Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
...Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered m...
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Categories:
tunefully, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
What's Cooking?
...It’s taboo to be lonely on Valentine’s Day...
I’d love to come over and cook, if I may.
We can eat lots of noodles
and make apple strudels,
and musically, tunefully yodel, ‘Ole’
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Categories:
tunefully, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Lets Rhyme
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Written: November 24, 2023
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Seraphic sand is sapped on the seashore
As swirling waters swallowed the load roar.
The roiling ...
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Categories:
tunefully, analogy, appreciation, river, sea,
Form: Monorhyme
In Memoriam Quietly Always Close
...In Memoriam Quietly Always Close
Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
Over the granite crosses and statues of cradling angels,
Which stand in...
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Categories:
tunefully, grave, heaven, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Exit Strategy
...To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled
echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale
silent sacred pause
for Earth's final soliloquy
Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,...
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Categories:
tunefully, age, appreciation, death, grief,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
California Dream
...Cruising southwards to LA from Sac
a midnight filled with songs ‘n Luna,
light-etching hills in a black infernal…
It was a leviathan’s back on which I
felt the tires unrolling a chilled grief ...
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Categories:
tunefully, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Reach Out
...Reach Out
In sailing the fastest tack is a broad reach,
Sails both billowing and bird's wings,
Wind pushing, lifting, hull raising to plane screech,
Physical Therapy gleams & tunefully sings,
By...
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Categories:
tunefully, boat, endurance, health, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Whistling Wind In My Hair
...tunefully tousling
where I go you shall follow
summertime caress...
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Categories:
tunefully, hair, nature, nice, song,
Form: Haiku
The Drummer
...Beats are like that,
you know….
they can jazz the soul,
bump the heart, and get
one’s feet ceremoniously
tapping—fingers snapping:
for sure, I am a Thumper,
Banger—Slammer, first
on skins, ...
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Categories:
tunefully, age, freedom, inspirational, music,
Form: Free verse
Pristine and Pure
...Pristine and Pure
The winding road led to a chasm deep
below a cliff that proudly shows the view...
a silken, blue-green lake, lays like a gem
of opulence embedded in the rim
of tall, lush eve...
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Categories:
tunefully, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
Melodies of the Heart
...In a black and white world,
feathered fingertips caress
ebony and ivory keys -
melodically forming a myriad
of vibrant and vivid hues,
diversifying dulcet emotive reflections.
In a w...
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Categories:
tunefully, analogy, love, music, romantic
Form: Free verse
The Bumble Bee
...The Bumble Bee
Value the industrious bumble bee
Working all of the teeming daylight hours.
Fertilising crops for you and for me,
Taking pollen from the sunlit flowers.
Flying on the ...
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Categories:
tunefully, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Footprints
...Your footprints are obvious at Christmas time,
In the snow, their size and their angle,
Which puts in the back of your mind,
Where you’ve been, your life’s history and tangle.
Becoming a qu...
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Categories:
tunefully, character, childhood, children, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Earth At Night
...A suave gaze, woolly texture, embellished its gaiety gesture
The charmeuse moon, perched like a napping heavenly dove,
Clothed by swarms of floating stars, glazing its snowy allure,
Glimpses from ...
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Categories:
tunefully, earth, nature, night, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Spring
...Amidst the budding
branches the Robin sings, the song is
carried tunefully in the spring air.
denoting that all is well in his world
Every sound listened to by all
from tiny field mice scurrying...
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Categories:
tunefully, celebration, spring, daffodils,
Form: Abecedarian
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