Buttered Fields
...Buttered Fields
It was early when she was tickled awake
as light eased under the eaves
to trickle through a sigh of curtains,
to whisper across the bedroom floor,
to nudgingly nestle beside h...
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Categories:
waggling, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
GEMUT APOCALYPTICUS
...GEMUT APOCALYPTICUS
Terrain to thy welcoming, clapsing
As the sky in fear of the rage, gasps
Oh to devour the devourers tasking
Prepared for thee Oh apocalis
The blue in time so lovely
I co...
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Categories:
waggling, anger, character, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Stories of Missionaries
...Missionaries were cunning
Not less than a cat’s eye fixed on a meal with a waggling tail
Curiosity extended in those that heard them speak.
With a thorned crown of dead porcupine.
A pagan king an...
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Categories:
waggling, community, confidence, culture, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
The Rider the Magpie and the Horse
...Tears from the horse eyes are longer than a pane of glass
Tears from the horse eyes are piercing the riders heart
He mounts the horse with courage and confidence
And leap a thousand meters toward...
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Categories:
waggling, courage, endurance, environment, journey,
Form: Narrative
Little Red Kite Nursery Rhyme
...Little red kite,
little red kite
It's sunny and bright
Fly high in the sky
Fly low in the meadow.
Little red kite,
little red kite
Let’s chase the sunlight
I’ll hold your string
And make...
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Categories:
waggling, childhood, joy, song,
Form: Rhyme
Conducting An Imaginary Orchestra In the Passenger Seat
...i've seen it several times
someone motioning, flourishing
waggling, swinging, curving
hunching, moulding, stooping
pulling shapes, a twirling
a form, a delineation, shadows
fingers, tree branch...
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Categories:
waggling, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Kite
...KITE
Graceful buoyant in flight
Me the black-breasted Kite
Broad in structure, yet body light....
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Categories:
waggling, 8th grade, appreciation, bird,
Form: Personification
Part of the Deal
...You know you will cry
when your pet dog dies
The tears will overflow
It is selfish to feel
you need more time to steal
So hard to let them go
It's not that they made you feel loved
It's th...
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Categories:
waggling, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Spanish Guitar
...When will she learn to play, to rise the spirits?
Ancestral spirits yearn for the old glories -
Where forth the strength occupies vacuum;
Despair filled it well!
Let's dance to the sonorous voi...
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Categories:
waggling, conflict, confusion, depression, grief,
Form: Free verse
Cladestine
...THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left ...
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Categories:
waggling, corruption, death of a
Form: Prose Poetry
I Got Nothing For Christmas
...Christmas was coming very soon and a little boy's heart was glad.
He kept giving clues daily of his wishes from Ole Santa dear.
His Dad with a twinkle in his loving eyes teased his young lad,
Now,...
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Categories:
waggling, cheer up, christmas, father
Form: Rhyme
Daydream
...I once had a dream,
Of a paradise wide,
Under the blue, hue sky;
Over the green grass dry,
Wishing past as the turquoise stream.
I once had a dream,
I was a silver knight on a unicorn...
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Categories:
waggling, childhood, dream,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I Searched For Noah's Ark
...The gulls are soaring
Diving for food they’ve located
The beach filled with dead crabs
I am a sailor in the night watching the star
confuses my mind so tired....so tired.
White clouds coveri...
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Categories:
waggling, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hanging Around
...In Granny's backyard
I'm hanging around
upside down
from my favorite tree
making funny faces
at my cousin, while we
try not to laugh
because down below
the circle of grown-ups
hardly know
o...
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Categories:
waggling, childhood, family, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Wee Willy Wagtail
...I wish I was a wee Willy Wagtail.
I've always wanted a tail to wag,
and Willy, really struts his stuff, just so.
With a wiggle waggle
a parry, on garde, touché!
"Now that's a Tail!"
Willy Wa...
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Categories:
waggling, animal, bird, word play,
Form: Free verse
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