Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...
of diverse and sundry sizes engaged
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide t...
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Categories:
ursa, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Gateways of Bahdur
...Remote to the walls of intelligence, a civilization is defined without a typographical position
Entrance to the society is marked with long, gargantuan red gateways that extend high
High as if touc...
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Categories:
ursa, 12th grade, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Home
...Haibun
Inky dark night. Jewels in the heavens sparkle like diamonds in a necklace. The Seven Sisters wink seductively while trying to sit in Cassiopeia’s Chair. Orion chases Ursa Major and her cu...
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Categories:
ursa, sky,
Form: Haibun
Night View
...Night View
I sit by the fire with a lone lamp,
dimmed, so my eyes can watch the
astronomical wonder above me.
A small mesquite fire to warm my bones
in the chill night air.
A new moon to not...
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Categories:
ursa, night,
Form: Ekphrasis
Freedom in the Starry Night
...Midnight and,
far from my town's bright lights
in darkness of sky, I find solace
in darkness of sky, I seek freedom
I looked at the glittery trail of stars
the satellites moving as if stars ar...
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Categories:
ursa, night,
Form: Free verse
Ursa Major
...Ursula, oh Ursula
As constellations go
Ursa Major in the sky
Forever do you glow.
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Onto a world you gaze upon
Your perch upon a star
Lovingly you're watch...
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Categories:
ursa, appreciation, longing, space,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to Polaris
...Polaris, Star of Ursa Minor
among her suns, you are chief shiner.
Commonly known as Pole or North Star
you guide navigators from afar.
Can you also lead and guide me
as She who led the Magi Th...
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Categories:
ursa, analogy, christian, jesus, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is a Poem
...I’ve heard it said that poetry is dead
But I don’t believe that’s true.
It runs in our veins like water to rain
Somewhere inside me and you.
It’s up in the air, in circles and squares
And ocea...
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Categories:
ursa, beauty, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Moscow I
...It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
t...
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Categories:
ursa, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Stench of Insomnia
...THE STENCH OF INSOMNIA
narcoleptic deities in charge of the world
are tangled and detangled in the threads of time
they are sardonic and bitter and out for revenge
alien me...
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Categories:
ursa, addiction, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
An Ocean of Stars
...She loved the evenings lying in the grass next to her dad…looking up…enjoying the view
He would teach her all about the stars…everything he knew.
He’d point up to Polaris, the North Star and tell...
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Categories:
ursa, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Stargazer
..."If stars define destiny then they are at the right place as I got to meet you."
Once in a town lived a stargazer,
Gazing up high,
Looking up for patterns in the sky,
Tracing o...
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Categories:
ursa, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Callisto
...Callisto, the chaste, was Artemis’ ardent acolyte,
Daugher of Lycaon, was most beauteous and fair.
Zeus, besotted, imposed his Divine Right,
In Artemis' guise he seduced Calisto without care.
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Categories:
ursa, mythology, sky, star,
Form: Pantoum
Navigator
...Many accept things just as are,
Where so fate ferries, there they are.
They look for boat nor yet for oar,
But search for a navigator.
Their life seem Arundhati* star—
In a star string Ursa ...
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Categories:
ursa, fate, star,
Form: Couplet
Whispering Wings
...Whispering Wings
Playing heartstrings,
Bringing hope,
Like antelope
Playing on the savannah.
The goddess Diana,
Keeper of nature,
Directs Ursa Major
The great bear
To keep us from despair....
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Categories:
ursa, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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