A Cottage Garden
...When yellow crocus wake to welcome day
Beneath the trees a splash of glowing gold
And purple primrose cast a rich display
While honeysuckle vines uncurl, unfold
For me, I know no more a w...
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Categories:
uncurl, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Gavin, Help Me
...Gavin, help me.
Your innocence is coveted now, you see.
I’ve fallen for this girl.
She’s got hearts in a wild twirl.
Noah, help me.
This courage runs away through the trees.
I’ve fallen for t...
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Categories:
uncurl, anxiety, change, crush, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Seventh Seascape
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O souls of the Island,
I have silently
heard through
tropical torrents
and surpassed
a million miles
of the milky seas,
away from
mint-marine
silhouettes of my
utopian wond...
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Categories:
uncurl, emotions, fantasy, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Finding
...On a damp Sunday, where the grass and earth
Call my name, out from the tangle of covers
On the humid wind, the forest beckons
With her arms of fallen leaves, twigs
Ferns uncurl
My heart is...
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Categories:
uncurl, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fall Into Love
...true love is what we fall into
it's music always thrums
nightly I sleep entwined with you
then when the morning comes
wake up sleepy dream girl,
softly stretch and uncurl
I taste your...
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Categories:
uncurl, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Space of Time My Own
...Tiny new, soft green leaves,
Yet full of baby wrinkles
And winter sleep,
Uncurl and stretch,
Clinging to mother branches,
Basking in the unaccustomed
Long-awaited,
Sun-filled warmth.
Bird c...
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Categories:
uncurl, appreciation, metaphor, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Limber Seniors
...Yoga positions
pretzel launching pad, painful
crowd wilts from fitness
senior endurance
festiness charges living
folks uncurl, relieved
Senryu composed August 7/21...
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Categories:
uncurl, age, encouraging, endurance, inspiration,
Form: Senryu
Germination
...Ah, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom
of spring to summer fall to winter
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at once both self-reliant and reliant
my soul to embryo seed ...
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Categories:
uncurl, birth, faith, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Performance
...Motion's mementoes --
babe's tiny fingers uncurl
centenarian's eyebrow raised
the sun darting behind clouds
an earthworm's tortuous wiggling
performers all, a broad panorama --
seeking appr...
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Categories:
uncurl, meaningful, mystery, remember,
Form: Free verse
Rebirth
...This year’s been so long. So long to Winter!
With blinding shaft and bright bleeding of sun,
the limbs of trees, like flames, trust their tinter.
Unfurl the soulful buds, ye Holy One!
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Categories:
uncurl, christian, spring,
Form: Sonnet
The Lichen
...The lichen clings to his trunk
Like she has for ages
Holding fast, curling tight
In pale green companionship
The oak tree smiles down at her
Craggy smile, chafed and gnarled with time
To ...
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Categories:
uncurl, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Jagged Side
...The Jagged Side
We’re not just polar opposites.
We exist in neighboring galaxies.
Still, I’d rather have my dancing soul
crash on your rocky surface
than to rain down my light
on a starless ...
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Categories:
uncurl, love,
Form: Free verse
Bridgette the Deer Whisperer
...Deer whisperer, had a full schedule, for she was trusted by so many.
She examined reindeer, elk to baby fawn, giving attention and love
They were brought by their kin and neighbors with nary a whin...
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Categories:
uncurl, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Velvet Caress - Lyric
...
Sing to me with your light
my parched soul loves you
I'll uncurl my silky tresses
to let your fragrance brew
Let me weave from dreamy raindrops
a blank...
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Categories:
uncurl, dream, love, song,
Form: Lyric
Grows the Night
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Grows the night as moonlit waves swivel
to unravel submerged mysteries,
dark fears uncurl into sapphire hopes,
lustrous divine chandelier on pier.
Grows the nigh...
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Categories:
uncurl, mystery, night,
Form: Verse
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