An Idle Mind
...An idle mind is dangerous and bold
An idle mind is stories untold
An idle mind is lost in space
An idle mind is a slow embrace
An idle mind is doubt and fear
An idle mind is both far and near
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Categories:
unpaved, dream, introspection,
Form: Free verse
One bright star
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As I walked around this rusted mobile home park on a cold December night, with unpaved roads and the usual strays nowhere in sight.
I stopped to look up at the beautiful moonlight.
It was...
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Categories:
unpaved, inspiration, light, moon, night,
Form: Haibun
First Impression To Great Expectation
...Sometimes, those difficult road
Will lead you to beautiful places
The opening view receives bad comments
For the road is rocky, unpaved and dusty
Many who travel by are not comfortable
Some hope...
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Categories:
unpaved, engagement, happiness, life, nature,
Form: Narrative
In Bushkill, Everyday Is Like A Printanier's Sunday
...The sky is blue, clear, jovial and ethereal
To welcome with open heart spring which is
So beautiful, fresh, colorful, and at ease
Oh! It's a reborn again time which is real.
Oh! Friends, it's t...
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Categories:
unpaved, adventure, america, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Victorian House By The Small Dogwood Tree
...There stands the Victorian house
by the small dogwood tree I planted at the age
of nineteen thinking of a colorful spring;
what a subtle joy palpitating inside
at a short distance, before Lassie ...
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Categories:
unpaved, butterfly, dog, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
How in touch with Nature can I be
...Sun setting can I see nor a moonrise,
Tall towers nor let me see smiling stars,
Nor with sunrise, how moon melts from my eyes,
The dazzling light my eyesight always mars.
Smoke and dust make ...
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Categories:
unpaved, city, moon, nature, stars,
Form: Sonnet
That was Home
...The slum that birthed me,
Is where love and loss huddle close, side by side,
Shanty houses crowded, wall to wall,
Yet love’s essence bloomed, unyielding and clear,
Tin roofs, mud walls, unpaved s...
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Categories:
unpaved, beach, destiny, freedom, romance,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Field of Forever
...Written: April 14, 2024, For Silent One Forgotten Fields Contest
Rumi Verse: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul l...
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Categories:
unpaved, analogy, fate, flower,
Form: Free verse
In Springtime Everyday Is Like Sunday
...The sky is blue, clear, jovial and ethereal
To welcome with open heart spring which is
So beautiful, fresh, colorful, and at ease
Oh! It’s a reborn again time which is real.
Oh! Friends, it's t...
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Categories:
unpaved, beauty, friendship, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Some paths
...Unplanting a growing garden; uprooted what is normal in conformity
Destiny wove the cloth that led you down an unpaved path to me
In the realms of free will, some paths don't cross organica...
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Categories:
unpaved, beautiful, devotion, loss, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Heading Out
...A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight, a deeper breath that reopened them and myself to a blessed pleasing. ...
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Categories:
unpaved, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Narrative
The Collector
...Pens, and pen knives,
minor gadgets and gizmos,
chopsticks
old zippo lighters,
motheaten books
that crumble an old-fashioned wisdom
into the mush of a quaint twaddle,
words to muddle over
on ...
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Categories:
unpaved, poetry,
Form: Free verse
First To Third Light In 30 Seconds
...night yet clings
yet smothers the numb highway
breathe the wheel
sigh through the gears
wave-ride rubber after-shocks
follow the beam-eyed light
into the blossoming gray
adjusts to blackto...
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Categories:
unpaved, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The New Man
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He began
Much less than
The new man
With a plan
From Christ's clan
As he craved
Paths unpaved
Hearts enslaved
Not depraved
He was saved
What's New Poetry Contes...
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Categories:
unpaved, blessing, giving, god, jesus,
Form: Verse
The Rosy Heart
...At the road’s blind end at the edge of distant glen,
faded red arrows showed the unpaved pathway,
winding through thicket to the hidden rose garden.
Why charming rose was nurtured secretly far awa...
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Categories:
unpaved, analogy, birthday, heart, rose,
Form: Rhyme
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