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Nature of Nature

...Plants, probing growth
Trees, tall and widespread
Shrubs, simply surprising
Herbs, healing wounds

Land, multiple in variety
Hill, high with rare plants
Mountain, with its ranges
Valley, vary...
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Categories: variously, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse

Pretty Paradox

...We are two flames,
Colliding and clashing,
Eroding our names,
Each other, slashing. 

Merging miraculously,
In some eternal timeline,
Vowing velvety love variously,
Flowing and floating as fi...
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Categories: variously, beautiful, beauty, deep, longing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTapestry of Life

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January 22, 2024
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Divergent viewpoints can arise
Whilst triumphant variously savor
Glorious tune of achievement,
Gain glo...
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Categories: variously, analogy, appreciation, beauty, dream,
Form: Free verse

Autumn

...This astronomical event
Molted out of summer sunbeams
Causes an herbaceous retreat
Personified as sleepiness

More darkness less lightness describes
This astronomical event
More coldness less ...
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Categories: variously, autumn, earth, seasons,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberTo the Kettle God

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The Four Obstacles
.
The first obstacle is Sleep
Or the lack of control over it
To be overcome by discipline 
The Body Mind neither deprived - nor overindulgent
.
The second obstacle is dis...
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Categories: variously, allegory,
Form: Concrete



The Will To Survive

...
"The Will to Survive" 

It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once 
our prepossessing future.

sands of time 
dragged under our bare feet 
while the ...
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Categories: variously, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberUmbrellas

...I could find in all of my short childhood,
No umbrellas around our neighborhood;
Farm-workers used palm leave woven structures,
That resembled head-gears said in scriptures...!

Our school lay l...
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Categories: variously, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Queen of England

...Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
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Categories: variously, appreciation, celebration, death, grief,
Form: Clerihew

Thirukkural

...Composed couplets 
Connoted every facets
Words of wisdom they're
World needs them forever
Be it a love or life
or when yours in strife
Just go through these verses
which certain...
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Categories: variously, books, wisdom, words, world,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Vogon Day of Work-

...vErY if often those of the Vogan after often:
Very variously visions mouth earrings on the feet;
Of the crushing ones;

ViCtoRy is never loss, trials won;
Various cillimeters away cra...
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Categories: variously, adventure, analogy, character, community,
Form: Vogon Poetry

Premium MemberTime Passages

..."Time is the thief you cannot banish."

                                   Phyllis McGinley, Writer,  1905 - 1978

Time Passages

I drift midst some pleasant sensation~~from a morning mist,
th...
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Categories: variously, time,
Form: Sijo

Sappho Fragment 2: How Can I Compete With That Damned Man

...Sappho fragment #2
translation by Michael R. Burch

How can I compete with that damned man
who fancies himself one of the gods,
impressing you with his "eloquence" ...
when just the thought of ...
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Categories: variously, girl, girlfriend, love, lust,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid

... After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decide...
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Categories: variously, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThe Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I

...(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of Ne...
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Categories: variously, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTranslation of Yesterday When I Was Young By T Wignesan

...Translation of YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
By T. Wignesan
(Written by : Herbert Kretzmer)

(Variously sung in a host of styles, moods and orchestration by
exquisite soul-movers like Roberta Fl...
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Categories: variously, joy, life, song, sorrow,
Form: Ballad

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