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...When at dawn I find three stones at my
Doorstep, I smile at dawn
Prayers, in haste, come to my lips
My eyes rove wantonly and behold a
Poet caressing a naked virgin.
When at dawn I find three ...
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Categories:
wets, africa, culture, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
When The Bed Burns
...Tongues of solar flare writhe in combat kiss
—flame-throwers unleashed
iron words h a m m e r e d in fire
ferrous words melt as heart-welts once under skin
hear the fevered...
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Categories:
wets, conflict, fire, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of the Ca Surfer
...The Ballad of the California Surfer
Early morning waves rise high
Looking like it touches the California sky
While surfers glide through morning waves,
Sun shining down on the sand
As ocean...
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Categories:
wets, ocean,
Form: Ballad
Dionysus Markets Asphodel
...Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.
So many burden...
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Categories:
wets, dark, myth, mythology, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Loverboy
...Loverboy staring out the window, the stars gleaming so prettily
The meadow's bathing in silver light of the moon; it is such a perfect night
Loverboy sighs at the darkness, candlelight dimming as t...
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Categories:
wets, beautiful, dark, fantasy, lost
Form: Free verse
WATER
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Water,
a word that passes...
a scarce memory
when it is missing...
a current that comes together,
that wets with joy
and gently marks,
It is...
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Categories:
wets, allusion, analogy, blessing, extended
Form: Free verse
The Human Seasons
...Four seasons fill a year’s fullness of time
and fills the core of human shell and gourd -
in that season of youth’s Spring balm its prime
will reap the honied hive of years endured.
And ...
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Categories:
wets, life, perspective, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
In a garden of shadows and lights, where thoughts bloom like hydrangeas under the moonlight
...In a garden of shadows and lights, where thoughts bloom like hydrangeas under the moonlight,
Should I trust in feelings that dance like the wind among the leaves of unfulfilled dreams,
Or in the mi...
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Categories:
wets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Eucharistic Flame
...The Eucharistic Flame
A Metaphysical Poem
O Sacred Fire, O Bread of Light,
Thy essence veiled, yet burning bright.
Within this chalice, gold and pure,
A cosmic truth the meek endure.
I ta...
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Categories:
wets, 4th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Forgiveness
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In your eyes I see anger reign,
you splutter words like acid rain.
Sane sense turns to ash in my view,
as I discover myself new
I don’t drag you in pit of hate,
don’t blaze in reve...
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Categories:
wets, anger, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
A Valentine In London
...My Valentine has a ticket to ride;
So London town beware!
New wings will carry her up north;
A pass to Leicester Square.
Let Big Ben toll and chime aloud;
St James's Park prepare;
The hustle o...
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Categories:
wets, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Hopeful Hearts
...Old wishes carried into the new year,
Former desires brought into the new year,
Dim lamps longing for brightness in the new year,
Incomplete books searching for the missing pages in the new year,
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Categories:
wets, desire, new year, old,
Form: Free verse
Palindrome: Dumb-old-dork of Exports
...Mom spilled hot stew, wets a pal, lap short-shorts,
Dad yelled its hot, loop pool pop dive exhorts,
Mom says not that sort of hot,
Pip, spi...
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Categories:
wets, confusion, father, friend, humorous,
Form: Limerick
WATER
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Water,
passing movement,
scarce memory
when there is no shortage...
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Categories:
wets, allusion, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Pearls Of Rain-Andaree
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As the melting clouds descend down to drench you,
why rave rupture wets you, you’ve no clue.
Sheen flows on onyx tress train,
grains of glow remain
soaked in sleek
rain,
pours in s...
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Categories:
wets, analogy, beauty, rain,
Form: Rhyme
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