Water Wheel
...Don't love deeply
Till you are sure
Whom deeply so.
How deep your love
Is how deeply
Wounds tomorrow.
Whom you cry for
Is deep down there
Your heart long for.
Soon tears stop
If heart...
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Categories:
water wheel, emotions, love, sorrow,
Form: Than-Bauk
returning home
...the old mill reposes in the middle of the peppered autumn trees
spruced up under the jurisdiction of golden, yellow, red, maples
the scene cannot be captured in a photograph, it is soul searing
My...
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Categories:
water wheel, home,
Form: Narrative
The Eight Spoke Water Wheel
...A Quote By: Drama Queen Workshops
Karma even when you're not aware, it is present,
active, and responding precisely, always...
We live in bondage caused by our past views and...
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Categories:
water wheel, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Chowder Horn For My Dad
...Our roots run deep into the Philadelphia bells of acoustical waves of your musical melodies, sound in my distant ear, the sailors storm on the wooden ferry I ride, into the depths, of a swamps crossi...
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Categories:
water wheel, adventure, appreciation, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
River
...Hear the rough rippling river roar
As above agile eagles soar.
To briefly be a water wheel
And convert energy I feel,
I would compose some stirring songs,
And make a mighty sing-a-long,
So wild...
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Categories:
water wheel, appreciation, joy, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Accepting Losses Andt
...that's what it is to be a slave
but now you know the truth
and are no longer blind
outcomes are known
history cycles like a clock
it is discrete and you are not
less than this being lodged in t...
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Categories:
water wheel, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
A Weekend With the Grands
...First the ride (with kids' CDs)
Then supermarket (mini-cart);
Buying lots of food to please
Then snacks and playground, for a start.
Books and Curious George on tape,
Dinner, Face-Time Mom & ...
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Categories:
water wheel, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Millstone
...At the heart of the gristmill in common
is the millstone:
A matched pair of matched round stones, one over the other.
Below is a bed-stone base, abeyant and prone
Above is the runner whetstone,...
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Categories:
water wheel, life, work,
Form: Free verse
The Whips of History - 1
...This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simpl...
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Categories:
water wheel, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Last Time That God Lost His Faith
...I was there, the last time that God lost
His Faith. Admittedly, since the death
of His Son, there have been a few bad
years that could have influenced His
decision. He sent a note to the sel...
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Categories:
water wheel, bible, god,
Form: Free verse
Back Yard
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Water wheel running
cascading over slate rocks
the water pours fast
down the mini waterfall
into the large pond below.
Gold fish are thriving
nine fishes swim in this pond
from the gazebo
w...
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Categories:
water wheel, happiness,
Form: Tanka