Montreal - Apr 29
...O’ Mother!, take me back at last, receive
—(unclasped arms as vast as mine)—my embrace;
this longing, laughing love, the proof and grace
of my abiding for your shores.—I grieve
the lasting los...
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Categories:
unshadowed, celebration, happy, home, immigration,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Dear Governor DeSantis
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Though I am not of this modern age,
Permit me to address you from my humble page,
For I have walked among the stars and seas,
And Florida's plight now calls out to not only me.
The swelling t...
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Categories:
unshadowed, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
In the world of long shadows and fragile light
...In the world of long shadows and fragile light,
where every step, every whisper casts reverberations into the abyss,
creators of illusions, weavers of dreams,
lead the masses with their cunning an...
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Categories:
unshadowed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Unshadowed
...I'm glad we're friends
You really do
Change my mood
To fresh and new
The strangest thing
My heart receives
Like sunlight for
Unshadowed leaves
I give you time
No chore for me
I think I ...
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Categories:
unshadowed, friendship love, happiness, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
A Hero's Welcome
...Bring forth the heroes of today,
Stalwart soldiers armed with resolute aim.
To battle the forces laid against us,
Those destructors of worlds and minds.
Bring forth the principles of yesteryear...
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Categories:
unshadowed, america, dedication, devotion, hero,
Form: Free verse
Yspirfal
...Yspirfal across the sky
Awake now with a loving light
For I have summoned thee with song
And I have shaped thee to belong
In facets of eternal night
Where alor hath made the dim seem bright
Hys...
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Categories:
unshadowed, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry
...POETRY…
Poetry – two sticks with which to interrogate a frog, hold up a cardboard box in quest of pigeon’s freedom. A petal-less flower weeping in an early frost, a squirrel hiding acorns he will...
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Categories:
unshadowed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
It Has Not Always Been
...This piece is my thought alone. If it upsets anyone good, because we women need to fight the internalized Patriarchy which has colonized our thought for thousands of years.
it has not always been
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Categories:
unshadowed, anger, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Follow Your Heart
...Magic breathes life in our hearts
Destiny resides in our souls
Our path now shimmers unshadowed by the night
With one embrace partnered by a tender kiss, the bounds
of time and distance cru...
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Categories:
unshadowed, america, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
The Dead Poet
...The Dead poet---lord alfred douglas
I dreamed of him last night,I saw his face
All radiant and unshadowed of distress,
And as of old, in music measureless,
Heard his golden voice and marked him t...
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Categories:
unshadowed, death, poets,
Form: Free verse
Lass
...Lass,
Unblemished by submission,
Familiar beyond Miss,
Unshadowed your smile,
Your modesty of kiss,
Love's early morning -
Yet to come the sun-clear day....
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Categories:
unshadowed, love,
Form: Blank verse
I Saw Columbia Rise
...I saw the Columbia rise today
Majestic through the skies
A fire burning burnt nothing away
A wingless bird before my eyes
And this ship that bears that name
Of the greatest captain who
Sailed...
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Categories:
unshadowed, life
Form: Quatrain