Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories:
unassumingly, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories:
unassumingly, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part One
...Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine tal...
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Categories:
unassumingly, fun, inspiration, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
None Great None Small
...It’s, for me, not nature’s just one aspect or the other;
But, each creature of nature is greater than the other.
An ant moving unnoticed under any leaf or flower,
Rolling food, even under feet of ...
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Categories:
unassumingly, animal, bird, creation, insect,
Form: Free verse
Humble Grandmother
...humble grandmother
unassumingly flawless …
murderess clearly
Written 3-18-2019
Contest: Writing Challenge 3 March 2019 Senryu
Sponsor: Dear Heart...
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Categories:
unassumingly, satire,
Form: Senryu
Trusted Non Trumpeting Flora and Fauna Emerge Out
...Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019
Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate ai...
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Categories:
unassumingly, adventure, angel, animal, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
The She-Wolf Was Prettily Dressed
...The she-wolf was prettily dressed,
Looked human in her human-clothes
None of the jurors could have guessed,
Unless they had her she-wolf nose.
Looking unassumingly sweet,
The she-wolf was pret...
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Categories:
unassumingly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatern
Top Ten Children Poems
...A Hint at What Is Beautiful :
Lovely is the 'bless your heart'
Wrapped with appreciation,
Offered to peace inclined individuals
Who make a special effort
To nurture shrapnel singed casualti...
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Categories:
unassumingly, 10th grade, age, cinderella,
Form: ABC
The Pieces of Peace
...The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night
Shredded for an aspiration
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank
Then comes the ...
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Categories:
unassumingly, political,
Form: Light Verse
Lies
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...and it laughed, a profound laugh, a laugh of anger, a laugh of hate
Waking in the dark, she lay thinking.
Sadness enveloped her as a tear left her eye.
T...
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Categories:
unassumingly, anxiety, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
...In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh, sympathize for your imminent demise?
Cradling you in my so...
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Categories:
unassumingly, adventure, confusion, courage, heart,
Form: Epic
A Beautiful Plant Is Like Having a Friend About the Place
...I feel at liberty having you here,
Sitting unassumingly,
In the corner of my lounge.
Free to cavort naked as my mother bore me,
While you remain firm and sure,
Spurning your chances to,
Remark...
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Categories:
unassumingly, analogy, best friend, care,
Form: Free verse
Goodnight, Sir Thomas
...Dear Sir Thomas:
Angels
never fly
too far away.
Cherubs
are
pious messengers
cloaked in
ribbed-serpentine
streamers;
bathing
themselves
in a bemused
shower
of rainbow-lit
banderoles.
Stifled...
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Categories:
unassumingly, dedication, friendship, life, love
Form: Free verse
Early Falling Leaves
...Autumn is not technically here
But it has arrived nonetheless
With brown crisp maple leaves and their
Imagined conspicuousness.
Each with its own conformation:
Some taking forms of tortoises
As...
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Categories:
unassumingly, imagination, nature
Form: Rhyme