Building a Rill
...I filled a small trench that yielded fresh water.
Built as a serpentine and with a sharp corner.
A small waterfall sang a melodious sound,
A lulled sleepiness induced when it hit the ground.
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Categories:
waltz around, flower, water,
Form: Sonnet
Precious Moments
...“I don’t have to ponder my precious moments that always give me heart to carry on.
So firmly implanted in my heart, I will never let them go, never will they be gone.” The Poet
Memories of : As...
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Categories:
waltz around, memory,
Form: Narrative
Star-Crossed Lovers
...Written: September 1st, 2023
Star-Crossed Lovers Poetry Contest -- Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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Categories:
waltz around, analogy, appreciation, love, star,
Form: Rhyme
Awaking a Thirst
...awaking a thirst, filling me from above
with whispers of unforgotten love;
the pounding of drums as your name lingers
on mine own lips displacing rainbow sweet hues.
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Categories:
waltz around, i love you, memory,
Form: Lyric
Cosmic Dance
...gliding sliding meandering
traveling in stride
skating graceful in mid air
worlds engage as whirlwinds
their twirling churn
in their incessant dance
galaxies waltz around while
unrehearse...
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Categories:
waltz around, dance, space, stars, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Fleeting Time and Oak
...My woods, my gentle comforters stretch to no confines but blue and to the sun. They surrounding me in shaded blankets, but unholding in the unbridled sense of it.
It’s to my special spot I seated ...
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Categories:
waltz around, analogy,
Form: Narrative
The Air I Inhale My Lullaby Tale
...As a child, under the infinite sunless night;
I used to lie on a bed of thick grass
in the front yard just to stare up at night
and its uncountable flickering stars.
The cool breeze t...
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Categories:
waltz around, child, childhood, poetry,
Form: Prose
On a Collision Course
...worlds collide
as whirlwinds
twirling churn
in their incessant dance
galaxies waltz around while
unrehearsed a minuet of stars
bounce where winds may blow
meandering
gliding sliding
on the...
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Categories:
waltz around, dance, fantasy, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
I'd Like To Feel Something Again
...in whirl and twirl we waltz around
feeling guised and chastised
raising brick laden walls
going 'bout our daily business
foiled and desensitized
plagued by the veil of apathy
once spring arri...
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Categories:
waltz around, angst, anxiety, confusion, longing,
Form: Free verse
Marat and Charlotte 2
...Act 2. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
It's all a blur. It’s all a little dizzy.
I just have dreamed a scary dream as if
two vagabond philosophers robbed me
and killed. I must ad...
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Categories:
waltz around, death, love,
Form: Blank verse
Memories of My Dad Pt 1
...I remember standing on your feet to dance with you, when I was a little girl,
I remember how you taught me to waltz, around the dancefloor we would twirl.
I remember watching you dance with Mum and...
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Categories:
waltz around, bereavement, dad, daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
I Am Your Wave
...I am Your Wave!
There you were all peaceful in "trance",
here I came with a frolicking dance!
Down you brought, the stars of night,
I just Flickered their light!
That magnificent smile, with d...
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Categories:
waltz around, love, nature, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Crowded Rooftops
...Keep it to yourself and keep looking around
Do you need to be there?
Can you see the light under the neon?
Can you read the lips of the gaudy?
Change is sitting there somewhere
With a glass, wea...
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Categories:
waltz around, change, drink,
Form: Free verse
Turn It Up
...When my bipolar gets me down,
I do not take a med.
Crank up a disc of Johann Strauss;
that gets inside my head.
I have been known to dance and hum
and waltz around the room.
That gay and hap...
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Categories:
waltz around, me,
Form: Rhyme
Abstract
...abstract masterpiece
star-spangled strokes of color
waltz around heaven
Written Feb. 21st . 2016 for “Instant Telegram - Poetry Contest.”...
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Categories:
waltz around, beautiful, color, imagery, imagination,
Form: Haiku
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