Peacock
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Prince Pastoral Peacock it must be our lucky day
Elect to spread your plumage erect a fine display
Pivot proudly a tailpiece of fancy feathers fanning
A crest of blue-green eyes omniscient p...
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Categories:
trousseau, bird, tribute,
Form: Alliteration
Midwinter Night's Dream
...Midst sullen storm and winter's grip,
Secure and warm I toddies sip.
By fireside glow my thoughts take wing.
While watching snow, I dream of spring.
Spring's swimming pools, azalea shrubs,
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Categories:
trousseau, april, beauty, dream, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Weep Willow Weep
...Weep willow weep your weary winter woe
At the sight of your icy, new trousseau,
Above the frosted brook, a mirror faux
Her reflection was horribly so-so,
With rigid branches laced in flakey snow ...
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Categories:
trousseau, change, cry, nature, seasons,
Form: Monorhyme
Fairy Glisten
...Faerie Glisten heard the news of the disaster
She tried to fly their fast, but her sister was faster.
Together they held up lights, trying to save as many as they could.
They stayed out in the wat...
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Categories:
trousseau, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Chipmunk Poses For a Pix
...chipmunk pauses under blossoms of spring
pondering her future?
anticipating an enemy?
planning her trousseau?
expecting a model’s fee?
No matter.
She is captured in time, by the whir of a but...
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Categories:
trousseau, animal,
Form: Free verse
Married To the Voice
...I’m wed to my Poetry,
betrothed to the fire
Each word an incendiary,
burned to inspire
My voice the rekindling,
fueling the scream
The ashes my trousseau
—a smoldering dream
(Bryn Ma...
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Categories:
trousseau, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Secrets
...A lady of a certain age whose life you think you really know
she lives her life with secrets and some of these appear below
On the surface she is brusque and rather bumptious, never smiles
but d...
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Categories:
trousseau, crazy, deep, lost love,
Form: Couplet
May It Be Said
...The kingdom of knowledge
to its crown we are wed
Its light our betrothal
its heavens our bed
The words ever regal
trousseau not to beg
Thus will it be written
—thus will it be sa...
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Categories:
trousseau, words,
Form: Rhyme
Mom's Trousseau
...mom's trousseau
embroidered pillowcases
his and hers
posted on June 18, 2018...
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Categories:
trousseau, home, hope, longing, love,
Form: Senryu
Took Her Trusseau
...Took Her Trusseau
Looked great wherever she would go
And this I must make sure you know;
Feature identifying;
She was supplying;
We could always tell by her trousseau.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
trousseau, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Aurora Borealis
...You dance in your trailing trousseau,
Barefooted in the dark of night,
The distant side of the moon,
Leave speckled stardust looms,
Weave intricate patt...
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Categories:
trousseau, analogy, beautiful, beauty, dance,
Form: Free verse
Shattered Dream: a Bride Story
...Come near me, my love.
Come and hold my hands.
I've been merrily waiting for you.
Can you hear that wistful piano sound?
Everyone had gathered, prayers are spoken.
Come near me, my love.
Come ...
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Categories:
trousseau, death, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Model
...Within your bedrooms closets
you did our trousseau bring
the garments fit for marriage
joining virgin to the King
Every thread hand woven
its tensile put to test
the secrets of your dressing
withi...
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Categories:
trousseau, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Verse
When Faith Transcends I Suck At Titles
...wind chimes invoke serenity upon the vessels
of insouciant souls
but even with every woo of the wind an
unrequited howl echos though an empty abode
as we dress our iniquities in a trousseau of ...
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Categories:
trousseau, passion, god, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Fallen Rogue......Entry Into Contest, Act 1 Scene 1
...He sits and mourns and weeps within the Willow trees. A sodden forlorn form,
alone in his own company. bemoaning fate as destiny's joke. While keeping in his
cups. An addled mind won't show t...
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Categories:
trousseau, funny, lost loveheart, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
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