Unshaded Glades
...Unshaded Glades
In that distant land of remembered time,
I walked sunlit paths only lovers know,
With sharpened spirit and youth’s hope filled prime
In that fast fading past...
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Categories:
unshaded, memory, metaphor, nostalgia, time,
Form: Sonnet
A Sailor At Heaven's Gate
...Of all the times I spent at sea,
The most cherished was blessed night.
Beneath a laden luminous landscape,
Unshaded by harsh unnatural light.
Cast amid gently rolling waves,
With both eyes cel...
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Categories:
unshaded, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Light of Lesser Degree
...One does not look at the sun
unshaded, often how we approach
truth for the sake our children,
for the sake of the novice, nibbling
at the edges of faith.......
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Categories:
unshaded, feelings, growth, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
The Awakening
...Skylight unshaded and yet still it rests
Dark clouds impeding the sunlight’s ingress
To many it’s frightening, but in truth the lightning
May, this day, the catalyst be
This creature I’ve made ...
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Categories:
unshaded, halloween, parody, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Cholla's Legacy
...A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays of western tomorrow.
Time is played out i...
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Categories:
unshaded, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
After Glow
.... for public domain
After Glow
Having no holiday lights to glow,
I left my salt lamp light on low,
and went outside to the prairie road
to see what the nighttime sky would show.
Alas. The...
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Categories:
unshaded, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Unshaded Romance
...lipstick on his bleach white collar
in the shade of his wife’s blush
his pulse point still feels her breath
colleagues think he’s been fooling around
he ha...
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Categories:
unshaded, marriage, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Sunshine and Hurricanes
...Paradise:
Where healthcare receiving
is always as invited
as warm yellow sunshine
after a dark blue hurricane,
Where wealthcare giving
always begins with cooperative invitation
into vulnerab...
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Categories:
unshaded, caregiving, courage, health, paradise,
Form: Political Verse
Where Love Grew Collaboration With Poet Freddie Robinson Jr
...Where Love Grew
Beneath the maple tree
is where our love first started to grow
Green buds of unblossomed love,
basking in the golden dappled light
of spring’s awakening
A sweet kiss...
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Categories:
unshaded, love, tree,
Form: Free verse
Trees For Erosion
...I moved onto the farm when I was eleven,
To the farm eroded of trees.
I’d stand on the hill in the middle of summer,
Unshaded in a blistering breeze.
Then the winter shook hands and my work i...
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Categories:
unshaded, farm, success,
Form: Quatrain
Shade
...Thinking of one who is not under the shade of tree
Thinking of pouring the shade in the unshaded free
Looking the eyes trying to aid other
In the dark putting the light further
In the heap of...
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Categories:
unshaded, deep, tree,
Form: Couplet
Colours
...Colours
Would that the world was black and white
no colours, or their hues, to blur the sight
all things, quick sorted, left or right.
No nuance of the eye, or mind
nor deviation from the ...
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Categories:
unshaded, color,
Form: Verse
The Office of the Dull-Eyed
...Fling open these gates of purgatory
In the sharp corner of a deserted hell to see
Behold, the office of the dull-eyed in an overloaded ark
Nearly concealed by a screen of dusty cobwebs
This soul perc...
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Categories:
unshaded, how i feel, ,
Form: Free verse
Final Moments
...In his final moments
He clutched his sheet in fear
Staring at the wallpaper
He knows his time is near
The unshaded lightbulb
The dust around the room
Black mould in the windowsill
Adding to t...
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Categories:
unshaded, absence, death, loss, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbows
...She makes… rainbows sprout from her fingertips with every touch of my corpses flesh, her angelic
presence, bringing sunshine to my cheek with lips unshaded, her kisses, were full of sun beamed
pl...
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Categories:
unshaded, art, faith, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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