the spectrum of ignorance
Somewhat camouflaged by its superior air,
I surmise one requires huge gulps of intolerance
To maintain equilibrium teetering there.
“Pride...

Categories: traipses, feelings, pride, self,
Form: Sonnet

It Is Love

...It is love,
That gets out of a warm bed in the middle of the night,
Because the child had a bad dream.

It is Love 
That traipses up the hill with feet that are light,
To be by the sick bed of ...

Categories: traipses, baptism, beautiful, care, celebration,
Form: Personification

Wave Fest of a Lake

...From its own space  in pastels of morning
Our town's lake wheels beneath a hued cloudscape,
When day caresses and traipses inland
New sun unveiling an auroral drape.

How tides froli...

Categories: traipses, celebration, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Alliteral Storm

...Turgid tempest traipses slowly,
heavy thunder, hammers holy,
livid lightning lights the lowly.

Storm surges, striking sand-bar,
winds wailing, whipping wife’s car,
rain races to rills and rock...

Categories: traipses, fun, imagery, light, nature,
Form: Alliteration

Enter Prize Zine Wit 24 Tidy Lines

...of mice an men aye n'er doth quit
dialing countless times google 
   fascinating to this human caboodle ling kit upon porcelain goddess, 
most brilliant ideas congeal in me mind, and thou' loo pee...

Categories: traipses, allegory, beauty, celebration, imagery,
Form: I do not know?

Hidden Beauty

...Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus ...

Categories: traipses, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

They Are All My Children Part I

...Each poem I birth
Is a child of my heart
Flesh of my flesh
Bone of my bone
Word of my soul
Conveyor of my emotions

Each one is unique
Different….
One is always happy
And sees the bright side of life...

Categories: traipses, on writing and words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue