Laura
...cry cry its pretty time
credit card eyelashes
equalize the load
spend the morning unrushed
head full of murmur
down Liechtenstein we go
open the window
face eastwards
to all those strangers
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Categories:
unrushed, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
It Is Just Soup
...
In the unquiet chamber of a kitchen,
where brittle leaves of thyme and sage sway
in unison, to the hot hum of convection
crooning softly from a stove of iron.
The guests hang waiting, by ...
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Categories:
unrushed, care, food, self, solitude,
Form: Verse
Long Ago
...
Breathless, like summer’s light
Erasing the night, reassuring
Souls with vibrant hues – so bright
Dreams stirred to life during
Joyous moments filled with insight
It is in the wh...
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Categories:
unrushed, appreciation, christian, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes People Share
...Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
...
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Categories:
unrushed, abuse, god, health, muse,
Form: Political Verse
Sacred Lakes
...
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished to...
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Categories:
unrushed, journey, love, magic,
Form: Romanticism
Ku Kops Klan
...With fascist fist, white CHAUVINist (whose christian name is Drek)
hailed pearly Knights in Kevlar tights who spurn the ebon fleck,
and joined the Kops enforcing stops which keep black pawns in che...
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Categories:
unrushed, society,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Father--
...Holy Father
Once upon midnight prayerful
The purposeful pontifical priesting
Holy Father
while I pondered, discipline and careful
I discovered the believers
I crave the evangelic, e...
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Categories:
unrushed, analogy, appreciation, god,
Form: Rhyme
Flee To Nature
...At times, I must flee routine and city work-life,
leave behind my daily schedules and office strife
to linger unrushed where nature remains untouched,
its splendid beauty neither man-brushed n...
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Categories:
unrushed, appreciation, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Say Hello To Rose
...Come to visit me at my home, and I'll introduce you to 'My Rose'.
S...
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Categories:
unrushed, appreciation, beautiful, flower, love,
Form: Sonnet
Though We Be
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Though we be separated by great distance,
many a miles the gulf between us
Our two hearts walk always together
Though your face I have yet to see,
your distant eyes look affectionately towar...
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Categories:
unrushed, devotion, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Mobile
...Life was simple and unrushed
There was a certain laze we had more time
Along came a device which took overnight
Our private time , deep into our lives
Denied the simpler pleasures of life
Make...
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Categories:
unrushed, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Bein' Busy
...Beautiful days.
Enchanting evenings.
Indulged, inspired.
Navigating naughtiness.
Busy being
Unusually unrushed.
Serenely sailing
Your yacht....
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Categories:
unrushed, happiness, water,
Form: Acrostic
First Flowers of Spring
...These first flowers of spring,
So brave and unafraid
Are the rarest, sweetest
And should never be touched,
As they must be free to
Emerge, unrushed, to rise
One day at a time, just
The way the...
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Categories:
unrushed, spring,
Form: Verse
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
...HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow...
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Categories:
unrushed, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Rainbow
...After the storm has passed,
Pelting rain has ceased, and
Ratchet winds have shifted into
Tolerable and non-threatening breezes,
Life resumes in an ordinary sense.
As grey clouds move east,
The sky o...
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Categories:
unrushed, change, life, nature, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
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