Purple Dreams In Other Realms
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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, ...
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Categories:
whimsies, appreciation, children, december, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Stir
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Written: February 28, 2024
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Mayhem prevails as calm dries and stirs rise.
A ruckus erupts as words and deeds blend.
Oh, the wrath, rela...
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Categories:
whimsies, analogy, fire, riddle,
Form: Sonnet
When The Sun Said No
...The first chirp of the robin near my shut window pleaded
The blackbird, song thrush, chiffchaff, and pheasant pleaded as well.
The sunflowers, cornflowers, and marigolds that needed
Prayed for his...
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Categories:
whimsies, nature, sun,
Form: Sonnet
Playing with a Pantoum
...A newly shaped poem is composed
Of themes both rare and common.
The poet’s thoughts, it is supposed
Will flow to paper without caution.
Of themes both rare and common-
Candid expressions, as p...
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Categories:
whimsies, education, fun, poems, poetess,
Form: Pantoum
In Simple Lines Poetry Comes
...*** In Simple Lines Poeetry Comes ***
(“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life…” Walt Whit an, “Leaves of Grass”)
My lines —
My life...
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Categories:
whimsies, beauty, feelings, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Covid Nineteen New Year's Eve Wish
...To be swept higher and higher
On the breeze of a pink-salmon dawn
Troubles and cares? Swishhh
All gone!
And what’s this?
I’m neither young nor old
I’m eternal and glowing
Ecstatic and bold...
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Categories:
whimsies, allusion, fantasy, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Georgehenge
...The ancient stones stand silent
As they have throughout the ages,
Keeping their seasonal assignments
As the world around them changes.
Thousands of years pass
And old stones become f...
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Categories:
whimsies, places, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Melancholic Melodies
...memories unfurling
on the shores of time
calligraphy strokes
tracing wild whimsies
of my yearning heart
curling frayed remnants
between the fingers of
forgetfulness forlorn
both glass slipper...
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Categories:
whimsies, autumn, dark, heart, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Influence of God
...Hold me in your eyes,
look upon me in tender interlude
embrace me in the center of your dawning light.
Let your essence speak
and whisper sweet nothings
- or - stirring somethings
to my soul
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Categories:
whimsies, appreciation, change, god, growth,
Form: Free verse
Moonwash
...Wisping winds whisk whispered whimsies willows’ way.
By the pond, we ponder potent possibilities posed by pollinated passions.
As we divine dallying delights depicting developing days,
Moonbeam...
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Categories:
whimsies, destiny, future, love, moon,
Form: Alliteration
Tinted Glass Whimsies
...Tinted glass whimsies
Seductive slowly spun
kaleidoscopic pairings
changing in illumined awareness,
tinted glass whimsies
“How far can you bend the light?”
Sculpting tem...
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Categories:
whimsies, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Nothing More Or Less
...hid insecurities within
ambiguous humor &
convoluted whimsies,
rules consistently changing
in a game which required
hardly more than breath,
nothing less than obscurity
twisting a...
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Categories:
whimsies, allegory, day, deep, emotions,
Form: Carpe Diem
Poetic Gist
...Poetry is the air I breathe,
lifeblood trickling 'tween
luscious marrow in my bones,
existentially rooted crux reflecting
Amen's utterances & hallelujah certainties
'round reality's ...
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Categories:
whimsies, addiction, allegory, fire, muse,
Form: Prose Poetry
Absolutely Mad Poetic Rhetoric
...Persuasion's possessive verses
'midst absolute poetic madness
surrendered in rhapsodic poesy,
poets are a tidy sum of quirky &
care zilch of external perceptions,
content to breathe 'round seduc...
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Categories:
whimsies, allegory, humanity, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Prose Poetry
Boudoir Antics
...He was poetically intolerant,
she thought herself an Emily
writing sonnets 'how do I love...'
he indulged her feeble whimsies
in light of other finessed talents,
essentially, larks amidst boudo...
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Categories:
whimsies, allegory, hyperbole, poetess, poetry,
Form: Imagism
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