empty spaces
...Ghosts that haunt empty spaces
Like objects in cabinets
that drift on window pains
As light out places the things
left in the corners of
attics and In-between
the walls and hidden faces,
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Categories:
vases, allegory, art, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
What the Storm Splayed and Spared
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Dust taints scent of rain
the wind wrenches gate ajar
lightning splits the clouds—
grime streaks down marble headstones,
as silver names bleed deep red
bouquets torn and flung
petals smashe...
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Categories:
vases, grave, storm,
Form: Tanka
Heartbroken yet not broken
...“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” –H.C. Paye
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Categories:
vases, anger, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
My cutting vase garden
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Here is a poem request I wrote. It's for a lady who enjoys gardening and has great pleasure in keeping her vases filled with fresh flowers.Enjoying the beauty of nature.
Poem and pictures on my ...
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Categories:
vases, beautiful, flower, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
HYACINTH HANDS
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Hyacinth Hands
Mother, ego-cracker, birthed an embodiment of freedom plaited with slavery
petunia planter, marjoram with Malay curry and rice, yet scarcity her best perform...
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Categories:
vases, appreciation, birth, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Philippine Dwarf Sunflowers
...Philippine dwarf sunflowers
Beautiful, swarming all the way
A walk to go nicely looking
The flower seeds that was cast away
Now scattered blooming without end
Among the rocky greenfield
As far ...
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Categories:
vases, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse
beautiful modern hippie
...She knows her own heart, wears it well, shows it off.
People want to be with her, she has groupies.
They cannot wait to see her, every year, at the festival.
She is the pretty one with a flowered ...
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Categories:
vases, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances
...In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances,
Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time,
Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows,
While the s...
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Categories:
vases, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Drumrolls
...Samuel Woodruff was a very old man, who once drummed for the army;
That marched to his rhythmic music, along with all fifers, playing hearty.
That was a lifetime ago, in dawn days so pink...
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Categories:
vases, fantasy, march, memory, music,
Form: Couplet
in the moment
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flowers near the window
in bright yellow
a filmy white curtain
swaying in the breeze
late afternoon sunshine
bouncing off walls
a tea pot steaming
a tea cup empty
a book lyin...
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Categories:
vases, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Days
...Rainy Days
On rainy days celery sticks make
pillow forts, cookies eat
packs of
cards, test tubes learn
how to
draw, vases lip
sync Gloria Estefan songs, paper airplanes look at
old p...
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Categories:
vases, humor,
Form: Free verse
A Morning at the Met
...Today I saw Greek vases
And a room by Frank Lloyd Wright,
Lots of paintings by impressionists,
Which always bring delight…
Fancy furnishings and jewelry,
Some sculptures and stained glass,
An...
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Categories:
vases, art,
Form: Rhyme
Burning Bell
...We lay flowers on the grave
never gave them to the living
we put them in fancy vases
when we finally say I love you
a sundial whispers -it's too late
You think you've mastered forever
'til f...
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Categories:
vases, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
MEMORIES OF WAR
...MEMORIES OF WAR
In prison we turmoiled
packed up cards to fall
whilst they sucked
genitals like bonbons
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing
War torn ghettos with
swollen stoma...
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Categories:
vases, 12th grade, character, conflict,
Form: Bio
Rock and Water
...Interview With a Rock
I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb. Developing, growing, morphing through the epochs of time. Then, on no day in particular, I emerged into the sunlight....
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Categories:
vases, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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