Look Closer
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A calligraphy, a veined post-script
for the rusty sheen of mortality.
Behold the dying and the replenishing,
the glory of the shedding and investing.
All this upon a forest floor.<>
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Categories:
veined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ego systems
...Artist - derelict and drifter
move about like windblown bones
bathing in the dry veined riverbed stream
fashioning crafts from a lifetime of dewed memory
weaving ends that tend to never meet
the...
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Categories:
veined, earth, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Soul Rose Fulcrum
... my soul-rose has a fulcrum
sometimes
veined petals spread a c R o Ss
skies unknown
thorns ready
for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionat...
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Categories:
veined, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Free verse
When I Visited Lemuria from Atlantis
...When I crossed the violet bridge of thought,
From crystal-veined Atlantis — I was caught
By Lemuria’s breath, warm like a sigh,
Where mountains hummed and stars walked by.
There were no towers,...
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Categories:
veined, future,
Form: Free verse
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
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twelve of us he choose to paint
sons of Jacob in an earthen
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells
skull protecting scrambled
delicacy
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Categories:
veined, allegory, art, character, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
Where is the frog
...Stained glass marvel completed within six months
Delicate iridescent hues, light as a faerie’s veined wings
I am thunderstruck by my talents; this was my first attempt
Listening to others' comment...
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Categories:
veined, art,
Form: Free verse
Mr Ragged 2024
...Mr Ragged 2024
The unsteady slow winter moon,
trudges towards a freezing night;
riding on winds back,of shadows feint,
blowing out the days diminishing light,
It i...
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Categories:
veined, abuse, addiction, death,
Form: Free verse
OF A SINGLE VOTE
...He stood, somewhat defiantly,
Among the “well” dressed
Frayed pant cuffs
Missing a button on his flannel
Well-worn shoes
Gnarly, veined hands
He would vote today
It is his duty, his privilege
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Categories:
veined, voice,
Form: Free verse
How Ohio Came to Fame
...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface,
it is already colonized
by moss and fungi factories.
Eventually all will churn
green spawns to green lawns,
not yet of course, ‘yet’ has t...
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Categories:
veined, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Leaves
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in the autumn breezes silent trees shed their leaves
in shades of vivid yellow, orange, red
purple, brown, and maroon
and the many hues 'tween
they ru...
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Categories:
veined, autumn, color,
Form: Free verse
Gold-Veined Marble
...On the heights, in marble stands
a temple wrought by hopeful hands
to please the one, eternal king;
to sacrifice and praise and sing.
Then the night ... dark witching hour.
Marble cracks from ...
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Categories:
veined, faith, god, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Black Veiled Wolf
...Old means sudden pain of unknown origin
fluency of mind becomes like a foreigner.
Old means the circle has shrunk to a point
Old is ignored, like a newly minted orphan.
Old is when the glitter ...
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Categories:
veined, age,
Form: Free verse
Who's a Saint
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I read a poem about
a mother, a saintly mother,
who, with knotted and veined
hands, crocheted blankets
and booties and mittens
for grandchildren,
who made lemonade
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Categories:
veined, appreciation, care, family, introspection,
Form: Free verse
faeries flower
...this new found flower was a combination of delight and joy
delicate, veined and fuchsia like an orchid
with teeny tiny white faerie daisies in the center
I did not know the name, but it was from G...
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Categories:
veined, flower,
Form: Free verse
three faeries bring joy to the meadow
...three faeries with beautifully veined transparent wings arrived at midnight
Not unlike Pan who had been there before, they brought happiness light.
Their mission was to add some levity and joy to t...
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Categories:
veined, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
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